Table of Contents

Contents
Preface

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Where We Are
• The New Man Emerges
• Chapter 2. Fine Lines: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography
• The Early Aesthetes
• The Renaissance of Man
• Modern Heroes
• Art As Sex
• Picture This
• In Defense of Stereotypes
• Chapter 3. A Real Head Turner: Fiction
• Myths and Legends
• Romancing the Body
• Best-Selling Bodies
• Pink Pages
• Bedtime Bodies
• Chapter 4. Buy Me: Advertising
• The Smell of It
• Briefing the Stereotype
• Gorilla Suits
• The Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man
• Accessories and Then Some Make the Man
• If It Says So in a Magazine, It Must Be True
• Here’s the Beef
• Chapter 5. Me Tarzan, You Wimp: Films
• Good Bodies
• Bad Bodies
• Soft Bodies, Aging Sex Symbols, and Rubber Suits
• Chapter 6. Body Guide: Television
• Prime-Time Beef
• Daytime Hunks
• Singing the Body Fantastic
• Chapter 7. Bigger Is Better: Pornography and Erotica
• The Male Centerfold
• Chapter 8. Skin and Bones: Dieting and Eating Disorders
• Chapter 9. The Unkindest Cut of All: Cosmetic Surgery
• Popular Procedures
• What Price Beauty?
• Chapter 10. The Fitness Fallacy: Muscles
• Sex and Salvation
• Muscles Equal Survival
• Muscle Medicine
• Chapter 11. Is He Cute?: Gay Male Culture
• The Real Men of Gay Sex
• Going for the Gay Dollar
• The Gay Media
• Chapter 12. Where Do We Go from Here?
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Edisol Dotson (Author)