“What the hell happened to the hunks?” asks drag queen extraordinaire Lady Bunny in the Foreword to Beefcake, a collection of vintage porn from the Golden Age of male erotica.
“Hollywood male A-list stars aren’t hot anymore!” and while she admits that some are dashing and others attractive, none are true alpha males, bursting with testosterone like the movie stars from bygone eras…
If, like Lady Bunny, you long for the days of the drool-worthy, impossibly good looking hunks of the big screen, who the studios exploited for their sex appeal and not their acting ability, then you’ll love Beefcake. Featuring images and layouts from physique magazines and photos taken from private collections of male pin-ups from the 1940s to pre-disco, Beefcake is a fun and humorous goldmine of rare, all-American beefcake pin-ups.
• Written by Petra Mason with a Foreword by Lady Bunny, Beefcake is published by Rizzoli and on sale at Prowler.
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