Männlich · No. 2 / 1967
Minneapolis, 1967: DSI’s Männlich puts the male nude in full color and says, right on the title page, that it’s about time.
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Condition report
Fair. A 1967 color pictorial that still pops, with honest scuffs, a shop's handwritten price sticker and some mild water damage, a light water mark on the title page. Every mark is in the photos.
Flaws notedCover wear, Writing, stamps, or labels, Stains or moisture marks
PagesNot fully verified
The story
DSI was two men in Minneapolis, Lloyd Spinar and Conrad Germain, who started in 1963 selling directories and grew into what one historian calls arguably the largest gay-owned business in the world by 1967. They also took on the federal government. Charged with dozens of obscenity counts over their nude male magazines, they won, and the fight helped open the mail to full-frontal male nudes at a time when the physique world was still hiding behind posing straps.
Männlich, copyright 1967 and marked First Printing, is DSI in that moment, and the title page says so outright: plenty of female nudes are available, the male nude is unjustly neglected, and this magazine is here to fix it. Leather jacket, rope, a cowboy with a rifle, everything out in full color. It reads like a manifesto with pictures.
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Why it matters
Printed in 1967, the year DSI won its fight over mailing male nudes, this is early full-frontal male nudity from the gay-owned company that helped make it legal.
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What we checked before listing it.
Fair. A 1967 color pictorial that still pops, with honest scuffs, a shop's handwritten price sticker and some mild water damage, a light water mark on the title page. Every mark is in the photos.
Visible in the photos.
Noted in the listing.
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