Category: Male Beauty
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Maxim
Maxim is a monthly men’s magazine founded in 1995 that features articles about men’s health, fashion, sports, consumer goods, and other male activities and men’s culture. It is most readily identified with the rise of self-indulged, fashion-conscious metrosexuals. The magazine is also well known for its non-nude photography of female celebrities, models, musicians, and actresses,…
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Men’s Magazines
Magazines for American men, dealing variously with topics as diverse as politics, health and fitness, fashion and other aspects of consumerism, sexual health and performance, and travel, can be traced back to the 18th century. Since the 1980s and 1990s, magazines directed at men with a range of interests and sexual identities have expanded dramatically.…
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Male Grooming
The preoccupation with male grooming, most closely associated with the modern phenomenon of the metrosexual and his fastidious rituals of hair and skin care and physical fitness, is not simply the product of late-20th-century consumer culture. Men have been obsessed with their physical appearance for centuries. In the ancient Egyptian world, for example, men practiced…
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Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ)
Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) has been in existence for more than half a century. The magazine, originally owned by the publishers of Esquire (f. 1933) was launched in 1957, under the editorial direction of Everett Mattlin. This new publication, an upmarket venture intended to whet the consumer appetites of fashion-conscious men of style and provide a…