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Fitness Culture

SOURCE: Perspectives on History
9/29/2021

Muscle Motion:

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

A 1983 home workout video featuring the Chippendales dancers reflected the convergence of multiple cultural changes in home video, fitness culture, pornography, and the mainstreaming of female desire. Everything has a history!

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Fitness Culture

Muscle Motion:

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela