Weasels Ripped My Flesh!
I watched myself being eaten alive.
Flophouses, Floozies, and Forgetfulness.
Men's Magazines in the 1950s
In the postwar era in the USA, a dozen or more "men's" magazines proliferated through the country. They featured lots of sex and violence, usually in the form of lurid "true" stories. They also featured lots and lots of half naked hypermasculine men on their covers in a variety of settings. I'm sure that more than a few gays enjoyed them along with all the hetero guys looking for tips on how to pick up floozies and jilt no longer wanted fiances. So get ready for a big dose of testosterone as I give you a tour of the genre today. Oh, and we'll get to those weasels at the end of the set.
Wonder if operation bootleg in Boston included Jospeh Kennedy known to have worked with the mob to smuggle booze during prohibition and perhaps back at it again. Civil war in Cuba, another highlight of Cold War shenanigans so common at that time. And the facts of life, if you don’t know them at that age you’re a lost cause.
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Old Joe Kennedy was indeed a criminal and a Nazi sympathizer. His Irish nationalist leanings caused him to loathe the British, yet he managed to get appointed ambassador to the UK.
DeleteI don't know if actual models were used for inspiration, but those artists certainly knew how to draw a man!
ReplyDeleteDid they ever!!!
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