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• Amorous Pop Culture
Gary Indiana reviews Adam Parfrey's It's a Man's World:
Along with their characteristic obsession with sex as a pointedly underdescribed, lavishly prefigured mating of hunters and gatherers, the men's magazines devoted to subjects closer to home than saber-toothed tiger attacks or "Teen Terrors of the Tamiami Trail" suggest the suffocating, panic-stricken undercurrent of American conformity, in features like "What Are Your Homosexual Tendencies?" and "How to Tell if Your Girlfriend Is a Lesbian." The racial tensions roiling under the era's apple pie crust erupt in both the Photoplay type of Hollywood item ("Joan Fontaine and Her Negro Screen Lover Court Racial Explosion!") and more directly libidinal, generic articles ("The Interracial Sex Experimenters") whose illustrations stimulated the miscegenative impulses the articles decried or condemned.
It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps