The Golden Age of Denial: Bible Porn

(via Fleshbot) An article on Advocate.com called “The Golden Age of Denial: Bible Porn” (now offline) goes into a lot of theory behind prodigious male nakedness in religious artwork. Like Hollywood films under the Hays Code, homosexual images couldn’t be overt, so they were hidden in religious imagery. Lascivious portraits of naked, muscled men is merely a display of Christianity, not something to get the loins tingling...