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Beefcake and Bulges in Recent Swim Team Photos
Ready for another assorted set of pecs, abs, biceps and bulges from the swim teams of yesteryear? This time we'll go from the 1960s to the present.Kelly High School, Chicago, 1967. Some of these kids...
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Swordsmen and Sorcerers of the 1980s
For over a century, people have been rejecting naturalistic literature to write heroic fantasy. In Britain, mostly about unlikely heroes who travel through magic-laden Medieval landscapes to fight...
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Beefcake and Bulges in Old Swedish Photographs
The Du Gamla website uploads photographs of people who lived in Sweden from the 1850s and 1950s. Some local celebrities, like Olympic athletes, but mostly regular people with no particular claims to...
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My Hookup with the Bodybuilder Goes Wrong
Plains, April 2017I've always found Sunday nights boring, depressing, and generally downers. There's nothing going on, nothing to do but watch Fox animation, and now I don't even have live tv anymore....
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May 1979: One of My Little Brother's Friends is Gay
Rock Island, May 1979One day in May 1979, near the end of my freshman year in college, my younger brother Kenny said "You've been a homo for almost a year now."I glared at him. He was the only one I...
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Gilad's Body in Motion
During the 1980s, this was one of the most famous physiques -- and bulges -- in the world. It belongs to Gilad Janklowicz (try telling your Dad that you want a poster of Gilad Janklowicz for your...
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The Beefcake Explosion of Nolan Gould
If you haven't watched the doddering Modern Family for awhile, prepare yourself for a shock. Remember this kid?He's grown a bit.Back in September 2009, when Modern Family premiered, I was living in...
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Beefcake and Bulges in Surfing Art
I expected paintings about surfing to highlight buffed male bodies and bulging swimsuits, but they tend to emphasize gigantic waves and crashing surf, making the bodies as small and insignificant as in...
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Chad Everett
Chad Everett, who died in 2012, had a nicely toned physique and amazingly tight pants that became familiar to Boomer kids through beefcake appearances on many 1960s Westerns and swinging detective tv...
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Fantasy Kidnapping
In many BDSM scenes, the bottom pretends to be unwilling, a prisoner of war being interrogated, a spy being tortured, a hitchhiker who was abducted.A pretense of force is a powerful way to give up...
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10 Things You Should Know about Doug Savant and His Penis
1. He was in Teen Wolf, with Michael J. Fox, but if you blink, you miss him.2. He was very popular in West Hollywood in the 1990s for playing Matt Fielding, the gay guy on the evening soap Melrose...
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Beefcake and Bonding in British Boys' Annuals
From the 1930s through the 1980s, British boys spent Christmas day unwrapping and reading "annuals," thick hardback books with stories and pictures derived from weekly story papers: Hotspur, Champion,...
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My Boyfriend Goes to Bed with a Baseball Player
Rock Island, June 1979I've been putting off the story of Carl the Nazarene boy, because it's kind of embarrassing.He was one of my brother Kenny's friends, a 16-year old sophomore at Rocky High (all...
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Helmut Riedmeier, German Bodybuilder with Something Extra
Helmut Riedmeier was born in Munich on May 14th, 1944, during World War II, and took up bodybuilding as a teenager. He won the Junior Mr. Germany award in 1964 and Mr. Germany and Mr. Europe in 1965.In...
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How to Survive the Top 10 Problems of Summer
For teachers and college professors, summer begins when you turn in the final grades in May, and ends when you stand in front of that first class in August.I hate summertime. Three long, hot, boring,...
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The Navy Pre-Flight Training School: World War II Beefcake
In February 1942, just at the start of U.S. involvement in World War II, St. Mary's College in California was chosen as one of four sites for a Navy Pre-Flight Training School, where new recruits would...
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Sausage Sighting of Christopher Atkins
When I was living in West Hollywood, I met a lot of actors, some famous ones: Adam West, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cesar Romero, Gregory Harrison, Greg Williams, John Amos, Lou Ferrigno, Michael J. Fox,...
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Romero Britto's Gay Art and Conservative Politics
Brazilian-born artist Romero Britto brings pop art into the 21st century with his instantly recognizable style of interlocking, brightly-colored patterns. His work has appeared in over 100 museums and...
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Akim and Jim: Tarzan and Boy of European comics
One of the more popular Tarzan clones was Akim, Son of the Jungle, created by Italian cartoonist Roberto Renzi and artist Augusto Pedrazza. In Italy Tarzan clones are called Tarzanidi. During his run...
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Why Infinite Chazz Broke Up with the Ginger Boy
West Hollywood, June 1994We gave Chazz the nickname Infinite because he was infinitely hung, with at least a Mortadella, and because he was infinitely attractive. Every guy in sight cruised him. He...
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