The abs! The abs! Piolo Pascual is flexing and he is hawt! This came from a series of photos in one of his scenes in the fantasy series Lobo, a ripoff of the movie Blood and Chocolate and the Korean series Forbidden Love. Looks like, with the low ratings of the series, the producers of the show are trying to sex up the scenes to rake in the viewers. If it’s going to be a half-naked Piolo in the next episodes of Lobo, I wouldn’t mind staying up late to watch.

Who’s sexier? At the Be Bench Finals held last year, three guys were made to stand next to each other [photo above, l-r] – the tall mestizo Jon Mullally, twinkie Jake Cuenca and moreno Bruce Quebral . If you were to choose, hypothetically, among the guys, who would it be? Will it be the Filipino-British Mullally, who seems bland but tall and goodlooking anyways? Or the young tease Cuenca, who is the IT boy of his home studio these days? Or maybe, you prefer the hunkier baller Quebral, with typical Filipino looks?

The hot season will never be complete without photos of a shirtless, trunks-clad Piolo Pascual, the ultimate Filipino leading man of the moment. Tall, dark, ripped and handsome, Piolo Pascual currently stars in his own fantasy series in his home studio, has his own recording deal and album and a string of movies tucked up his sleeve.

Ram Ace Bautista doesn’t like wearing clothes, I think. He is always in a state of undress in his photos – showing all his pecs and packs, bulges and blobs. Not that I’m complaining though, as the young hunk from Kawit, Cavite reminds us that summer is all about, uh, wearing light clothing as much as possible. Darn.

Jack Mendoza [left] and Joseph Kidwell started out in bikini contests and shows until their respective showbiz career paths headed to different directions. Jack Mendoza went on to do sexy B-flicks and small bikini fashion shows. On the other hand, Joseph Kidwell won Man of the Year 2005 Model Search, and the tv commercials and modeling assignments started to pour in. So far only Joseph Kidwell has been visible on tv and print lately with his ads.

With the summer season, expect more daring men to bare themselves publicly in contests and shows and publicity photos. A few years back, one guy unhesitatingly dropped his skivvies. Now 24 years old, Rhum Palermo used to model for the bikini [and non-bikini] series of shows that started the trend in daring mainstream spectacles. Of course, that is his screen name, as he is known also with the name Golden P___. He now works for a major broadcasting company, according to sources.

Summer’s definitely here, and it’s the time for bikini contests featuring boys who want to have a shot at their 15 minutes of half-naked fame. One of them is half-Jordanian, half-Filipino Hamudi Khileifat, who first appeared in the infamous All Out series, before he had a falling out with his handlers. The 19-year-old is now a freelance model, usually for bikini shows and contests around the metro.

Marvin Simon Sia first got noticed in a commercial for CloseUp toothpaste. In 2004, he won Colgate’s 1Million Pesos Trip Kita Challenge. The 5’9″-tall model then joined the 2006 Mossimo Bikini Grand Prix [won by Jerome Ortiz]. People always find an uncanny resemblance of this guy with Vanness Wu of the Asian boyband F4.

Roman de Dios is such a sheer wonder in this black see-through bikini. According to bikiniscience.com, there is such a thing as the opacity variant, which is “a bikini fashion variable on a six element scale that varies from the completely opaque, through openwork, see-through-when-wet, transcluent, transparent, to invisible.” Apparently, Roman above is wearing transparent bikini, which allow an unrestricted view of the body beneath. Now I’m wondering what the invisible bikini looks like.