Sexual art is usually underground or very niched. Because of this, artists throw all inhibition away and correct the politically incorrect. There are no holy cows in the pinup business, just beautiful pinup girls (and boys) of all shapes, sizes and sexes.

Hard to find but worth the effort

It's true that if you do a Google search of the term “male pinups” you wouldn't get much of that retro beefcake fun. Not to mention the poor results on “African American pinups”. But if you look deep and maybe throw in a couple of names, you will find Dorothy Dandridge and a handful of naked men (not together! )

Sexual art (A.K.A. “pornography” ) has never been subjected to the cultural snob's censorship. What's the point? Smut is smut, right?

Wrong!

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Personally, I consider anything made with premeditated intension as art. So what? Is a carpenter that makes kitchen cupboards an artist or just a professional craftsmen? Could he be both?

The new American liberationists contrivances have a deeper identification with commercial art than the plagiarism or adaptation of itsimages. They share the impersonality of advertising- agency art-department productions. They are entirely cerebral and mechanical; the hand of the artist has no part in the evolution of the work but is the mere executer of the idea-man's command,though in this case the artist himself is usually the idea-man (sometimes the idea for work comes from friends or sponsors). Nor is the self of the artist involved in the proses of creation.

Harold Rosenberg, “The Anxious Object") , 1965, p. 75

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