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  • Introduction & Epilogue
  • Index
  • Historical Pressings
    • Victorian Era
      • Muybridge
      • Foucault and Male Friendship
      • World's First Bodybuilder: Eugene Sandow
      • The 'Cult of Muscularity'
    • Edwardian Era
      • Frederick Holland Day
      • Baron von Gloeden
      • Bodybuilding
      • Building Beautiful Bodies
      • Bodies and Skyscrapers
      • WWI
    • 1920s/1930s
      • Tony Sansone
      • Nature Worship
      • Fascism
      • Propoganda
      • Surrealism
      • Herbert List
      • George Platt Lynes I
      • Australian Body Architecture I
    • 1940s
      • WWII George Platt Lynes II
      • WWII Minor White
      • WWII Physique Photographers I
      • WWII, gay erotica and uniforms
      • WWII & Tom of Finland
      • Australian Body Architecture II
    • 1950s/60s
      • Physique Photographers II
      • Early gay pornography
    • 1960s/70s
      • Colt Mags I
      • Bob Mizer/ AMG
      • Diane Arbus I
      • Robert Mapplethorpe
      • Diane Arbus II
      • Colt Mags II
    • Late 1970s
      • Arthur Tress
      • Bill Henson
    • 1980s
      • Bruce Weber
      • Herb Ritts
      • Openly Gay Bodies
    • Into the '90s
      • Sadao Hasegawa
      • Australian Body Architecture III - Art in The Age of AIDS
      • David Wojnarowicz
      • Australian Body Architecture IV - Bronzed Aussies
    • 21st century
  • Personal Press
    • Story One
      • Self-esteem & Body Image
    • Story Two
      • Order of Desirability
      • Depression & Body Image
    • Story Three
      • Self-Reflexivity
      • Possession by Desire
      • Unsafe Sex & Risk Assessment
      • Consciousness & Unsafe Sex
    • Story Four
      • Desire & Abuse
      • Self-esteem, Body image & HIV
    • Story Five
  • Eye-Pressure
  • Pressure Suit
  • Bench Press
    • The Cult of Muscularity
      • Asexual Masculinity
    • The Body & the Social Environment
      • Ethnicity & Bodybuilding
    • Science, Photography & the Body
      • Objective Truth
      • Dr. Barnados
      • Before & After photographs
    • Power & the Muscular Body
    • The Body Suit
      • Ironic Acting
      • 1950s Physique photographs I
    • The Phallic Armoured Body
      • 1950s Physique photographs II
      • Phallic Body, Phallic Product
    • Muscle Gods, Hot Jocks & Gay Desire
    • The Muscular Male Body: Positive and Negative Effects
      • Mishkind et al
    • Ageing & the Gay Body
      • Polite Porn
    • The New Gay Man: Ritual, Reflection & Reflexivity
  • (S)ex-Press
      • Foucault and friendship between men
    • Goffman's 'facework'
      • Definition of 'risk'
      • (Sub)conscious decision to have unsafe sex
    • Sex and Power
      • Negotiating Power
      • Desire
    • The Power of the Penis in Homosex
    • Sex and Communication Skills
      • Negotiating Safety in Homosex
      • Awareness of risk during Homosex
    • Giving/Receiving of Pleasure & the Development of Intimacy
    • The Dangers of Intimacy
    • Compulsive Sexual Behaviour in Gay Men
    • Foucault and Discovering New Pleasures
  • Eth(n)ical Press
  • Rubber Press
  • Femi-nancy Press
  • In-Press
    • The Commodification of Images of the Body
      • The Billy Doll I
    • Consuming the Appearance
      • Definition of 'Lifestyle'
      • Undermining dominant signs
    • Narcissism
      • Milk advertisments
    • Webs of Communication
      • The Imagery of the Phallus
      • Young and Gay
      • Society & the Creation of Media Images
    • Gay Pornography
      • Transition Between Physique Mags & Early Porno Mags
      • Super-8mm Films
      • Early 1980s Pornography
      • HIV and Muscular Bodies in Porn
      • Steriod Abuse
    • Contemporary Gay Male Pornography
      • The Billy Doll II
      • Foucault and New Pleasures
    • Non-American Directed Gay Pornography
      • Concerns About Ephebes
      • The Lineage of Images of Ephebes
      • Take It Like A Man
    • Alternative Images of Men
  • Re-Pressentation
  • Future Press
  • Index to the Project
  • Bibliography & Glossary
  • Thesis Notes I
    • Introduction & Summary
    • Defining Orthogonality
    • Development of Interview Questions & Methodology
  • Analysis of Data I:
    • Body Image Desire
    • Body Image Perception & Self-esteem
      • Development of Self-esteem: Reflected Appraisal & Social Comparison
      • Order of Desirability
    • Depression
  • Analysis of Data II:
    • Body Image, Self-esteem & (Un)safe Sex
      • Definition of 'Masculinity'
    • Subcategories:
    • Levels of Self-esteem
    • Situational Contexts
    • Communication & Negotiation in Sexual Encounters
    • Assessment of Risk
      • The Notion of Risk
      • Fear & the Taboo
      • Motivated Reasoning
      • On-line/Off-line Thinking
    • Levels of Control in Sexual Encounters
      • Intimacy & Control
    • (Sub)conscious Decision to have Unsafe Sex
      • Subliminal
      • Possession & Desire
      • Noumenal
    • Intimacy, Connection & Trust in Unsafe Sex
      • Intimacy
      • The Taboo of Strong Emotions
      • Possession
      • Trust
    • Consequences of Unsafe Sex
      • Guilt
    • Overall Interpretation of Body Image, Self-esteem and (Un)safe Sex
  • Evolving Theory:
    • Desire for (Non) Ritual Pleasures
    • The Textu(r)al Body
    • Body as Re(as)sem- blance, Body as Fetish
    • Diagram of Body Image, Self-esteem and (Un)safe Sex
  • Synopsis of Interview Respondents
  • Conclusion to the Research Project 'Pressing the Flesh'
  • Thesis Notes II - Research Notes and Papers
    • Minor White Archive photographs
      • 'The Tenptation of St. Anthony is Mirrors. 1948'
    • Kinsey Institute von Gloeden photographs
    • Kinsey Institute George Platt Lynes photographs
      • "Erection c.1952"
    • Kinsey Institute Physique Culture photographs & mags
      • Bruce of Los Angeles
      • Douglas: Detroit
      • Dick Falcon
      • Melan
      • Bob Mizer/ AMG
      • Karl Eller
      • Anonymous
      • Al Urban
      • Bob Mizer/ Physique Pictorial
      • Early Homo-sexual mags
    • Kinsey Institute Male Homosexual Catalogue photographs
    • Kinsey Institute Male Homosexual photographs
    • Kinsey Institute Male2Male Sex photographs
    • The One Institute/ IGLA Physique & Early Gay Porno mags
    • Mishkind and Mesomorphy
    • "Perfect Bound," William J. Mann XY Magazine
    • "In the Eye of the Beholder," Matthew Todd Attitude Magazine
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