Bodybuilding 
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SOURCE: The Baffler
11/23/2021
Macho Macho Men: The Queer History of Pumping Iron
by Benjamin Weil
"While straightness is front-and-center in the world of bodybuilding, homosexuality is everywhere and nowhere to be seen."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/23/2021
When Men Started to Obsess Over Six-Packs
by Conor Heffernan
Today's culture of Instagrammed abdominal muscles traces back to the time when nineteenth-century physical culture movements converged with the archaeological discovery of ancient Greek statuary (bodybuilders then used the new technology of photography in ways we'd recognize).
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