Zeb Atlas
The Male Body as Art
Zeb (Andy Bick) began modeling for fitness and health magazines in the early 1990's, thanks to his powerhouse body getting noticed by the right people at bodybuilding shows. Nude modeling and erotica followed.
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Marble and Flesh: The Male Physique
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Poolside Zeb
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Basic Plumbing (part four)
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1980 Basic Plumbing (part two)
Lots of men just seem to have a natural talent when it comes to fixing things. Lots of other men don't. In part two of our series, we see that our shower stud has put on his robe and gone outside to see what he can do to fix his pipes at the source of the problem. When that doesn't do the job, he picks up the phone and calls for support: a professional to fix his pipes--the handy dandy plumber.
There's some nice photo editing going on with this magazine. The inclusion of inset pictures and close-ups, such as the model's hand on the railing, may not be sexual in nature but they certainly lend themselves to telling a more complete fantasy story.
It may be a porn cliche but it works. Consider Josman's great illustrative series The Plumber where a hunky older plumber comes to fix a leak and discovers the younger adult son home alone. It's a great storyline to bring them together. By the time the plumber leaves, the son's tushy is no longer a virgin. The faucet gets fixed, too!
As our storyline progresses, we get to know that our shower stud is named Jim Kennnedy.
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| Jim is calling the plumber via a 1980's telephone. Fashion may change. Technology may change. The desire for sex always stays the same. |
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Art Deco Eros
For many of his many fans, Benoit has taken the classic homoerotic undertones of J.C. Leyendecker's vintage work and opened the closet door for all to take a voyeur's look inside at the sexual desires and pleasures these men enjoy.
Included in this exciting world of sex was the notorious culture of Harlem drag balls in New York. Between roughly 1919 and 1935, an artistic movement that would come to be known as the "Harlem Renaissance" transformed the culture of uptown Manhattan not only as a result of its establishing new trends in black literature, music and politics but also for its scandalous night life and party culture. The lavish Harlem drag balls drew white men to come drinking and enjoy the carnivalesque parties where racial taboos were broken through sexual and gender nonconformity.
La Fontaine de Jouvence(The Fountain of Youth)
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1970's Gay Smut-O-Rama! Sons of Satan
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Controversy still remains about the motives and details of Lorca's murder. While not considered likely by most historians, some believe that it was his gay personal life that was the reason for his death instead of his politics and the govenment. It's believed that he died in 1936 when soldiers dragged him into a field, shot him and tossed his body into an unmarked grave. Franco's government tried to obliterate Lorca's memory. His books were prohibited, his name forbidden. His poetry has been translated into a dozen languages and his name is known worldwide.
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| Lorca and Dalí |
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Buddies!
Asshole Buddies Special featured 100 pages of all-color fun between some hairy and handsome gents. With stars like Nick Rodgers, J.W. King, Clay Russel, Steve York, Leo Ford, and Lee Brubaker it certainly had plenty of talent to go around.
Since this is all-color (earlier publications were mostly black and white because color was still very costly), looks to be pre-condom, and based upon the stars included, our guess is that this was an early 1980's release.
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Mark Jennings
Mark Jennings remains an adult entertainment star decades after his final performance, and just one look at the photo above helps to explain why. The legendary story of his entrance into smut goes that a young Mark (who was reportedly born in 1966) lived in Michigan and enjoyed hockey among other sports. Getting friendly-jibed by his buddies in the locker room showers about the big horse meat between his legs, he took advantage of his manly assets by going to work hustling his cock in smut during the mid 1980's. While there's very little confirmed biography existing about him, it's widely speculated that Mark was probably straight or bisexual; however Mark's actual sexuality remains unknown. Standing 5'11" with green eyes and a solid 150 pounds, he had a masculine, "freshly scrubbed" attractive face.
It's Mark work in both gay and bisexual films that made him a top box office draw. There was a Dan Parks (in 1984 he preformed in The All-American Man) prior to Mark Jennings. Indeed, he became a star twice--as both Dan Parks and Mark Jennings, largely performing in both gay and bisexual genres with a few straight roles.
Multiple stage names are common with male sex performers, but what's unique for that era is that he eventually began to use "Mark Jennings" for bisexual, straight and gay work.
Not all types of bisexual porn are viewed in the same way in our modern society. 'Female-on-female' bisexual porn (which includes a man at some point in the picture) has enjoyed a long history of commercial success. Many straight men (who purchase most porn) want to see this type of action and there's been no social stigma associated with men liking to look at naked women, especially when the women having sex together are also craving a stud to join in the party as well.
It's when there are two men getting it on, sharing one female, where things get uncomfortable for many self-identified straight men. 'Male-on-male' bisexual porn has often been thought of as an offshoot of gay smut, and oftentimes seen as just a cover for closeted gay men. Unfortunately, this perception of the masculine bisexual male has often been reinforced in bisexual gay smut itself, thanks to the miscasting of effeminate performers in roles where they are playing masculine parts for which they are just not believable.
All of this helps to explain the popularity of a model like Mark Jennings, who effectively performs in both the straight and gay sex scenes. In his work with other males, he's usually cast as a straight guy being orally serviced before penetrating his 10.5 inch penis deep into his partner (however, he did perform as a bottom as well). In his work with women, he equally seems to be enjoying himself.
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| Dan Parks (aka Mark Jennings) |
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| Mark's ample manhood being enjoyed by a female friend |
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| Looks like this lucky girl gets to polish the Jennings family jewels |
All of this helps to explain the popularity of a model like Mark Jennings, who effectively performs in both the straight and gay sex scenes. In his work with other males, he's usually cast as a straight guy being orally serviced before penetrating his 10.5 inch penis deep into his partner (however, he did perform as a bottom as well). In his work with women, he equally seems to be enjoying himself.
Factor in his large cock and a star is born, no matter who he is fucking. Fans of him performing as Dan Parks followed Mark over to bisexual smut.
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Mark Jennings performance in 1985's Best Friends with Jeff Cameron became a hit. Reviewers noted that the situations and activities were much more believable than most male bisexual porn. Cameron, who had real chemistry with Jennings, would not return Mark Reynolds’ sequel, Best Friends 2 in 1988. As an interesting side note, Jeff Cameron appears to have only ever been featured in Best Friends and then retired from the industry.
Mark appeared in more than 28 adult films. Unknown is what happened to Mark after he left the business. Please stay tuned for part two.
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Hello there, Mr. October!
One of the most-requested things that I've heard from VGMH friends over the last few years
relates to the month of October and Halloween, and specifically wishes to see some of our previous special stories and the haunted logos, which progress in a ghoulish delight over time during the month and climax on October 31st with smut we don't ever show otherwise. This is also the anniversary month of our little blog here, and I'm happy to be able to fulfill such requests for blasts from the past, and thank you for asking. I have not forgotten that we came to this place after another site had made it clear that queers like us were not welcome any longer with them. We all keep pushing on no matter what, and you have raised me and I thank you.
But back to more important things...What little clothing Mr. October's wearing is certainly stylish for the period. He seems in very serious concentration, and maybe it's just me, but that jack-o-lantern's one eye opening seems downright naughty and nice at the same time. As with other months in this vintage calendar, we see the mysterious hand (notice the bird tattoo) offering suggestions of what perhaps is yet to come for our model?
Dom (his real name was Dom Orejudos was) was 20 years old when he began using the name Etienne, when his work was published for the first time in 1953's "Tomorrow's Man" magazine, issue #8.
Born in Chicago on July 1st, 1933, Etienne was a dancer and choreographer with the Illinois Ballet Company for 15 years. In addition, he was a very respected businessman, famous for his male physique studies which became internationally known. He was the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and was nominated/received three Emmy Awards.
His artwork is understandably sometimes confused with that of Tom of Finland. Both men definitely had an appreciation for very masculine guys and both enjoyed creating intense fantasy worlds. It's been reported that both artists knew one another and liked and respected one another's work. We'll take a look at more of his work in the future.
One of Etienne's most-favored artistic styles was to show a charismatic character becoming the sexual brunt of a masculine joke, usually at the mercy of other men surrounding him. To some, his work pushes the envelope of aggressive machismo sex that's sometimes depicted, which the artist himself once described as trying to capture man's "fears, needs, and unapologetic raw power." He died of AIDS complications in 1991.
EXTRA TREAT!
Some of the adult games and sports that men like to play together can be confusing to onlookers who don't quite understand the rules of play. It looks like this jock stayed in the locker room a little too long after the game, and now he's about to take one for the team and his own enjoyment (that strapped ass looks like it's been in this accommodating penetration position before). As always, Etienne can't resist adding a bit of fun irony---A jockster in white socks is about to get a beefy fist 'rammed'up his tight ass while being constrained on a table marked PROPERTY OF RAMS.
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Autumn Crisp: 1960's Kim Reed
Mr. Reed posed for Don Whitman's Western Photography Guild during the 1960's. A former U.S. Navy lieutenant, Don began his business in Denver, Colorado in 1947. Don founded the Mr. Colorado bodybuilding competition which was a great way to meet potential models. While the outdoor Rocky Mountains served as a stage set for the majority of his photographs, he also captured the masculinity of men in traditional studio settings, such as these with Kim Reed. Kim had the clean cut 'next door' young man look that made him a favorite for many.
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Horny 'Lil Devil
It looks as if Ron Teufel's found the perfect Halloween costume to wear, and it fits him perfectly!
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Hollywood Star Franklin Pangborn
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| Pangborn with a famous Tarzan |
Yet Pangborn's usual stock of characters could fit drama as well. Actually, in Hero his coordinator Now, Voyager as the cruise tourist director with legendary Bette Davis. As the talent of the silent era slipped into the shadows of Hollywood while television was in its infacncy, he used his connections and skills to work often on the little screen.
- Exit Smiling (1926) - first film
- Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
- Not So Dumb (1930)
- The Loud Mouth (1932)
- The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
- International House (1933)
- Bed of Roses (1933)
- Menu (1933)
- Wild Poses (1933 Little Rascals short)
- Flying Down to Rio (1933)
- Strictly Dynamite (1934)
- Young and Beautiful (1934)
- 1,000 Dollars a Minute (1935)
- The Headline Woman (1935)
- Tomorrow's Youth (1935)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- Easy Living (1937)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
- Vivacious Lady (1938)
- Four's a Crowd (1938)
- Carefree (1938)
- Just Around the Corner (1938)
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
- Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
- Christmas in July (1940)
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
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Brokeback Mountain
Without pandering to tired old stereotypes, Brokeback Mountain depicts the complex and deep love between two masculine cowboys over the course of their lives. It’s set in the American West between 1963 and 1983. What makes the movie truly unique is that the story is not about gay men fighting against specific discrimination or wrongful acts that have happened against them, as other gay-related movie themes have often portrayed. This is a personal love story. And it’s a tragic love story, because we the audience witness firsthand how they have been conditioned by society, beginning as little boys, to treat their love as something shameful that is to be hidden. We see that these two men were not out protesting to change the world. They were not in court trying to avenge wrongful actions from employers. These two quiet-living people were trying to do what a homophobic society demanded of them in order to fit in: pretend that their love didn’t exist, and the high cost this lie demanded upon many lives. To drive home the point, the audience learns that one of them never forgot childhood memories of a man who was murdered because he was gay and his recollections of the lack of sympathy about this man’s violent death. Secretly (and not so secretly to those closest to them) they suffered all of their lives.
Whether intentional or not, the film does not demand that the two leading men self-define their relationship (or their sexuality) so that the audience can then comfortably detach in order to judge them. As British reviewer Matthew E. Crossnaught pondered in relation to the movie’s two masculine characters and their complicated relationship: “How many married men, like me, have had at least one time [with another man], or have known or suspected such secrets about those that we love?” Once the film began to become popular with audiences and more theatres began to show it, the conservative right began turning up their assault on the movie in an attempt to discourage its acceptance and sympathetic storyline.
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On the pages of the Blue Boy magazine...
First published in California in 1975, the magazine was originally advertised in the 1970's as a gay version of Playboy or Penthouse. In addition to sexy nude guys, every issue typically included articles about male fashions, male sex, television and film reviews, and the secrets of finding that true male love. It would also often have some good articles regarding politics, homophobia, and gay rights. The magazine gained a whole new audience when Cyndi Lauper mentioned the magazine by name in the first lines of her 1984 song "She Bop." Lauper has stated that finding a copy of Blueboy lying around in the recording studio provided the impetus for writing "She Bop" song in the first place. Here we get to enjoy Rick, who was both the cover model and centerfold for the March 1981 issue.
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More Happy Nudes!
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| It's fun to exercise! |
Thanks to vintage nudist magazines, we get to enjoy these folks taking a break from clothing in the sunshine! It's nice that the photos seem to admire the 'Jacks' as much as the 'Jills'.
Which one do you think he's serenading?
Not even a single drop spilled. He's a pro.
What a handsome couple. It says "Her performance may seem a bit stilted, but this is her very first attempt to use the things! Now she can be taller than he!"
We noticed that this magazine advertised it's all full-color content inside.
Nature is so grand...just look at that bush!
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Rich Koch
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March Mystery Meat
NAME THE STUD
Discovering this photo set while surfing on the Internet has become something of a rite of passage for generations of young men, resulting in untold (and uncontrollable) sticky eruptions at countless keyboards and monitors. In a world of shaved twinks, who can blame anyone for shouting out loud "NOW THAT'S A MAN!" when they see him for the first time? Standing a sturdy 5'9" and coming in at a solid 170 pounds, this gentleman carrying a big rod became an even bigger hit beginning around 1995. If you can ID our cocky cop, please leave a comment below. The answer this weekend (with more photos).
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Spring's a Poppin!
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Vintage Male: Hairy Vince
Fans of hairy chests (and treasure trails and hairy butts and scruffy cute faces) may recall Vince's fur and his debut appearance here at VGMH during a previous March . Jason over at SpunkWorthy said that Vince had first dropped his pants back in 2010, caused something of a sensation among fans of the popular site, and then "fell off the radar" as people often do in smut as they move on to do other things. Vince also was something of a 'cock star' here at VGMH with lots of emails and comments requesting MORE MORE MORE!
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