Photography, Culture, Environment

THE SHY GUY #7 LOVE ME TENDER

Publishers

BENOÎT BÉTHUME

Info

48 pages

2025

210mm × 297mm

Softcover

ISBN

9782805210181

Cost

€25,00

The Shy Guy #7, Love Me Tender, published in April 2025, is the seventh issue of the Paris fanzine of nude men by Benoît Béthume and Claire Detallante. Its 48 pages pair a new group of “boy next door” models with the signs of the zodiac in the Eroscope, the fanzine’s sensual horoscope. It is sold out at the publisher and still in stock at Antenne Books, together with every other issue from #1 to #8.

Inside this issue
Models paired with the zodiac in the Eroscope · illustrations by Claire Detallante · ISBN 9782805210181

Details
Fanzine · 48 pages · April 2025 · Published by The Shy Guy, Paris · contains nudity, for adults (18+)

About The Shy Guy
Founded in 2020 by photographer Benoît Béthume and illustrator Claire Detallante, THE SHY GUY is an annual fanzine about naked men and Eros. Each A4 issue is filled with Béthume’s photographs of boy-next-door types, shot with an intimacy that swaps bravado for vulnerability and offers a softer, more honest take on masculinity. Giving the zine its look is Detallante’s Eroscope, a cast of twelve line-drawn silhouettes, one for each sign of the zodiac, which turns every issue into a sensual horoscope. The characters have since been shown at RAUCH OFFSPACE in Krefeld (2022) and spun off into a limited-edition clothing line. 

Latest issue: The Shy Guy #8: Turn Me On – antennebooks.com/products/the-shy-guy-8
All issues of The Shy Guy: antennebooks.com/collections/the-shy-guy