physique magazine

noun

A magazine featuring sexually suggestive photographs of muscular men in athletic poses, presented in the guise of bodybuilding but intended as homosexual erotic imagery at a time when this was socially unacceptable.

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Meanings

nounphysique magazine (plural physique magazines)

plural physique magazines

  1. historicalA magazine featuring sexually suggestive photographs of muscular men in athletic poses, presented in the guise of bodybuilding but intended as homosexual erotic imagery at a time when this was socially unacceptable.
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APA

physique magazine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/physique%20magazine

MLA

“physique magazine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/physique%20magazine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “physique magazine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/physique%20magazine.

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