Life magazine archives

[dbd1830]

Perhaps covered in a previous thread, but I'm surprised at some of the old Life Magazine photos of athletes from the past.

Cincinnati Reds

Reds 2

Cleveland Browns 1951

Redskins quarterback Eddie LeBaron

 

[BDS]

Great pictures.... good find !

 

[deleted4701]

damn!

 

[PornForPatric]

I'd hit it.

Some male nudes:

LIFE - Hosted by Google
LIFE - Hosted by Google

Y'all might be interested, I posted a video last week using many photos from Life magazine, other magazines and private collections. It is just a slideshow of men nude during WWII. I wish the mods would allow video embedding from Youtube.

 

[SirConcis]

These baseball player pictures are interesting. In one of them, I think the guy is uncut. This would indicate that young american adults in late 1930s were not yet widely circumcised.

 

[ActionBuddy]

Cool... I always found stuff to masturbate to in National Geographic.

 

[dbd1830]

PfP, thanks, there are some good military photos in the Life archive as well.

 

[223790]

Proves what I have always said that prudishness about nudity among men is a new phenomenon. This is a great example of old being better than new.

 

[pdxjoe]

Proves what I have always said that prudishness about nudity among men is a new phenomenon. This is a great example of old being better than new.

I agree, for those of us who are older these pictures show the norm when we were younger. I think the prudishness has come about in the last 20 years or so, during the feminist and gay movements. I continue to hope we can turn this around and return to the openess of my youth.

 

[B_henry miller]

I agree. Feminism and the gay rights movement killed this. I don't understand how exactly.

 

[SirConcis]

Another aspect of those pictures that is good: In most pictures of the 40s and even 50s and earlyer as well, adult males that are pictured as athletic tend to be fatter and less atjletic than current standards.

But in those pictures, it showed baseball players with "modern bodies" in terms of athletic shapes/muscle and body fat levels. It breaks an image that back then, athletic men wwere much fatter than now.

 

[dbd1830]

Just a few more...

Cleveland Vs. Browns - Football - Hosted by Google

Roger Maris

 

[dbd1830]

Okay, I'll retry the Maris pic:

Roger Maris Yankee Ballplayer - Hosted by Google

 

[paulstud]

i assume there's no uptightness about nudity in the armed forces today either -- don't they have toilets without stall doors -- or without stalls at all? Always wonder how long it takes to get used to THAT. I mean after you've seen a guy wipe himself. it'd be no big deal just having him wave his dick around -- unlesss, of course, his dick WAS a "big deal."

 

[B_henry miller]

By the way, I love how all these pictures say "FOr personal non-commercial use only." Makes it sound like people are going to beat off to them, which they probably will, actually.

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

These baseball player pictures are interesting. In one of them, I think the guy is uncut. This would indicate that young american adults in late 1930s were not yet widely circumcised.

No, they say that RIC didn't start until the late 1940s. The circumcision rates were negligable until the 1950s

 

[Frodo46888]

In those old pics you don't see as often the bulging, sculpted muscles of today's athletes and bodybuilders in part because back then, few men went to a gym regularly to work out. Also, today there is a greater importance given to the cosmetic value of a muscular build. In the 1940s, muscles were valued for their functionality, not so much for their appearance.

 

[203602]

for some reason, the old photos i find extremely erotic.

 

[bigdicksarebest]

No wonder I liked looking at Life magazine

 

[B_henry miller]

for some reason, the old photos i find extremely erotic.

Men back then had a masculine quality they (we) don't have today. You can almost smell the testosterone and sweat coming off of these pictures.