Bel Ami: Kris Evans & Ryan Kutcher (Couples Photo Session)

That doesn’t surprise me. I thoroughly enjoyed Undergear, and the strapless jockstrap blew my mind (I almost died imagining the photo shoot). But I never jacked off to it. Exercise for Men Only was more my speed.

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Here’s the thing: I’m just old enough to remember when Undergear and International Male were the opposite. You refer to Photoshop, but obviously Photoshop hasn’t been around forever. Before Photoshop, there was airbrushing, and it was usually used to de-enhance the frontal bulge. I remember when they finally stopped doing that and started letting the men be men. Once that change happened, the exercise magazines got more graphic too. To me, the wow moment was when EMO put Gabe Kapler on the cover with basically a stocking cap over his dick, not only because his scrotum and shaft were showing separation on a magazine cover, but also because he was a pro athlete. It was impossible to say this wasn’t sexual (just like the Pumping Muscle franchise couldn’t say their nudity was nonsexual when the photographer started fondling the models), which meant that he was in on it and had to be doing it at least partly for pleasure since that rag could not have paid as well as his baseball contract. I don’t think he’s gay but I’m certain that he knew he was posing for gay men, and at the time, that was a big deal to me. Bigger than his big delicious nutsack.

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