Category Archives: Shirtless Male Celebrities

Since I’ll be on vacation when this goes up, I’m pre-populating today’s posts with shirtless, gratuitous, lascivious, scrumptious, delicious, and anything-but-tedious men. They’re all in the archives (which, if you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you can access by month when you click on the drop-down menu located appropriately beneath the ‘Archives’ label.)

Kicking up the smutty quotient were bad boys like Eddie Cibrian, good guys like Nick Youngquest, and former-strippers-turned-fake-strippers like Channing Tatum.

There were quirkier choices like Andy Samberg, Simon Cowell, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

And then there were the evergreen classics ~ Ryan Gosling, Harry Judd, Anderson Cooper, Daniel Craig,

He’s already been named a Hunk of the Day, but Zac Efron and these photos merit a gratuitous almost-shirtless post here. Note the hand placement. And the bat. And the ball. I’ll grant him this: he knows his target audience, and where to hit them. (Remember: he’s been caught with his hand down his pants before.)

I pose the question with this in mind: I personally find neither Bradley Cooper nor George Clooney hot. ‘Hot’ is highly subjective, deeply personal, and largely a matter of taste. It’s different for everyone. I can see attractive qualities in both, and they are definitely handsome men – they just don’t scream ‘hot’ to me. Especially George Clooney.

For years he was the standard of what a sexy male should be – and I never got it. That stupid Caesar cut, that smug smirk, and that ‘I’m-so-hot-I-don’t-have-to-try’ air just never appealed to me. Yet everyone else wanted to eat him up. His humor, though – that is certainly appealing. I just don’t think humor alone is enough to achieve the adulation he enjoyed a few years ago. (Would that it were so…)

I get the same vibe from Bradley Cooper. While I can appreciate his cuteness and admire the sparkle of his eyes (is it a slightly gay sparkle to anyone else?) I still don’t get the big appeal. But that’s the great thing about attraction – everyone wants their own thing. And thank God – because otherwise most of us would be alone.

(For the cynical, this is totally just an excuse to post some sexy photos of Bradley Cooper and George Clooney, because most of my readers enjoy a shirtless male celebrity.)

It normally gives me great joy to see Adam Levine without a shirt on, unless he happens to be revealing the fact that he totally shaved his chest hair off and resembles a plucked chicken now. Men: stop the merciless razor. It doesn’t look good. Even if you’re Adam Levine. Especially if you’re Adam Levine. If you don’t believe me, check him out with a little more fur, and a lot less clothing.