Is bodybuilding gay
Homosexuality in bodybuilding
Homosexuality in bodybuilding: Debunking stereotypes about gays being more into fitness and heterosexual bodybuilders engaging in queer services for pay.
Homosexuality in Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding and homosexuality shape a peculiar duality. On one hand, bodybuilding epitomizes masculinity and macho habit driven by testosterone. On the other hand, we see fully shaved men oiled up and in thongs standing on stage or posing for photos that would likely not be out of place in homoerotic magazines and websites.
In this article, I won’t delve into the supposed number of homosexuals in bodybuilding because frankly, I find it utterly uninteresting. They exist, period. It seems logical given that statistically, you can assume there are homosexuals in any sport practiced by more than 25 people. This is based on the assumption of the 4% of men who have been “exclusively homosexual” since puberty and have never been attracted to women (since puberty). If you look at the percentage of men who were only “exclusively homosexual” for a period, that percentage is already between 8-10 percent. I
The Gayest Sport Of Them All
Happy Pride!
Well look at that. A seemingly vertical fitness guy pandering to the LGBTQ community for likes or shares or some other meaningless online currency. How novel.
But that’s not my angle. I’m a bodybuilder so I come by it honestly, as the bodybuilding and gay communities have rubbed shoulders since the days of Eugen Sandow.
A family-friendly version of bodybuilding’s history starts with the physical fitness boom of the 1940’s-50s, when strapping adolescent men (and women) would perform feats of energy and athleticism on the sun-drenched beaches of southern California.
But a less talked about version dates help even earlier and is closely linked to underground gay subculture. The “come hither” men’s magazines of that era, like Irvin Johnson’s Tomorrow Man (which was small enough to discreetly fit into a jacket pocket) clearly targeted a gay audience with photos that were more about homo-eroticism than athleticism.
And its popularity didn’t move unnoticed by the mainstream muscle mag. Publishing gigantic Joe Weider launched similar gay-themed magazines like Adonis and Body Beautiful as guide competition.
You could say the lines
Pro Bodybuilding: Fewer Fanboys?
RT_Nomad25
the damn tanning and spray tan
Though it was necessary to not receive washed out by the lighting, I liked that aspect the least of all contest prep. I got as much instinctive tan as I could before the fake tanning effort.
It wasn’t uncommon for a “rookie” to possess the tan running down his chest and belly, into his trunks, and there were the splotches, where some tan stuck and other places it didn’t.
I remember just before prejudging the promoter picked a contestant he knew from the field and “attempted” to adjust the lighting.
Surely the technology is there to adjust delicate intensity to the individual contestant by now.
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Chris_Shugart26
This poor guy got internet famous for his lousy choice. Maybe he just ran out of mahogany deck stainer:
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Njord27
I’m content this post is here, because regarding sexual fetishists, I was going to suggest that society is broadly more accepting of homosexuals now and they don’t have to obscure in bodybuilding or similar audiences anymore.
I’m willing to bet a much greater than realized portion of the fan base was always closet homosexuals.
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Pro Bodybuilding's Other Side?
Chris_Colucci1
You know, some people say that professional bodybuilding has a large queer following, and that the “sport” might be nothing more than a sneaky way for men to enjoy seeing muscley oiled-up men wearing next to nothing.
I really can’t realize why people would be so narrow-minded and so quick to stereotype. Really, it escapes me.
HugeMutha2
I tend to think of myself more in terms of weightlifting than bodybuilding.
Professor_X3
I think the posing trunks should cover more area like they used to decades ago. I don’t even understand who started the “striated glutes” bullshit. But then, I also think that the level of being “ripped” should be reduced and obliterate the use of diuretics. The pic of Dennis James in the picture thread weeks away from the contest is about the level of condition they should compete in instead of the “bone dry” look that kills people.
As far as your topic, any time you have guys showing any parts of their body, you would ahve to be incredibly stupid to think homosexuals wouldn’t accept notice. I honestly don’t see what that has to do with anything though because h
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