This collection offers a, albeit belated, review of materials that in the past could only be purchased under the counter, starting with anonymous erotic literature of the nineteenth century. The volume contains the pioneering homoerotic nude photographs of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, who in Taormina portrayed young people in classic poses and skimpy dresses. It also includes illustrations from groundbreaking magazines such as Physique Pictorial, the governing body of the mid-1950s gay scene, and covers the full range of classic masters of male nude photography such as Herbert List, George Platt Lynes or Robert Mapplethorpe, up to star of the most explicit magazines.