Bernarr Macfadden: The Vegetarian Weightlifter Who Started a Bodybuilding Religion

DEC 11 2022

Bernarr Macfadden: The Vegetarian Weightlifter Who Started a Bodybuilding Religion

On Bernarr Macfadden, born Bernard McFadden in 1868, who founded Physical Culture magazine in 1899 and built a publishing empire on it. He was prosecuted on obscenity charges over posters for his physique exhibitions, so early physique display was entangled with censorship law from the start.

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