Enjoy Red-Hot Ginger Vibes All Year Long with the 'Fire Island 2025' Calendar

The brand is so beloved, and so smoking hot, that it even features a collection of documentaries on the making of some of its annual offerings, like "The Making of Red Hot X" and "The Making of Red Hot Desire" – just two of the titles available for digital download. (For the full list, click here.

And while the yearly calendars may flip through assorted moments of smoldering desire, the site makes select art prints available for those extra-special moments you won't want to let go of.

A handsome hardcover coffee table book, "Red Hot Desire," captures even more ginger delight. Filled with spectacular photos by Thomas Knights, the 176-page treasure trove is available separately or bundled together with the 2025 calendar.

As 2024 falls away, it's time for fresh adventures. Pack your bags for twelve months of fierce ginger bliss in a celebrated gay paradise! "A Fire Island Fantasy," this collection – from the "world's top portrait photographers" – will surely be a touchtone as the year ahead unfolds.

"As a proudly LGBT-owned and run brand, we're excited to celebrate pride, liberation, and sexuality at THE ultimate gay destination: Fire Island," text at the Red Hot site declares. "We have captured the essence of a summer vacation on this unique and treasured island, where glistening skin, turquoise seas, and vibrant red hair meet."

Described as a "Male art nude calendar," the new offering brings together "a brand new lineup of the world's sexiest ginger men from our global model search" – or, as the text puts it a little further on, "The world's hottest ginger guys."

While past years have featured multiple calendar releases, the "Fire Island" venture is the sole offering this time around. But these handsome hunks are all you need... and all you can handle!

Being well-trimmed is always appealing, but don't let the SFW versions of the new calendar shown here fool you. The actual calendar boasts stunning photos that are "uncropped and uncensored," the site assures, so the NSFW version that hangs on your wall is going to be even wilder.

Like many calendars of its kind (the Australian Firefighters calendar, for instance, which supports animal rescue charities, or the Barefoot Man calendar, which supports efforts to eradicate homophobia in sports), the Red Hot calendars support a worthwhile charitable cause: The calendar is "raising money and awareness... for Testicular Cancer charity ," as its site reminds shoppers.

One thing fans of ginger lads don't need to worry about is that red-haired people are rapidly headed for extinctions. Sensational reports that we find ourselves on the eve of a ginger apocalypse get the science wrong. Those rumors are based on the assumption that because red hair is the result of recessive genes from both parents, the ballyhooed "dilution effect" of more dominant genes crowding out ginger traits in an inevitable, and imminent, end result. But that myth overlooks the fact that people will continue to carry recessive genes, and to mix and mingle, just as they have ever since ginger lads appeared on the scene an estimated 30,000 – 80,000 years ago.

Another fallacy about gingers is that red hair in humans is the result of our ancestors mating with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Not so, say researchers; while modern humans do retain genetic traces of Neanderthals and other now-extinct branches of humanity, our ginger forebears got their attention-grabbing locks from a different mutation than did the red-haired fellows among our late Neanderthal cousins.

So, rejoice! Gingers are not headed for the exit after all. But they still stir primal responses in many, and as such they deserve celebration. Join the party with Red Hot's "Fire Island 2025" calendar!