In 1945, he sets up Athletic Model Guild and launches Physique Pictorial, which goes on to publish thousands of images of muscular young men in distinctive posing pouches (made by Mizer’s own mother!).
Seminal US photographer Bob Mizer began to sell his black and white photographs of athletic young men by mail order. Some of these included same-sex couplings, of which the below is one of the tamer examples. In the late 1800s, an underground trade in postcards depicting naked models sprung up – sometimes referred to as ‘French postcards’. This is the first time some people might have got their hands on realistic photographic imagery of naked bodies. Soon after, early photographers produce images of nudes as aids for artists to paint and draw from. The first photographic processes arrived in the 1830s in France. Diarist Samuel Pepys mentions purchasing a copy, and says he intends to burn it afterwards so his wife doesn’t discover it. In it, two young women discuss sex in detail. Some scholars trace the beginning of pornography back to an anonymous, illustrated French book published in 1655, entitled L’Ecole des Filles. The printing press arrived in Europe in the mid-15th century, and images of sex followed soon after. Shunga woodblock art by Kitagawa Utamaro (Image: Public Domain) Below is the charmingly titled ‘Client lubricating a prostitute’ by Kitagawa Utamaro. It often featured sexual relations, including same-sex couplings. Shunga art was a specific form of woodblock art that flourished from the 13th to 19th century in Japan. The Greeks and Romans weren’t the only ones at it. An engraving on the Warren Cup (Photo: Public Domain) It features two engraving of male figures engaged in anal sex. A noteworthy artifact from this time is the Warren Cup, which resides in London’s British Museum.
This idea of male beauty carried on over to Roman Times. Perhaps surprising to consumers of gay porn today, Greeks considered the ideal male penis as small, thin and uncircumcised. Greek playwright Aristophanes summed up male beauty as ‘a gleaming chest, bright skin, broad shoulders, tiny tongue, strong buttocks, and a little prick.’ Some of these depicted same-sex relations, and many of them celebrated cultural ideals of male beauty. The ancient Greeks and Romans were among the first to feature erotic images on ceramics. Here is a brief look back on male-on-male porn from the ages… Pre-modern age One of the reasons VHS took off in the early 1980s was because it meant you no longer had to venture out to porn theaters. Soon after the invention of photographic plates in the 1800s, people began to take shots of nudes. It’s also been at the forefront of many technological advances. In fact, it’s been there since prehistoric times. However, the fascination with watching men have sex with one another is not new. Just two days before, gay porn star Armond Rizzo called out a studio for paying its sexually submissive performers less than their dominant scene partners, essentially creating a wage gap between tops and bottoms.It’s tempting to think gay porn is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was the second time in the same week that the gay porn industry was criticized by its actors for unfair practices. "Now that I am more experienced, I feel like a model should make no less than 1k." "When I started out I was making $500 per scene," said Nic Sahara. "Back when I worked for Boycrush we were only paid 400-500 per scene," one guy replied while another said that as recently as last year, he only received $300 for his first scene. "If you're a performer making less than 1k this isn’t me coming after you in any way," he said, "I just want everyone to realize what your worth instead of letting your studio decide for you."Ī number of models responded to the tweet, sharing just how much (or little) they were paid when they started out in the industry, citing specific studios who underpaid their performers. He clarified that he wasn't criticizing the models taking less money, but rather pointing out how studios might be exploiting their naivety. As performers can we go ahead and say that no one who is preforming for a studio should be getting paid any less than 1k a scene I hear about some of these new models scene rates and how multiple well known studios are knowingly taken advantage of young performers #1Kornothing- Joey Mills January 27, 2020