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Caught in the Net: And I Cannot Lie

Ah, the noble butt. I’ve been thinking about butts (well, more so than usual) ever sense I learned the adjective “callipygian” — which means to have a beautiful or well-formed ass. (As opposed to having an ass that is cacopygian, naturally.) Since I believe in using my preoccupations to pay the bills, I hereby devote this column to that most spankable, strokeable, intermittently lickable body part, the ass.

Let’s kick off with Slate.com’s That Darling Derriere (a history of the buttocks in fashion, mostly, and with pictures, naturally), from bustles to Bettie Page to Catwoman to Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” to tramp stamps to butt lifts. There’s an emphasis throughout on Kim Kardashian, whose shapely backside is arguably more famous than the rest of her . . .

But Kardashian apparently didn’t bother to enter the international Show Me Your Sloggi competition, dedicated to finding the best damn asses in the world. Check out the site for the world champions in the nice-ass-Olympics, along with snapshots of winners from various countries. Mmm, love that Latvian booty. There’s a video of the final competition, too.

To find asses in the wild, as it were, you might try the Butt Hunter photo pool on Flickr. Features over a hundred candid and posed ass shots, from the beautiful to the, well, cacopygian. For sheer quantity, though, it’s tough to beat this giant-ass photo gallery (that is to say, the gallery is giant; the asses are mostly not).

Beyond their inherent aesthetic appeal, asses are popular for selling things as well — consider Perrier’s ass-tastic campaign, and other gratuitous ass ads, from American Apparel to jewelry to online services.

Lest we forget, asses are art, too. Fundación Canal, a gallery in Madrid, hosted an exhibition titled “Ocultos,” featuring asses by various great artists, including Man Ray and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others.

Finally, no discussion of the ass and the internet can be complete without a link to a video of Jonathan Coulton’s acoustic cover of classic rumpshaking song “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot. What could be better, after all, than the famed combination of an LA face with an Oakland booty?

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