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'''Beefcake magazines''' were [[magazine]]s published in [[North America]] in the 1930s to 1960s that featured photographs of attractive, muscular young men in athletic poses. While their primary market was [[Homosexuality|gay]] men, until the 1960s, they were typically presented as being magazines dedicated to encouraging [[Physical fitness|fitness]] and [[health]]: the models were often shown demonstrating [[Physical exercise|exercises]]. Because of the conservative and [[homophobia|homophobic]] social culture of the era, and because of [[censorship]] laws, [[gay pornography]] could not be sold openly. Gay men turned to [[beefcake]] magazines, which could be sold in newspaper stands, book stores and [[pharmacy|pharmacies]]. Beefcake magazines were often the only connection that [[The closet|closeted]] gay men had to their sexuality. [[Gay pornography]] pioneer [[Bob Mizer]]'s [[Athletic Model Guild]], or AMG, produced ''Physique Pictorial'', the first all-nude and all-male magazine, and the film ''[[Beefcake (film)|Beefcake]]'' documents his work and the growth of the Beefcake magazine industry.