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Amazon and their suppressive anti-lusting regime! 
I write non-fiction. I'm just here for the...research. *grabs popcorn*
Dwayne wrote: "Because if he showed it, it would be in the humor section?"LOL!
ROFL! I must confess that I have picked up a book or clicked on a side ad to read the blurb because of those pics. (Shame on me!) But alas, some things are even too hot for me.***You guys crack me up sometimes!**
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Not entirely my idea. Actually, it's what they told me the time I posed for a series of steamy romance covers.
It also might be because they want to seem as though they're leaving a bit to the imagination, since the six pack is already blatantly out there.
Are there actually a lot of books with nice hunky half-naked guys carrying beer on the cover?
I just want to know what happened to the rest of them. I worry that somewhere out there in the universe, there is a planet completely populated by bare, tribal tattooed torsos with no head or legs. The poor dears.
Micah wrote: "Are there actually a lot of books with nice hunky half-naked guys carrying beer on the cover?"Hehehe. It took me a while to get this. The shame. :p
Tara wrote: "I write non-fiction. I'm just here for the...research. *grabs popcorn*"LOL
On a slightly more serious note (I'm so sorry) for my erotica I moved totally away from that type of cover. Looking through Amazon I was amazed by the number of books that this one author with the bare male torso on the cover had written. Then I realised it was one book per author. All with a very similar cover.
Because of prudes. That's why their bits must be concealed. I picked the raw material for my naked torso-guy cover off of Pixabay, which may explain how many of them are out there.
I asked my own naked torso-guy who he feels about all this, and he didn't have much to say as he has no head, but his physical reaction and gestures showed interest. I think he's considering some tribal tattoos, and I'm considering learning sign language.
I got my spacey planet picture from Pixabay.
They have to put their hands down there in case someone looks at the book from the bottom. Never know what you might see.
Micah wrote: "Are there actually a lot of books with nice hunky half-naked guys carrying beer on the cover?"Rofl, clever word play, there!
They SHOULD have him holding a bottle of wine to cover his junk. I would be sold!
Oohhh ***Off to create a salacious cover for a book about wine***
Rohvannyn wrote: "I asked my own naked torso-guy who he feels about all this, and he didn't have much to say as he has no head, but his physical reaction and gestures showed interest. I think he's considering some tribal tattoos, and I'm considering learning sign language.It's so lovely that you've learned to communicate so well.
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I've started a relief fund for them. Please donate generously. We desperately need Thigh donations.
C.B. wrote: "I've started a relief fund for them. Please donate generously. We desperately need Thigh donations. "I've got plenty to donate. Do they need hips by any chance?
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C.B. wrote: "We always need hips, because they cannot lie."Bahahaha XD
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I assume that it is because the models are actually Ken Dolls.
Just what I needed to finish off my night... now I'm laughing so hard I doubt I'll get to dreamland. Or if I do, I'll have visions of headless torsos filling my head. Thanks a lot! ;)
Jessica wrote: "I'll have visions of SEXY headless torsos filling my head."I gotchu ^_~
Dwayne wrote: "Because if he showed it, it would be in the humor section?"I like Dwayne's point of view. ;)
Also, The model probably puts his hands there because it is the same man posing on every picture and well he'd be recognizable by his tiny teeny little weenie. ;)
I've been thinking (dangerous I know) and I have come up with a theory.The poor headless torso has lost so many of his bits that he's protecting the Crown Jewels as fiercely as he can....
It's all he has left. That and his six pack, and soon enough he'll guzzle that down.
Dwayne--LOL!!And I agree with G.G. Sometimes they look as if they take steroids, and you know what that does to the luggage.
Groovy wrote: "Dwayne--LOL!!And I agree with G.G. Sometimes they look as if they take steroids, and you know what that does to the luggage."
Yes, it's always so disappointing when the picture doesn't truly represent the product. Perhaps dislaimers are in order. Photo may or may not represent the quality of work inside.
This is what happens when you cram a bunch of writers together. Tons of imagination and witty comments.I won't be surprised at all if I soon find a book on floating torsos of a forgotten planet, where warrior ladies are trying to make them whole again while fighting an evil king, who spares no effort to steal their replacement parts for his own vanity, or something along those lines. It would probably be the first Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Romance/Erotica book of its kind.
Cheers fellow writers, you are indeed a remarkable group. I'm proud to be part of it.
I rest my case. Nothing else surprises me when it comes to a writer's imagination. Alex, my friend, I will stand in line to review that book.
Yay for all of us with our odd (and often filthy) minds.I met one of these washboard-bellied hunks once.
*yawns just remembering*
Alex wrote: "Jane wrote: "Yay for all of us with our odd (and often filthy) minds.I met one of these washboard-bellied hunks once.
*yawns just remembering*"
I've never seen the point of a six-pack, they al..."
Rolf. Well said! But are you talking orgies? Teehee
And I enjoyed reading this thread! *still laughing*
Alex wrote: "I'm too shy to take part in orgies, I'm the guy with the camera so everyone can watch the bits they missed later."Take a deep breath and jump in Alex. You might even enjoy it...
You gotta have a hunky guy...I put a shirtless scene in all my romances
I am DYING laughing right now. I went to Twitter to check out what was up, and I saw a contest for romance writers. The prize is to be published, apparently. Anyway, what was on their mockup cover? A shirtless guy on a dark background, with six pack abs and hands over his junk.*rolling on floor laughing so hard I might shoot peppermint flavored chocolate out of my nose*
What happened to the old days when a romance novel had Fabio on the cover in a white shirt or shirtless holding a woman in his warm embrace? Psh..they don't make em like they used to.
Justin wrote: "What happened to the old days when a romance novel had Fabio on the cover in a white shirt or shirtless holding a woman in his warm embrace? Psh..they don't make em like they used to."Fake butter commercials pay better? ;P
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Christina wrote: "Justin wrote: "What happened to the old days when a romance novel had Fabio on the cover in a white shirt or shirtless holding a woman in his warm embrace? Psh..they don't make em like they used to..."FABIO!
Justin wrote: "What happened to the old days when a romance novel had Fabio on the cover in a white shirt or shirtless holding a woman in his warm embrace? Psh..they don't make em like they used to."A cousin of mine actually DID date Fabio (for real). He ain't all that from what I heard (I skipped the family reunion where he made an appearance).
A total momma's boy. ;D
A new genre hunk thing I have been seeing (the number of hunks I am forced to look at on you lot's behalf is positively horrifying) is the bare chested hunk with one random piece of clothing. And mostly he still has his hands over mister happy....
Haha! Jane you crack me up and I guess I am one of the guilty parties cuz I just posted sparkly abs the other day! Hahaha! I go out of my way not to put abs on my cover because I think it's overdone but you know! They are still nice to look at! ;)
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*shrug* The only hunk I've put on my covers is myself, Jane. I didn't want to, but I paid myself a huge sum of money and could not refuse.
Dwayne wrote: "Jane wrote: "A new genre hunk thing I have been seeing (the number of hunks I am forced to look at on you lot's behalf is positively horrifying) ..."*shrug* The only hunk I've put on my covers is..."
Be still my beating heart. :-)
There's an allure to things left up the imagination, I think, rather than having it all out there for the world to see. Although I find the covering-the-man-bits images rather tacky. Just have him wear pants without a shirt. Let the imaginations run wild and free!
lol I just saw one earlier where the man was covering himself with again in his hand. It was... interesting
When a book cover depicts a nice hunky half-naked guy with a six pack, why does he almost always have his hands in front of his gentleman's luggage?
It's a worry...