DIFUSIE Magazine Issue 018 — “Paradise Pounding: Eight Horny Bastards Unleashed on Postcard Perfection”

DIFUSIE Magazine Issue 018, “Paradise Pounding,” is a full-scale, sun-drenched invasion. This volume dispatches eight of the most formidable and unapologetically virile male forces—Emillio Barzini, Marco Sorbino, Kore Ignis, Itan Primac, Tony Hardon, Lav Baxter, Nino Nucci, and Carlo Rizzi—on a campaign across the world’s most iconic stages of beauty: the sheer cliffs of Amalfi, the sterile-white geometry of Mykonos, and the liquid sapphire of the Maldives. Their mission: to corrupt the pristine with the unvarnished, primal truth of the male animal in a state of raw, ready hunger.

This is not a photoshoot; it is an occupation. Styled by Dusan Nikola Ripley in nothing but their own formidable skin and the elements, the models are not placed in these locations—they claim them. The photography by Yuri Sokolov and Elena van Gallen operates with a brutal, unflinching focus. Every shot is a confrontation. The lens does not shy away; it zeroes in, capturing every sweat-sheened muscle, every straining tendon, and with unapologetic clarity, every monumental, intimate detail of their powerful, naked forms. The body is not suggested; it is displayed, in all its unsoftened, brutally provocative glory.

Andy Draper’s sets—the ancient rock, the blinding walls, the endless ocean—serve as the ultimate contrasting canvas. Here, against a backdrop of sublime beauty, the raw, aggressive, and hungry male form is thrown into its sharpest possible relief. Indira Samrat’s lighting carves them out of the environment like living monuments, while the effects teams of Mira Trocky and Leonardo van de Schtender layer on the visceral evidence of their presence: salt crust, hot sand, and the palpable heat of exertion.

The interviews, a charged dialogue conducted by Elena Volk and the incendiary Marat Casapin, are stripped of all pretense. They delve into the psyche of the “horny bastard”—exploring the ungovernable drive, the power in unrestrained desire, and the unspoken brotherhood forged when eight men stand completely exposed, not just to the world, but to each other. This is a manifesto on the courage to be seen in a state of pure, wanting physicality.

DIFUSIE 018: Paradise Pounding. We didn’t visit these postcard locations. We fucked them. And the evidence is all here, in glorious, uncompromising detail.