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Stanley Stellar,
in print.
Don't Worry BoysThe new Stanley Stellar book is here. Take a closer look and bring a copy home.
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New books,
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Just inFresh photo books from the artists and publishers we want on the shelf. Shipping late October.
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Kaelan Strouse Wants to Know Why Sex and God Are ‘Separate Things’
Kaelan Strouse wants to know why we treat them as separate things. Read the interview.
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Crotch Issue 15 comes in multiple covers. We're carrying Leo, Johnny, Christopher, Josh, Gonzalo and Dean, brand new from the UK and shipped in plain packaging.
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Pit Stop No. 1
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Mechanics, muscle cars and the men who keep them running. Every page of the issue, scanned cover to cover and free to read when you sign up for AD/LIB.
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Digital archiveOur free sample issue, Pit Stop No. 1, is open to everyone. Membership opens the whole collection.
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A closer look at one original issue: what's inside, who made it, and the condition of the copy for sale.
Mandate · January 1981
Al Parker in the nude, Shirley MacLaine in conversation, and a trip to the San Francisco Club Baths, all in one bright January 1981 copy of Mandate.
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People, publications and the culture around them, with the source material close at hand.
People first. Long conversations with performers, writers and artists, and histories of the publications in the Backroom.
Kaelan Strouse Wants to Know Why Sex and God Are ‘Separate Things’
After seven years, Kaelan Strouse was expelled from his ashram by email. Since then he’s posted nude online, kept talking about God,…
Diego Vox Keeps an Original Jim French on His Living Room Wall
The Brazilian performer on Re-Entry, foreskin, raving, mid-century botanicals, and why the un-manicured version is the one worth watching.
Mak Aarons Is Staying In
The singer and adult creator on Amy Winehouse, voice memos, answering his own mail, the house he has to pay for, and…
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Original vintage print, filed three ways. Pick a drawer.
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Find a person, studio, publisher or year. The Card Catalog connects the stories, scans and original copies in the archive.
Posing straps and pencil drawings from the 1950s and 60s. Physique Pictorial, Young Adonis, Go Guys.
FormatSerialsThe monthlies men waited for. In Touch, Mandate, Playguy, Drummer.
FormatStudio issuesStraight from the studios. Colt, Surge, Falcon, Athletic Model Guild.
FormatPerformer albumsOne man, cover to cover. Al Parker, Jack Wrangler and more.
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