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 ...

People around the world hold a belief that every UFC fighter has a ripped and well-toned physique. There are fighters who manage to meet these expectations and there are some who exceed them by a long ...

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 ...

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 & ...

UFC fighters are among the most impressive athletes in the sports world. They spend time priming their bodies for combat. While sharpening one's skills through sparring is fundamental to success in ...

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 ...

Ernie Hudson is still dropping gems. The 78-year-old actor has been a hot topic since fans noticed his impressive physique during an appearance promoting “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” in London last ...