Terra the Boy

[cest.moi]

Can someone explain exactly what 'Terra the boy' is as a lot of hot Brazillian male models seem to have started in this direction but google isn't giving me any straight answers, thanks

[danielK]

Hi cest.moi,

Back in the days, from the late 90's to 2008, a brazilian website terra.com used to publish pictures of models. Each month a model would be photographed for 10-13 galleries of pictures. Each gallery consists of 5-10 pictures. Usually the last 2-3 galleries were member only - i.e. only people registered with the site were able to access. Anyone outside Brazil was not able to register. The male model would be 'Terra the Boy'. The female model would be 'Terra the Girl'.

For the boys, the pictures were usually nicely done but tend to be a bit teasing with sexy shots, e.g. topless, shirtless, swimwear. Usually the 'member only' galleries were a bit more revealing, e.g. underwear, side nudity or very occassionally rear nudity. Even so, they strategically blocked any real nudity so you wouldn't see frontal nudity and the photos were not 'porn' feel. Cristiano Madureira, a brazilian photographer, did most of the shots for the site during that period of time. Didio, another brazilian photographer, contirbuted to the site in the later years. A few other photographers also did some work for the site but not as much as these two.

The site often picked new and upcoming brazilian models at the time. Usually these were real fashion models and not some random guys. Raphael Laus (2002), Matheus Verdelho (2005), Rodrigo Calazans (2007), Lucas Malvacini (2009), Marlon Di Gregori (2009), just to name a few. They did the shots for the site when they were still relatively unknown but managed to estiblish a modelling career later.

I think the site published the last 'Terra the Boy' in December 2009.