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Thursday, April 15, 2021
Grassy Pair
I think I've seen these two before in a Wyngate and Bevins "nudist" piece.
I hope I'm not denigrating the models, but it seems that Wyngate & Bevins used models not quite in the same calibre as most physique models, perhaps to emphasize the nudist aspect over fitness.
When the censorship floodgate opened after 1967, and already existing transition from bodybuilder types to younger and "prettier" models accelerated. Some of these types did work out (or do manual labor) so it wasn't universal by any means. Later, the built up model came back into fashion as in some Playgirl types. Colt seems to have stuck with the fitter types all along.
Facial features as well as physical build go in and out of fashion as much as clothes. The Sixties was very much the decade of the young, which perhaps explains the popularity of the lean and lithe model at that time. That was the main reason for the final separation between the bodybuilding world and gay erotica in male nude photography. I have heard it said, however, that the gay fitness model emerged in the Eighties as "lean" was being by then being associated with the ravages of AIDS, and a pumped up musculature denoted health as much as fitness.
Yes, a lot of gays in the 80's beefed up so as not to look ill. One commentator even said the emergence of the "bear movement" in the early 90's was for that reason, but I think it was mainly because so many baby boomers were hitting middle age.
I've only been to one (all male) nudist camp, and it was much greener and less stony and dry than this place seems to be.
ReplyDeleteIt's California, but looks like Texas scrub land. Probably had thorns, too.
DeleteI hope I'm not denigrating the models, but it seems that Wyngate & Bevins used models not quite in the same calibre as most physique models, perhaps to emphasize the nudist aspect over fitness.
ReplyDeleteWhen the censorship floodgate opened after 1967, and already existing transition from bodybuilder types to younger and "prettier" models accelerated. Some of these types did work out (or do manual labor) so it wasn't universal by any means. Later, the built up model came back into fashion as in some Playgirl types. Colt seems to have stuck with the fitter types all along.
DeleteFacial features as well as physical build go in and out of fashion as much as clothes. The Sixties was very much the decade of the young, which perhaps explains the popularity of the lean and lithe model at that time. That was the main reason for the final separation between the bodybuilding world and gay erotica in male nude photography. I have heard it said, however, that the gay fitness model emerged in the Eighties as "lean" was being by then being associated with the ravages of AIDS, and a pumped up musculature denoted health as much as fitness.
DeleteYes, a lot of gays in the 80's beefed up so as not to look ill. One commentator even said the emergence of the "bear movement" in the early 90's was for that reason, but I think it was mainly because so many baby boomers were hitting middle age.
DeleteMe gustaría tener un Amigo así, para practicar nudiismo en lugares solitarios y desérticos!!!
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