Jr. Winter Edition Annual No. 3 1967, Vintage Male Beefcake Magazine, Rare

  

Special Winter Edition Annual No. 3 1967, Vintage Male Beefcake Magazine, Rare , Very Rare.

Was a more sophisticated vintage gay muscle magazine that hid the fact is was geared for homosexual men. Is a beefcake magazine published in the era of the 1930's through the 1960's. The main audience of beefcake magazines was gay men. However, Beefcake magazines were designed to appear as fitness and health magazines rather than erotic magazines, because of censorship and homophobia. Typically, the models in a beefcake magazine such as Jr. Performed exercise poses in the magazine's photos, rather than explicitly being shown in sexual settings. Other pocket-size magazines published by Young Physique Publications include Adonis, Art and Physique, Body Beautiful, Fizeek Art Quarterly, Grecian Guild Pictorial, Male Figure, Male Pix, Man Alive, Manorama, MANual, Man's World, Mars, Physique Illustrated, Physique Artistry, Physique Pictorial, Scan, Tomorrow's Man, Trim, and Fizeek. In December 1945, Gay pornography pioneer Bob Mizer founded Athletic Model Guild, or AMG. Mizer's AMG produced Physique Pictorial, the first all-nude and all-male magazine, and the film Beefcake documents his work and the growth of the Beefcake magazine industry. Lynn Womack published magazines such as Manorama, MANual, Fizeek, and Trim and was involved in the U. Supreme Court case MANual Enterprises v. From 1964 to 1967, Clark Polak published DRUM magazine. In the 1960's, the pretense of being about exercise and fitness was dropped as controls on pornography were reduced.

By the end of the decade gay pornography became legal, and the market for beefcake magazines collapsed. Young Physique magazine was a prime example of this genre. It had a centerfold with a young model wearing a posing strap (g-string) with creative sets designed by the well-known gay photographer James Bidgood. Showing total nudity was illegal before 1962, so all models had to wear posing straps.

In the 1980's and 1990's, beefcake magazines enjoyed a resurgence due to a heightened interest in gym culture as well as the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Numerous titles found success, such as Men's Workout, Exercise for Men Only, and Men's Exercise. These magazines are highly visual-oriented with extensive pictorials in contrast to fitness magazines that focus more on text such as Men's Fitness. Many of the images feature homoerotic or suggestive sexual imagery, such as male models unbuttoning their pants or almost full nudity. Some have included profiles of male strippers and some of the male models have also appeared in Playgirl.

I have been an owner of numerous gay sexual business's since 1969, one of them was the Bijou Theater and sex club that closed in 2015. I set prices for collectible item's based on what I paid, quality, rarity, market value. I cater to collectors, those who give gifts, those who are looking for a specific man, item, article etc. Bijou's inventory is over 35,000 magazines plus thousands of brochures etc.

As a collector myself I dislike it when sellers misrepresent items their offering by making very general descriptions as Very Good, Excellent, Like New, New knowing that the items have creases, tears, rusted staples, very visible wear or just leaving defects out. 3 1967, Vintage Male Beefcake Magazine, Rare" is in sale since Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

This item is in the category "Books\Magazine Back Issues". The seller is "vgoodperson" and is located in Chicago, Illinois.

This item can be shipped to United States.

• Subject: Gay Male Beefcake
• Publication Name: Jr.

• Year Published: 1967
• Language: English
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Features: Vintage Gay Male Photography
• Type: Magazine
• Year: 1967
• Media Type: Magazine
• Publication Year: 1967
• Publication Month: Winter Annual
• Issue Type: Annual
• Bundle Listing: No