As the conman is about to trap another woman, she appears above him on a landing and he looks up her dress with no emotion while he is reading a beefcake magazine.
Physique magazines or beefcake magazines were magazines devoted to physique photography — that is, photographs of muscular "beefcake" men – typically young and attractive – in athletic poses, usually in revealing, minimal clothing. During their heyday in North America in the 1950s to 1960s, they were presented as magazines dedicated to fitness, health, and bodybuilding, with the models often shown demonstrating exercises or the results of their regimens, or as artistic reference material. However, their unstated primary purpose was erotic imagery, primarily created by and for gay men at a time when homosexuality was the subject of cultural taboos and government censorship.
Later on, his newly conquered wife says, “I didn’t marry you for companionship” when he suggests he move into his first wife’s room. This means she married him for sex and is claiming him as her prostitute.
A large portion of the film industry was gay. I think the filmmakers were having fun. Or perhaps they knew they were creating movies that were eternal and they expected that the future would be more accepting of homosexuality and that the average viewer would understand the references.
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