Arts: Beautiful Males

"If young men were entered as well as girls, the affairs might develop into what might be called a course or school for the real appreciation of the human body.

Taken as a whole such contests would be wholesome and helpful to society. To artists the introduction of men in beauty shows would not seem strange. . . ." So said said Dr. Thaddeus L. Bolton, noted psychologist of Temple University (Philadelphia). "The male figure is decidedly more decorative than the female figure," he continued, "thus proving that the male is a better...

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