Far hotter than any spicy curry, sexy tattooed muscle stud Kashh is from India, and flexes over at gay adult site Manifest Men. I also note he wearing a bit of a gay fashion favourite, at least here in Sydney, with some faabulous G-Star Raw jeans ..

I know that technically I have already posted my usual three eye-candy posts above, and I would then post my usual five news and other stories below. But when the pictures are this HAWT, with porn stars Adam Killian and Mitchell Rock captured by Justin Munroe, then I just have to make an exception. M'kay. It's my birthday, and I'll purve more if I want to. And you can see even more (totally NSFW) pics over at Beautiful Magazine.

What do we think about when we say Dark: Darkness in the sense of no light? Darkness in the meaning of evil and without spirit? Or do we associate it with sensations of lust, secrecy and intimacy? Photographer Pierre-Yves Monnerville took the latter approach with his Men In The Dark series.

Ed Hardy swimwear model Daniel Conn is also Mr. January in the Gods of Football Calendar!

Italian photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri is now 70, but he has produced a massive collection of remarkable work — particularly his collaborations with Taschen for the books Madagascar, Equator and — our main interest today — Tahiti Tattoos, a fantastic study of Polynesian tattoos published in 1998.