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THE ROARING TWENTIES AND THE DEPRESSION: BARBELLS AND SEXOLOGY --1919 Mcfadden Publishing Company publishes one of the first confessional/pulp magazines, True Story --1920s: “Roaring Twenties”; major changes in women’s fashion and lifestyle occur, such as short skirts, no corsets, and smoking in public. In select urban areas, like Greenwich Village in New York City, discrete “masquerade balls” take place in which cross-dressing and homosexual behavior are permitted. 
--1920 French film Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly, produced and released; features hardcore gay sex --late 1920s: Mcfadden is publishing confessional “pulp magazines” like True Detective; content is somewhat “racy” 
--1924 George Jowett begins editing The Arena, one of the first specifically bodybuilding magazines; Tony Sansone appears on the cover nearly naked 
--1927 The Arena becomes associated with the Milo Barbell Company in Philadelphia and Jowett loses control of it 
--1929 The stock market crashes and the Great Depression begins. The hems of women’s skirts go down. --1929 First film to contain gay sex comes out (privately), entitled The Surprise of a Knight --early 1930s: Hugo Gernsback founds Sexology magazine. The magazine even contained articles on homosexuality (Freud addressed the issue in a markedly sympathetic manner for the time period) and masturbation, which still reflected the attitudes of the time, but just the fact that these issues were discussed in a less condemnatory manner was revolutionary. The articles attempted to discuss homosexuality and masturbation in a more psychological and scientific manner: heterosexual marriage is still the moral standard, but if one understands the problem and how it makes the person feel in his or relationship to social norms, perhaps one can help the person to change or at least not practice something harmful. 
--1932: Bob Hoffman changes Health & Strength magazine to Strength & Health magazine; it begins to circulate more extensively in the United States. 
--1934: Hays Code enforced, restricting both explicit and implicit sexual content in movies --1932: Nude photos of Tony Sansone, a famous bodybuilder, begin to circulate --1936 Strength & Health celebrates its fourth year of existence; by this time, Bob Hoffman’s physical culture empire, centered in York, Pennsylvania and called the York Barbell Company, is growing rapidly --1937 George Quaintance, famous gay erotic artist, is at this date the highest paid illustrator for Gay French Magazine --1939 Sexology publishes an article entitled “Friendship vs. Homosexuality” |
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