Hot Victorians: The Sailors

A while back, I introduced you to the awesome historical thirst trap Instagram page Hot Victorians. I showed you a smattering of the men from a bygone era, from historical figures to gangsters, working men to men of science. And a few in-between. Why do I love this page? I think for me, it's the amount of real men who lived a life, and how they look so much like me and my group of friends. Men with facial hair, scars, and a sexual glint in their eyes. Men with families, lovers, and a penchant for taking off some of their clothing. And men who look just as hot while not removing anything. And if I may be frank, there's just something about the clothing of the time that puts a tingle in the groin!

So now that you've seen a sampling of the men to view, let's start narrowing our focus a bit. For this round, I bring you Hot Victorians: The Sailors!

Now here's a look between two men that can't be denied, in this painting "Marins" by Finnish artist Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (1854–1905). Two men at sea, a fading sunset, sharing a quiet moment. Which one will make the first move? When I first read the classic novel Moby Dick with its sometimes not-so-subtle homoeroticism, I was told that often men went to sea because they would be working and living outside of a country's legal jurisdiction, and sodomy laws.

Basically, what happened at sea stayed at sea!

This photo of a group of sailors from the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts (photograph taken between 1896 and 1901) is pretty much a sailor aficionado's wet dream, or daytime spank bank material! What's curious to me is how the prettier twinks, clean-cut and seemingly younger, are all seated in the front row, while the seemingly older and gruffer men with facial hair all stand behind them. Are they blatantly showing us who were the tops and who were the bottoms? For my money, it's the back row, the proverbial cake!

This group of seamen from the USS Oregon, commissioned in 1896, is decidedly rougher looking, willing and able to take you out, take you down, and put you out if you looked at them wrong in the dark of a seaside bar while on leave. Wait, are we taking fighting or fucking? Eh, why not both? The ship was most notably used during the Spanish-American War of 1898, and it looks like these hotties saw their share of action.

Here's another look at more manly men of the USS Oregon.

This young stud's name is not known, but he was photographed sometime around 1890 in Kingston, Jamaica. He's got it all, sexy facial hair and the dull gaze of a decidedly unfancy man who just wants to do his work, drink his drink, and lay with his...partner. I bet if you met up with this guy in an alley during shore leave, all it would take is a pint of whiskey or about $20.

The tintype of this American sailor from around 1860 shows a man who is wearing the fuck out of that uniform! He is stylin', with his thick hair and detailed facial hair!

This magnificent specimen of manhood is a sailor of the Imperial Russian Navy and the battleship Tri Svyatitilya, built in the 1890s. I simply have no words for how hawt this man is. Take me in the name of Mother Russia!

And finally...

I'll just leave this one with no comment. Enjoy!

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