LOVING THE BUNS AND YOU
Day 2 of THE BUBBLE BUTT ISSUE
A little BEAUX HOMMES self-help for people who appreciate beauty—and refuse to apologize for it.
Welcome to Day 2 of THE BUBBLE BUTT ISSUE.
Today, our advice is simple:
Keep strong. Know what you like. And never be ashamed of appreciating beauty.
At BEAUX HOMMES, we spend a lot of time talking about bodies. Muscular bodies. Curvy bodies. Athletic bodies. Older bodies. Younger adult bodies. Male beauty, female beauty, and all the wonderful variations that happen between one human being and another.
And during the Bubble Butt Issue, yes, we are paying particular attention to one feature.
The buns.
Big ones. Muscular ones. Round ones. Athletic ones. The kind that make a beautifully tailored pair of trousers work overtime.
We can laugh about it because attraction is allowed to be fun.
But there is also something worth saying seriously.
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LIKE WHAT YOU LIKE
Somewhere along the way, many adults were taught to feel embarrassed about attraction.
Don’t look.
Don’t admit you noticed.
Don’t say that person is beautiful.
Don’t acknowledge desire.
BEAUX HOMMES takes a different position.
There is nothing inherently shameful about looking at another adult and thinking:
Wow.
Beauty has always fascinated human beings. Artists have studied bodies for thousands of years. Sculptors shaped marble into idealized figures. Painters studied shoulders, backs, hips and legs. Fashion designers learned how clothing moves around the human form. Photographers built entire careers around the way light falls across skin.
Admiration did not begin with social media.
It is part of human culture.
And appreciating somebody’s appearance does not automatically mean reducing that person to a body.
You can appreciate the body and respect the person living inside it.
In fact, you should.
THE BUBBLE BUTT IS NOT A MORAL CRISIS
A beautiful backside does not require a congressional hearing.
You noticed it.
You’re fine.
Maybe you prefer broad shoulders.
Maybe you love hairy chests.
Maybe legs get your attention.
Maybe it’s a beautiful smile.
Maybe you appreciate a BBW woman in an extraordinary dress.
Maybe you like lean men.
Maybe you like enormous bodybuilders.
Maybe your particular weakness happens to be a man walking away from you with glutes that appear to have their own gravitational field.
We understand.
The point is not that everybody should find the same things attractive.
The point is that adults are allowed to have preferences without turning those preferences into shame.
APPRECIATION IS DIFFERENT FROM ENTITLEMENT
There is an important rule.
You may admire beauty.
You are not entitled to possess it.
Attraction does not eliminate manners, boundaries or respect.
The attractive stranger across the room remains a person.
The bodybuilder in the gym is still there to train.
The beautiful woman in the restaurant does not owe anyone attention.
Enjoying beauty and respecting boundaries should never be opposing ideas.
That is grown-up desire.
See beauty. Appreciate beauty. Behave beautifully.
KEEP STRONG
And we don’t mean only physically.
Physical strength is wonderful. Train if you enjoy training. Build your legs. Work those glutes. Lift intelligently. Eat well. Recover. Take care of the body carrying you through this life.
But strength also means being comfortable enough with yourself that you don’t have to ridicule what somebody else enjoys.
A straight man can acknowledge that another man is handsome.
A gay man can appreciate a beautiful woman.
A woman can openly enjoy looking at muscular men.
A bisexual person does not need to choose which form of beauty deserves appreciation.
A person over 50 does not suddenly lose desire because somebody changed the number on a birthday cake.
And somebody who doesn’t share your particular taste doesn’t need to.
Confidence doesn’t demand agreement.
LOVE YOUR OWN BUNS, TOO
Here is where the self-help part really begins.
The Bubble Butt Issue cannot only be about admiring somebody else’s body.
How are you treating yours?
Too many people spend their lives comparing themselves with images designed to represent exceptional bodies.
That muscular model may have spent years training.
The woman with extraordinary curves may simply have a completely different body type from yours.
Genetics matter.
Age matters.
Health matters.
Lifestyle matters.
None of that means you have to surrender.
It means your goal should be your strongest, healthiest, most confident version of yourself—not somebody else’s body pasted onto your expectations.
Train because movement makes you feel alive.
Dress because clothing can be joyful.
Groom yourself because you deserve care.
Stand straighter.
Take the photograph.
Wear the shorts.
Go swimming.
Walk into the room.
You do not have to achieve somebody else’s idea of perfection before participating in life.
BEAUTY IS BIGGER THAN PERFECTION
One of the reasons we created the Bubble Butt Issue is because beauty can be playful.
Not everything needs to become a serious ideological argument.
Sometimes a magnificent body is simply magnificent.
Sometimes fashion is fun.
Sometimes attraction makes us smile.
Sometimes somebody turns around and suddenly the entire editorial meeting has lost its train of thought.
Life contains enough difficult things.
We are allowed moments of pleasure.
Art gives us those moments.
Music does.
Gardens do.
Architecture does.
Food does.
Fashion does.
And yes—
beautiful people do too.
NO SHAME IN IT
That is today’s message.
Admire responsibly.
Desire honestly.
Compliment respectfully.
Train intelligently.
Dress confidently.
And never allow somebody else’s discomfort with beauty to convince you that your appreciation of it is something dirty or trivial.
Human beings have been painting, sculpting, photographing, dressing, celebrating and falling hopelessly in love with one another’s bodies since civilization began.
BEAUX HOMMES is not about to pretend otherwise.
So on Day 2 of THE BUBBLE BUTT ISSUE, we leave you with this:
Keep strong.
Strong enough to know yourself.
Strong enough to respect other people.
Strong enough to laugh.
Strong enough to appreciate the ridiculous splendor of the human form.
And strong enough to say, without embarrassment:
“Yes. That’s beautiful.”
No shame.
Never shame.
Always love beauty.
LOVING THE BUNS AND YOU
Self-help for people who know what they like.
THE BUBBLE BUTT ISSUE — BEAUX HOMMES