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How Intimate is Your Sex Life?
We have sex for many reasons:To express erotic desire.To experience beautyTo boost our self esteemTo be politeFor recreationTo establish and maintain intimacy.Intimacy: that feeling of intense...
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Sub-Mariner: Marvel Beefcake Comic
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, I liked Harvey, Disney, and sometimes Archie comics, but I usually skipped Marvel. Who had the time or money to keep track of story lines that extended...
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Nephew Sausage Sighting #1: Ethan
We typically get our first sausage sightings from relatives, uncles, brothers or cousins, and they remain a reliable source through our lives, especially when the new generation of nephews and second...
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Let's Get Physical
I heard Olivia Newton-John a lot during the 1970s. Her easy-listening, feelings-drenched songs appealed mostly to girls. "If Not for You" (1971) and "I Honestly Love You" (1974) didn't specify...
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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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The Shy Kentucky Boy at the Bathhouse
January 7th, 2011. Cleveland, Ohio.My boyfriend Troy and I are traveling crosscountry from Upstate New York to Indianapolis to visit my relatives. Cleveland is a convenient halfway point, so we get a...
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Pro Wrestling's Gay Villains
My brother was a big fan of pro wrestling. He bought lots of magazines with pictures of beefy men in tight shorts pummelling each other. He watched the WWWF (which stood for World Wide Wrestling...
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Tracking Down the Glory Hole Boy
Plains, May 2017Last Friday I had a glory-hole encounter with someone in the college library. I didn't see his face or much of his physique, just a little of his legs and shoes. But it must have been...
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Summertime Car Washes
One of the joys of summer is the car wash fundraiser. Check your local event calendar, and you'll find one or two per week: a club, class, team, or church group is raising money by washing cars. The...
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A Week of Beefcake and Bulges on the Plains
Plains, May 2017On college campuses, the best season for beefcake watching is spring, when the heavy coats come off, and even when it's only 45 degrees out, undergrads break out the bulgeworthy short...
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Bob Hover/ Richard Harrison: Muscle Buddies
During the 1950s, when Muscle Beach bodybuilders were being snapped up by the Athletic Model Guild to pose in the burgeoning gay-vague physique magazines industry, buddies Bob Hover (right) and Richard...
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Aleksandr Deyneka: Soviet Beefcake Artist
Aleksandr Deyneka (1899-1962) is one of the most famous artists of the school of "Soviet Realism" school: bright, strong, with restrained color and few abstractions, useful for both building Soviet...
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Nephew Sausage Sighting #2: The Athlete in the Bathroom
Indianapolis, June 2013The nice thing about having heterosexual relatives is, they tend to reproduce. And their kids grow up into a whole new group of mega-hunks.My brother has three sons: Ethan,...
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Lucas Neff: Beefcake and Gay Characters after "Raising Hope"
Raising Hope (2010-2014) was about a wacky working-class family whose son, Jimmy (Lucas Neff) became a single dad after a one-night stand with a serial killer. There were no gay characters, except...
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1970s Saturday Morning Beefcake
During the late 1970s, there was a fad for live-action adventure on Saturday morning tv. Mostly low-budget, sometimes stage-bound, but with lots of cute boys and men for the preteen set. Occasional...
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Nephew Sausage Sighting #3: A Fondle and a Sock
After my parents moved to Indianapolis in 1995, I used to stay with my brother when I returned to Rock Island for Christmas or summer visits. He put me in a room next to his sons, Ethan (born June...
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Hogan's Heroes: The Wackiest POW Camp in Germany
Our older brothers and fathers were in Vietnam, where casualties were mounting every day, but at home we watched wacky soldiers: McHale's Navy, No Time for Sergeants, F-Troop, Gomer Pyle USMC, The...
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Animaniacs: Heterosexist to the Max
In a 1992 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures,Buster and Babs help some outdated black-and-white cartoon characters from the 1930s, who become so popular that Tiny Toons is cancelled to make room for their...
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Raul and My Bed-Switching Roommate
In the fall of 1986, shortly after I returned from Japan, I was living with Alan, who dragged me to the gay Asian bar Mugi twice a week. Our other roommate, Chaiyo, was from Thailand. I was taking a...
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Chris and Patrick Petersen: 1970s Ninja Kids
During the late 1970s, as networks scrambled to find enough child actors to fill their "after school special" kid-angst movies, Brothers Chris and Pat Petersen (no relation to the 1950s teen idol Paul...
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