Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture

CONTENTS

1. Gay Gym Culture

• What Is Gay Gym Culture?
• Stereotypes
• The Origin of Gay Gym Culture
• The Body Beautiful
• Critics

2. Greek Gym Culture and The Greek Ideal

• Greek Homosexuality
• The Greek Ideal
• The Greek Gymnasium

3. The Modern Ideal

• The Fall and Rise of the Gym Built Body
• The fall: The Romans and Christianity
• The Renaissance: The Homoerotic Body Rediscovered
• Bodybuilding: Building the Modern Ideal Man

4. Muscle Media

• Photography: Marketing the Ideal Man
• Physique Magazines
• Pornography
• Fashion and Advertising
• The Internet: GayGymCulture.com
• Media's Social Influence and Pressure
• The Gay Ideal

5. The Gay Gym

• Gay Liberation and the Rise of the Gay Gym
• The Clone
• The Public Homoerotic Body
• The Gay Gym Today
• Modern Gay Vs. Straight Gyms

6. Muscle Boys

• Body Image and Socialization
• Competing on the Gay Market and Successful "Marketing"
• Fitness and Health
• Building Masculinity
• Building Community
• Sex, Dating and Relationships
• Getting Pumped Up

7. The Poz Jock

• AIDS and Wasting
• The Anabolic Steroid Solution
• Survival of the Buffest
• Risk and Benefits
• The Law and the Black Market
• The Aesthetic Debate
• To Juice or Not to Juice

8. The Gay Athlete

• Athletes and the Gym
• A New Phenomenon or Out of the Closet?
• High School Athletics
• History of Modern Gay Athletics
• The Gay Games
• The AIDS Rides
• Professional Sports and the Athletic Closet

9. The Circuit Boy

• The Circuit
• The Circuit Boy
• Circuit Training
• The Mr. Circuit Boy Competition
• Sex, Love and the Gay Fraternity
• Party Drugs
• Guilty Pleasures

10. The Muscle Bear

• Bear Culture
• Bearness
• The Muscle Bear
• The Muscle Bear Paradox
• Bear Fitness and Health

11. The Older Male

• Health
• Independent Living
• Steroids and the Older Male
• Aesthetics, Dating and The Attractive Older Male
• Social Outlet
• Midlife Refocus
• Generational Differences
• The Fountain of Youth

12. The Locker Room

• The High School Locker Room
• The Moral Dilemma: Sex in Public Spaces
• The Voyeur and The Exhibitionist
• Locker Room Sex
• Straight Men Who Have Sex with Men
• The Bashful
• Geographical and Environmental Differences
• Boys will be boys…