The One With the Suggestively Named Product Omg abac ahahah im always assigned top tho idk i think i just look top? Who knows im actually much more bottom than i seem tbh… from r/bisexual Waitress, I’d like to order a side of… feeling very attacked! It’s tempting to think gay porn is a relatively recent phenomenon.“Tale as old as time, true as it can be…” However, the fascination with watching men have sex with one another is not new. In fact, it’s been there since prehistoric times. It’s also been at the forefront of many technological advances. Soon after the invention of photographic plates in the 1800s, people began to take shots of nudes. Here is a brief look back on male-on-male porn from the ages… Pre-modern age One of the reasons VHS took off in the early 1980s was because it meant you no longer had to venture out to porn theaters. The ancient Greeks and Romans were among the first to feature erotic images on ceramics.
Perhaps surprising to consumers of gay porn today, Greeks considered the ideal male penis as small, thin and uncircumcised. Greek playwright Aristophanes summed up male beauty as ‘a gleaming chest, bright skin, broad shoulders, tiny tongue, strong buttocks, and a little prick.’ Some of these depicted same-sex relations, and many of them celebrated cultural ideals of male beauty.
This idea of male beauty carried on over to Roman Times. A noteworthy artifact from this time is the Warren Cup, which resides in London’s British Museum. An engraving on the Warren Cup (Photo: Public Domain) It features two engraving of male figures engaged in anal sex.
The Greeks and Romans weren’t the only ones at it. Shunga art was a specific form of woodblock art that flourished from the 13th to 19th century in Japan. It often featured sexual relations, including same-sex couplings. Shunga woodblock art by Kitagawa Utamaro (Image: Public Domain) Below is the charmingly titled ‘Client lubricating a prostitute’ by Kitagawa Utamaro. The printing press arrived in Europe in the mid-15th century, and images of sex followed soon after. Some scholars trace the beginning of pornography back to an anonymous, illustrated French book published in 1655, entitled L’Ecole des Filles. In it, two young women discuss sex in detail. Diarist Samuel Pepys mentions purchasing a copy, and says he intends to burn it afterwards so his wife doesn’t discover it. The first photographic processes arrived in the 1830s in France. Soon after, early photographers produce images of nudes as aids for artists to paint and draw from. This is the first time some people might have got their hands on realistic photographic imagery of naked bodies. In the late 1800s, an underground trade in postcards depicting naked models sprung up – sometimes referred to as ‘French postcards’. Some of these included same-sex couplings, of which the below is one of the tamer examples. Seminal US photographer Bob Mizer began to sell his black and white photographs of athletic young men by mail order. Muscle men oil each other up for Physique Pictorial (Photo: Courtesy Bob Mizer Foundation) In 1945, he sets up Athletic Model Guild and launches Physique Pictorial, which goes on to publish thousands of images of muscular young men in distinctive posing pouches (made by Mizer’s own mother!). In 1947, authorities prosecuted Mizer for distributing obscene material and he served nine months in prison. Upon his release, he returned to photography and publishing, being careful to keep his work just on the right side of the law. Mizer died in 1992, but Physique Pictorial was recently relaunched by the Bob Mizer Foundation. Physique Pictorial magazine was recently relaunched (Image courtesy of Bob Mizer Foundation) 1950s
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The Washington DC-based MANual Enterprises, established by Herman Lynn Womack, turns out a string of Physique magazines. Its titles include Fizeek, Grecian Guild Pictorial, Manorama, MANual and Trim. Womack is significant because he became embroiled in a major US Supreme Court hearing: MANual Enterprises, Inc. The US Supreme Court subsequently ruled that photos of nearly nude or nude men are not necessarily obscene and can be sent through the postal service. Fizeek quarterly featuring an illustration by Tom of Finland (Photo: Fizeek) This led to a proliferation of so-called ‘Beefcake’ magazines in the 1960s.