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Muscle Boys - Gay Gym Culture (Paperback)
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Muscle Boys - Gay Gym Culture (Paperback)
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Find out why the gym has become the hottest place to work up a good
sweat! Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is an inside look at the secret
world of exercise and fitness that's become one of the country's
fastest growing and most influential gay subcultures. The author, a
personal trainer on the San Francisco gay gym scene for more than a
decade, examines the history, sociology, and influence of
bodybuilding, male body image, and beefcake media, and incorporates
the results of an online study of nearly 6,000 gay and bisexual men
for an in-depth look at gay body culture and its role in modern gay
life. Over the past 20 years, the physical and social trends of the
gay gym have traveled far from the gay "ghettos" of New York and
San Francisco, thanks to the modern gay man's ability to travel -
both online and off. What was once a lifestyle for a small number
of trendy gay men in big cities has become a way of life for many
and the gay gym has become a subculture all its own. Muscle Boys
includes interviews and profiles, photographs, and research
findings on masculinity, steroids, sex in the locker room, and much
more! Muscle Boys examines: the history of the ancient Greek gym
culture and the Greek ideal the modern male body ideal - and the
gay influences that created it body image in gay culture and its
effect on modern gay socialization muscle media - a history of
homoerotic muscle-bound photography, pornography, and advertising
popular gay cultures and stereotypes (athletes, muscle boys,
circuit boys, muscle bears, muscle daddies) the gym, fitness, and
HIV fitness and health for gay baby boomers and seniors gay
athletics steroids sex in the locker room "and much more" Muscle
Boys is a mustread for anyone interested in gay body culture and
for academics working in GLBT studies, human sexuality, psychology,
and gay athletics.
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