Buying Gay is a thorough, and extremely entertaining read that delights in several ways, and especially in terms of David K. Johnson's analysis of the tropes of physique magazines. Buying Gay is a ...

Cavalier, ca. 1955, from Physique by Vince Aletti (SPBH Editions / MACK, 2025). Courtesy of Cavalier, SPBH Editions, and MACK. We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a ...

On Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was famously anti-exercise. If she wasn’t skipping out early from a “goddess workout” class with Miranda, she was joking that she got all the cardio she needed ...

Meet Dev, an avid writer, cat lover, and anime enthusiast. He has a passion for storytelling, traveling, and new adventures. Anime characters often have extraordinary physiques that represent their ...

I had never read a bodybuilding magazine before I started working at one. It was December 1992, I was a broke-ass graduate student, and out of pure luck landed a part-time copyediting job at Muscle & ...

In the middle of BBC World news is a story about a South Korean pop star turned to bodybuilding. The Korean feminine body ideal, the report reveals, has long been petite and thin, but is now changing ...

‘A friend who visits a lot, always sits at my desk (where I have all these pictures), and has never shown interest in them, really responded once he saw my edit,’ says the revered critic, collector ...

Muscle coach Paul Revelia has previously explained the changes he made to his routine that helped him lean down to just 10 percent body fat while preparing for a physique show, but he acknowledges ...

It pains me to admit that I remember when gay pornography didn't show frontal nudity. That's when I had my 14-year-old erotic moments in the town's used magazine store, thumbing through back issues of ...

Every men's open category bodybuilder fantasizes about walking onto the Mr Olympia stage. Since 1965, this competition has elevated participants like Phil Heath, Ronnie Coleman, and Arnold ...