While the female nude has long played a major role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such adoration. This collection provides an overdue review of material that at one time could only be bought under the counter, beginning with the anonymous erotica of the 19th century. Featuring homoerotic nude photographs, illustrations from groundbreaking magazines such as Physique Pictorial, classic masters of male nude photography, such as Robert Mapplethorpe and the pin-up beefcake of the sex magazines.

Author: David Leddick

Hardcover 

576 pages