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For 2018, Foundation looks to the future as it honors the past

The year 2017 was one of unprecedented growth for the Bob Mizer Foundation. Exactly a quarter of a century after Mizer's death, the organization that bears his name relaunched the celebrated quarterly Physique Pictorial; began a move across the bay...

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Camera Porn: BMF receives donation of vintage cameras

While we are constantly cataloguing slides and photos at the Bob Mizer Foundation, the Foundation’s mission goes beyond just preserving his work....

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'Gay for pay' phenom common in modeling industry, both then and now

No one really knows the sexual proclivities of the thousands of models who appeared before Bob Mizer's still and video cameras, but one thing is...

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Physique Pictorial #43 ships next month. Here's what's inside...

Our winter issue of Physique Pictorial is hot off the presses and ready to ship at the beginning of next month.

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Foundation exclusive: Q&A with Michael Peacock

You might recall the name Michael Peacock from our article that was published a few weeks ago. Though we've received plenty of positive feedback on...

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Reagan-era report called for boycott of adult materials

Only 16 years after a presidential commission recommended loosening restrictions on the availability of adult materials, members of a second...

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Presidential report studied pornography in America

A 1969 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, Stanley v. Georgia, ruled that people could view and read whatever they wished in the privacy of their...

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The fig leaf drops: 1969 issue of Physique Pictorial quietly heralded arrival of nudity

Only mere months after the U.S. Supreme Court declared nudity in art to be not obscene, Bob Mizer was among the first to feature nudity in his male...

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Before he was the 'Governator,' Arnold posed for Mizer

Before he traveled through time to save the world, before he became the most powerful man in California, Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger...

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'Not guilty' verdict in Peacock case was major stride forward for sexual liberty

Michael Peacock, quite simply, is a force to be reckoned with -- a fact that one prosecuting attorney learned the hard way.

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Unconventional beauty: In defense of Jim Grant, gingers, and normalcy

Though Bob Mizer’s Physique Pictorial gave its readers a glimpse of models who appeared the pinnacle of physical perfection, muscles and all, Mizer...

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Macfadden's beliefs about diet, exercise similar to our own

Author's note: This is the conclusion of a three-part series on bodybuilder and health advocate Bernarr Macfadden.

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Columnist lays bare our fascination with men in uniform

In recent pilferings through the internet's vast and varied collection in the genre of men in uniform, seeing the fetishized and erotic portrayals of...

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Macfadden shared Mizer's penchant for freedom of speech

Author's note: This is the second part of a three-part series on bodybuilder and health advocate Bernarr Macfadden. Look for part III on our blog on...

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Macfadden was the father of physique culture at turn of century

Author’s note: This is the first part of a three-part series on bodybuilder and health advocate Bernarr Macfadden. Look for part II on our blog next...

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Update: A Look Inside the Growing Foundation

The Bob Mizer Foundation's acquisition of 920 Larkin St. in downtown San Francisco last year was just the beginning of the next chapter in the...

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