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Porn, cocaine and disco – these mainstays of the 1970s had America horny, hyper and ready to dance. And while they may have collectively peaked nearly 40 years ago, their influence is still evident today. Take Lady Gaga for example, or, well, Lady...
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The 1960s brought on the rise of the quaalude, the creation of the key party and the discovery of those precocious Brits, the Beatles. For those...
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While photographers like Bob Mizer and Bruce of LA were busy capturing the well-oiled bodies of off-duty military men and muscle beach bodybuilders,...
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The first issue of Physique Pictorial was a scant 16 pages long (cover to cover), but stimulating nonetheless (at least at the time). Featuring a...
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It seems the LAPD, that stronghold of racial profiling and police brutality, has been playing fast and loose with its night stick for decades now....
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Since we’re on a bit of a fashion kick this week, we thought we’d draw attention to some rather fashionable drawers – underwear, that is. When AMG...
Raging hard-ons, sketchy prison tattoos, and junkies, junkies, junkies – they have all been represented in contemporary art, but never like this....
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A little over a year ago, we received a request from the illustrious men’s magazine, BUTT, for a set of fully clothed models from the Bob Mizer...
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Bob Mizer was a genius, though quirky, photographer, but it’s his writing that proves what a truly bizarre man he was. The short political rants, the...
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It should come as no surprise that the fashion industry has once again mined the visual language of physique photography’s past to sell over-priced...
“Whereas many expressions are now accepted which would never have been tolerated in Victorian times, and each generation demands increasingly greater...
“Big Brother believes it is essential to tell you and me what is suitable for us to read and see—-apparently we lack the wisdom and discernment and...
"The lower down the social scale we go, the more virulent forms of prejudice are we able to discover, and the more ignorant are the excuses given to...
“It is an assault to the dignity of man and his creator to treat any portion of the body as something shameful and disgusting.”
“He listed his occupation as “short order cook,” said he was also a dishwasher, and his greatest ambition was to own his own Italian restaurant.”
“Apparently that previously starved public is like a collective alcoholic which has made all of its taste-buds so overstimulated that even massive...