tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post4975661384614908944..comments2023-09-25T10:15:41.979-04:00Comments on NYSocBoy's Beefcake and Bonding: Prince ValiantNYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-52258410310830357322021-08-07T13:04:37.880-04:002021-08-07T13:04:37.880-04:00"And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwe..."And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear. Claude Raines was the Invisible Man." NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-39076303394049196682021-08-07T13:02:25.598-04:002021-08-07T13:02:25.598-04:00"...fur underwear..." Amazon here I come..."...fur underwear..." Amazon here I come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-29392550404654584772021-08-06T08:39:45.734-04:002021-08-06T08:39:45.734-04:00Look at Flash Gordon another comic strip from the ...Look at Flash Gordon another comic strip from the same era- he spends a lot time shirtless jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04042785568975031327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-91379196601084885402021-08-06T05:25:07.342-04:002021-08-06T05:25:07.342-04:00It does seem like a main draw of the strip was the...It does seem like a main draw of the strip was the opportunity to see Val shirtless. He usually wore a suit of armor, but Foster found lots of reasons to strip him down. Hal Foster was also the first artist to draw a Tarzan comic.NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-90629415970329919342021-08-06T04:19:10.782-04:002021-08-06T04:19:10.782-04:00In the 1930s, being single your whole life still w...In the 1930s, being single your whole life still wasn't seen as particularly odd, resulting in a bachelor subculture...which yeah, attracted a lot of men interested in other men sexually. But a LOT of what makes one "gay" or "straight" post-Stonewall would be seen as "odd" but not some types of sex between men. (An example of hetero behavior that would be seen as "funny" back then would be the phobia of changing in the locker room. Basically in the pre-Stonewall days, there was no real reason to be modest around other guys.)<br /><br />That said, in general, the loincloth aesthetic in a medieval setting, while fine in North America, where nearly every culture where the weather allows it, the men wear a loincloth, in Scandinavia it feels, as one YouTuber put it, "I don't watch He-Man because I hate women. I watch He-Man because I love men."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-39843694521949047012021-08-05T09:12:22.500-04:002021-08-05T09:12:22.500-04:00I wonder if Foster was gay-yes he was married but ...I wonder if Foster was gay-yes he was married but never had any childrenjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04042785568975031327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-87503999015135737462021-01-10T19:00:36.008-05:002021-01-10T19:00:36.008-05:00Hal Foster created beautiful art work for Prince V...Hal Foster created beautiful art work for Prince Valiantjoepelprohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05238830326701750748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-80260680046134783692018-03-03T09:18:11.558-05:002018-03-03T09:18:11.558-05:00Speaking of beefcake in medieval fantasy, I'm ...Speaking of beefcake in medieval fantasy, I'm convinced that's why D&D offers a barbarian class, so you can bring in some Frazetta beefcake for gay men of the Icosahedral Brotherhood. Of course, no one will ever admit they liked watching men in fur underwear. But it found its way into American PC RPGs (more specifically a time roughly corresponding to Gen 2 consoles), and from there to JRPGs, since most of them are heavily influenced by Ultima via Dragon Quest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com