Beefcake

Reg Park, a bodybuilder who posed for many early muscle magazines

Beefcake is a performance or a form of glamour photography depicting a large and muscular male body.[1] Beefcake is also a publication genre. A role a person plays in a performance may be called beefcake. The term was believed to be first used by Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky.[2]

  1. ^ Dixon, Wheeler W. (24 February 2000). Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791445136. Archived from the original on 2022-10-31. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  2. ^ p.120 Hofler, Robert The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson Carroll and Graf 2005