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Popular among French girls but also males Les Dieux du Stade (English: Gods of the Stadium) is the title calendars first published since 2001, featuring nude rugbymen of Stade Français, the Paris-based rugby team of the French League.
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The calendar find a worldwide audience thanks to photos published in the internet mostly on gay oriented sites and blog. The shooting was and still is done by famous photographers. The 2010 release by Tony Duran was qualified as very sexy and even homoerotic, so the latest released for 2011 is considered less provocative.
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In more recent years, players from other rugby union clubs and athletes from other sports have also been included.
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The calendars and book have mostly black-and-white nude, erotic and sometimes homoerotic photographs of the players. Starting with the 2004 edition, a DVD covering the making of the calendar has also been released every year.
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The photographers for the yearly editions have been as follows:
2001: Kris Gautier
2002: Kris Gautier
2003: Mathias Vriens
2004: François Rousseau
2005: Carter Smith
2006: Fred Goudon
2007: Mariano Vivanco
2008: Steven Klein
2009: Peter Lindbergh
2010: Tony Duran
2011: François Rousseau
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