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EARLY GAY EROTIC PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL ART AT ITS BEST
In Mint Condition
All Original Unwritten Reproduced Reprinted Postcards By TASCHEN
In 1893, Florenz Ziegfeld started the modern mania for muscles with a German strongman he called "Sandow the Magnificent" . The first body-building magazine was launched in 1908, but the golden age of Beefcake really began in 1952 with the debut of a little magazine called Physique Pictorial. A dozen such magazines soon appeared. By 1955 their combined sales had probably reached a million copies a year. Photos of guys posing not quite naked may hardly seem revolutionary today, but in those muscle mags, for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, attractive young men were naked purely to be looked at and enjoyed. That was radical enough, but the real reason they were considered dangerous was that they were the first magazines for homosexuals. Well into the 1960s, those little physique magazines were not just an aspect of gay culture in America; they virtually were gay culture. It took a series of long censorship trials before the courts ruled, in 1968, that the portrayal of a fully naked man was not pornographic. The physique field subsequently expanded into a multi-faceted billion-dollar industry, but not one of the little muscle mags survived the massive changes which occurred after really graphic erotica became legally admissible. Bob Mizer's Physique Pictorial - the first - was also the last, closing its doors on 31 December 1993.
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Postcard Size: 4.5" x 6.5"(approx)
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