We became familiar with CharlesFred’s through Tumblr, where their photos of Turkish wrestlers were common material shared by accounts dedicated to publishing images of hot guys. Since then, the 272-page Flickr account has turned into an important source of reference photos when we feel like drawing men with different facial features, far from the boring homogenization of what’s considered beautiful on platforms like Tumblr or Instagram. With an increasing presence of AI-generated hot guys, CharlesFred’s photos feel like the product of another time, almost refreshing. Here is one of his series dedicated to what we think are Turkish wrestlers showering after a match.
We do not know much about the authors. We assume they are a couple living in Amsterdam, maybe of British origin, and frequently travelling to the Middle East, which draws attention to the type of men is usually portrayed in their photos. We’ve lived in the Netherlands long enough to know that there are certain types of features that Western Europeans find attractive on Middleaster men. This account is a perfect example of that gaze. Do people in Oman find those men also attractive? We don’t know. Yet, we have to thank CharlesFred for shamelessly taking hundreds of photos of all the types of men they were horny for.
