Lurid Digs, the infamous website that appeared during net-porn’s infancy, is ready for its comeback.

Prior to the site’s official relaunch this spring, the Lurid design team has revived their​ Twitter feed.

The good news is that they’re still offering the same searing critiques for the zillions of naked gay guys who post their selfies online.

I caught up with their interior design experts at Lurid Digs to discuss the art of the naked selfie.

Why is now the right time to resurrect Lurid Digs?

After a year of COVID, there are a shitload of new photos for our design experts to consider.

All those guys, quarantined, stoned, horny and with way too much free time. Alas, you’d think we’d see more made beds in the photos – and less piles of crap all over the floor – but nope, the guys are just as lazy and careless as ever.

In a world where everyone is creating fan-subscription content, have guys become too self-aware when posting nudes?

No, thank god. One of Lurid’s founding principles was to dispel the cliche that queer men are somehow more persnickety and taste-conscious than het men.

What makes a good naked selfie?

Seriously, guys need to get out of their fucking bathrooms – if only for our team to better assess their actual abode. But also, we hate seeing toilets in photos – so gauche and dick-wilting.

We’ve just started to feature dwellings that are worthy of praise. We don’t just diss shit-holes, also offer the reader examples of what works.

How are guys featured in Lurid Digs?

Once Lurid Digs became a ’thing’, guys started submitting shots to us themselves – with footnotes like, “Go ahead, tear it up.”

We now have this very postmodern problem of guys using us to self-promote. So mercenary! We blame the OnlyFans phenomenon.

We also have a Google drive loaded with images that we come across in our day-to-day net trawling.

Are there any Naked Selfie trends we should be looking out for?

The most disturbing trend is the one where guys are using those speculum-like devices to transform their assholes into maw-like caves. We can’t deal with those.

We prefer the days of the placid, insouciant selfie – where you know the guy is drunk and horny and on the spur of the moment strips and lets it rip with his iPhone. Those will always be our favourite kind of pics.

What do you hope that people feel when reading the critiques of Lurid Digs?

Well, laughter of course. But not at the guys featured in the photos.

We’re about the fabulous merger of bad taste and self-expression – and the interior that contains it.

The legendary film reviewer Pauline Kael wisely noted, “Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.” With Lurid Digs, these two views collide in wonderful, unexpected ways.

When the site relaunches this spring, we’ll have the same rule in place that we’ve always used for the folks who want to leave comments on our critiques: “Never make fun of the homeowner. Keep your eye on the prize, namely the interior’s calamity. And learn what not to do when decorating your own home.

This last pointer is based on the ancient Hindu principle of neti-neti, which translates as: “Not this and for fuck’s sake not that.”

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