Bob Mizer - Physique Pictorial Natural Volume 17 Number 2-4, January 1969

Magazine/Periodical Athletic Model Guild, Los Angeles, 1969. First Edition, Softcover. Fine Condition. 21cm x 13cm. 48 pages, illustrations, some colour. Illustrated saddle-stapled self-wrappers. Single 1960s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer's AMG. The Natural double issue with several colour sheets. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic. This issue marks the transition of the magazine to this more naked and sexualised display. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: LGBTIQ+ Gay Art; LGBTIQ+ Gay Studies. Inventory No: 0031976.