The Winner of Mr. Brazil Gets Naked

We have a Brazilian friend who says that not everyone in that sunkissed nation is as beautiful as the media leads us Americans to think. The recently crowned Mr. Brazil makes us beg to differ. Everyone in the nation is surely as much of a stunner as Lucas Malvacini.

Lucas out-hunked 38 other contenders for the crown this past Saturday in Angra dos Reis at a ceremony that surely had more audience erections than an Amsterdam bathhouse. He also won a R$100,000 Scholarship. Scholarship to where? Beauty isn't supposed to have brains! It's what makes us average joes feel somewhat superior. The runners up are no slim pickins of cheesebread themselves. We wonder what Lucas has that put him over the edge? We're guessing it's that marvelously round butt, the type that should be passed around table to table at some Brazilian All You Can Eat Ass Buffet.

If photos aren't enough, here's a few videos of the contestants strutting their stuff. Now, why couldn't these events be glorified on National TV, like they are for female beauty pageants? They would have been the yearly event our teenage self would have loved considerably more than "The Sound of Music" and The Tony Awards.

· Lucas Malvacini is the New Mister Brazil (madeinbrazil.typepad.com)
· Duelos com sunga marcam "playoff da beleza" - Parte 2 (mais.uol.com.br)