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 ...

I remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the sight of it. I was probably eight or nine, a child of the postwar boom, and on vacation with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bodybuilder and coach Paul Revelia has made several videos breaking down his tactics for getting lean ahead of a physique competition, and how he uses walking as his main form of cardio during a cut.

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 ...

Steve Cook is a handsome man. He is also a professional physique competitor, which technically makes him a bodybuilder. But physique competition is more about proportion than, say, swole-ishness. The ...

Just like many of us are sick of hearing about how to get our ‘beach body’ ready as soon as the sun makes an appearance, now we have another ridiculous concept to contend with: the “cyclist’s physique ...