The Body offers us a view of more vintage male nakedness.
Happiness is a comfortable oil drum.
Meet John Skaggs:
These men were always pulling on rope in the nude.
And ready for sword fights.
Two naked guys arm in arm is always nice.
A younger vintage male model.
Dig those groovy sideburns.
Our pretty man staring at his own face in the mirror appears to have that aberrant form of self-admiration popularly known as a Narcissus Complex.
You’ve probably known attractive guys who were equally lost in self-love.
Before Pretty Man we showed you Pretty Boy.
Mr. Sun Number One: once again naked men frolic in the out of doors.
Body painting was certainly apt for the groovy year of 1968.
Wrestling in the nude - a favorite pastime of nude models during the vintage era.
Naked horse riding?
The text’s piety isn’t to be trusted. Black men seem to be largely absent from earlier vintage homoerotic publications. Hard to believe in the era of Black Inches magazine.
Was the this nude beach segregated?
Homosexual Train offers another somewhat lame homoerotic wrestling photograph like Faggots Galore.
The only explanation I can come up with for these baffling book title is that the editor found gay men completely alien.
La Culture Physique, the French answer to Physique Pictorial.
What a shiny lad.
1950s American homoerotic photographs of athletic young men don’t appeal to me very much.
But I can’t help but like this attempt to capture the delight of a well-proportioned youth, classical athleticism with a touch of dignity is irresistible. Happily we can’t chat with him and have the illusion crumble.
Looking at the blond guy made me wonder if boxing magazines like Fight functioned as erotic for gay men back in the 1940s.
Somehow I can’t quite imagine anyone nowadays doing something quite this stereotypically funny as this vintage photograph of a naked Hispanic man wearing a sombrero.
How many fantasies have gay men had about picking up a young hunky hitchhiker? Actually, when I was young and used my thumb to travel a fair bit I got some, um, interesting offers. None worth accepting I’m afraid.
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