SublethalDose

What would it be called if you did have one?

My first reaction as well. When my grandmother went into the hospital for pneumonia a few years ago, they found cancerous cells in fluid from her lungs. Brief panic... and then they decided the cells were remnants from having breast cancer in her fifties... i.e., in the 1960s. So bad-ass that after she whooped cancer's ass she invited it to stay as long as it liked if it behaved. May OP live as long as my grandmother!

What is the vibe at these parties? Are people just having a good time in general, or is the focus entirely on you? What kind of appreciative or critical comments do you hear from your customers? Are there many people who are repeat customers, not necessarily of you (gotta have variety!) but of male life models in general?

What body type is most popular among your customers? What kind of physical training do you do to enhance your appearance?

Do you see yourself as part of a community or a tradition of performance? For example, have you heard of Eugen Sandow and the posing sessions he did for society ladies?

Have you ever been tempted to cash in on ladies' sexual desire for you, and if you did want to go down that route, do you think you would have many opportunities?

Great AMA!

Anyone can dodge questions and look like an asshole. Anyone can ask loaded questions to which any answer accepts an unfair premise. Answering the question that you wish had been asked can sometimes show the questioner a different point of view and make him see your disagreement in a different light. "Oh, I see. We disagree, but not for the reason that I built into my question. There's another explanation."

That said, McNamara played a major role in expanding and extending the Vietnam War, he actively served the administration to those ends, and the best you possibly could say of him was that he trusted the authority of the president at a time when most Americans still did, which isn't much of a defense for someone who was in a much, much better position than most Americans to see the dangers of that. So yes, I think he fully earned the title of asshole, but I also think that particular bit of advice can be put to good ends.

Sandow was a fascinating guy. He was a 19th century strongman who, in contrast to the typical strongman performers up to that time, was lean and handsome. (The typical strongman was a bit more like the circus strongman stereotype you learned from children's books, like Louis Cyr, one of Sandow's rivals.)

Sandow was a legit strongman, but it wasn't long before his looks started getting more attention than his feats of strength. He started posing and doing private "educational" exhibitions for people who paid for a chance to observe him and even touch him while he posed and demonstrated muscular control. He was quite a cultural phenomenon, and there's a lot more to his story, but among other things he invented and/or popularized the idea of using strength training to achieve the classical body aesthetic reflected in art and sculpture. The society ladies who paid a premium to see him up close warmly approved, and millions of men and boys took up the challenge, buying his health and training manuals and launching the first modern bodybuilding craze.