FEMALE MUSCLE: Where Feminism Has Failed Women By Bill Dobbins http://www.billdobbins.com The progress that women, primarily in western culture, have made since the latter half of the 19th century is amazing. This is especially evident when you look at the status of women in parts of the world that have not gone through this evolutionary… Read More FEMALE MUSCLE: Where Feminism Has Failed Women
NATURE OF REVOLUTION I read an interesting quote in a book recently: “It would hardly be a revolution if everyone agreed with it at the beginning, would it?” This applies to most areas of our culture, from taste and social conventions, fashion, psychology and even medicine and scientific knowledge. This especially applies to my photos… Read More MY PHOTOS: REAL REVOLUTION TAKES TIME
My photo studio is located in Los Angeles. I have wonderful photo locations easily available including the beach, mountains and deserts not too many miles away. This is why I encourage those who want the best possible photos to come to book photo session and come here to L.A. I get asked a lot if… Read More SHOOTING PHOTOS IN LOS ANGELES
THE AGE OF FREE PORN We live in an age of free porn on the Internet and any magazines should keep this in mind when they are thinking about publishing photos of sexy women to attract readers. Penthouse went out of business at one point trying to chase the Internet in terms of erotic content.… Read More “GIRLIE” PHOTOS AND FAILING FITNESS MAGAZINES
A NEW ARCHETYPE When Pumping Iron author Charles Gaines first saw women bodybuilders in the late 1970s he declared they represented a “new archetype” – a kind of body never seen before in any culture anywhere in the world at any time in history. Women who develop their muscles for aesthetic purposes are “something new… Read More WHY AESTHETIC FEMALE MUSCLE IS IMPORTANT
THE EVOLUTION OF BODYBUILDING Competitive bodybuilding went through a major growth spurt in the 1970s and 1980s after a period of very slow evolution starting in the 1940s. The public had gotten a very narrow view of bodybuilding over the years. Steve Reeves, one of the most beautiful human beings ever on the planet, certainly made… Read More WHAT IS NEEDED TO FIX PRO BODYBUILDING?
THE SISTERHOOD OF MUSCLE: Women Who Represent “The Tip of The Spear” need to stick together By Bill Dobbins Bodybuilding, Physique, Figure, Fitness and Bikini at the 2014 Ms. Olympia There were no cells phones. The Internet was just for academia and the government. Fax machines were the exciting new innovation. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still… Read More THE SISTERHOOD OF MUSCLE
Bodybuilding for women is a shockingly novel development in our world. “Something new under the sun.” And a phenomenon that has deep implications to our view of the female body, sexuality, gender and a host of sociological, philosophical and health implications. As women bodybuilders have continued to evolve and create more muscular bodies since they… Read More BODYBUILDING FOR WOMEN AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION
THE REVOLUTION THAT IS BODYBUILDING Where It Came From, Where It’s Going By Bill Dobbins ORIGINS Strength training is an ancient human practice. Sometime in the past 15 thousand years people who formerly lived as hunter/gathers moved into villages, towns and later cities. As they accumulated land and property the need developed to defend what… Read More THE REVOLUTION THAT IS BODYBUILDING
FROM BODYBUILDING TO FITNESS/FIGURE: THE EVOLUTION OF WOMEN’S MUSCLE COMPETITION By Bill Dobbins Fit and Fabulous hardbody women have pioneered a new look, are the Supermodels of the 21st Century FIRST CAME BODYBUILDING Before there was fitness and figure (and physique or fit bikini) there was bodybuilding for women – with the first contests being… Read More THE EVOLUTION OF BODYBUILDING TO FITNESS/FIGURE
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