This idea of male beauty carried on over to Roman Times. A noteworthy artifact from this time is the Warren Cup, which resides in London’s British Museum. An engraving on the Warren Cup (Photo: Public Domain) It features two engraving of male figures engaged in anal sex. The Greeks and Romans weren’t the only ones at it. Shunga art was a specific form of woodblock art that flourished from the 13th to 19th century in Japan. It often featured sexual relations, including same-sex couplings. Shunga woodblock art by Kitagawa Utamaro (Image: Public Domain) Below is the charmingly titled ‘Client lubricating a prostitute’ by Kitagawa Utamaro. The printing press arrived in Europe in the mid-15th century, and images of sex followed soon after. Some scholars trace the beginning of pornography back to an anonymous, illustrated French book published in 1655, entitled L’Ecole des Filles. In it, two young women discuss sex in detail.
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Diarist Samuel Pepys mentions purchasing a copy, and says he intends to burn it afterwards so his wife doesn’t discover it. The first photographic processes arrived in the 1830s in France. Soon after, early photographers produce images of nudes as aids for artists to paint and draw from.
This is the first time some people might have got their hands on realistic photographic imagery of naked bodies. In the late 1800s, an underground trade in postcards depicting naked models sprung up – sometimes referred to as ‘French postcards’. Some of these included same-sex couplings, of which the below is one of the tamer examples. Seminal US photographer Bob Mizer began to sell his black and white photographs of athletic young men by mail order. Muscle men oil each other up for Physique Pictorial (Photo: Courtesy Bob Mizer Foundation) In 1945, he sets up Athletic Model Guild and launches Physique Pictorial, which goes on to publish thousands of images of muscular young men in distinctive posing pouches (made by Mizer’s own mother!).