Cheescake & Beefcake
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
In the late 50s my grandmother shared her Lomas de
Chapultepec home with our distant relatives, the Mirandas. By then my uncle
Luis’s daughter was past being a teenager and she invited all kinds of handsome
men to what seemed to be weekly parties. One day I heard her say, “So and so
has SA.” I had no idea what she meant so I asked. She told me, “Sex appeal.”
My guess is that term is long forgotten in this 21st
century.
I am not sure if in the Mexico City of this century that
quaint 20th century word for a really voluptuous woman “una lechugita” or little lettuce is
still in effect. My guess is that with the advent of social media and the loss
of subtlety the terms today are more graffic in just about any language.
In the 80s I photographed Mike Hamill and Carla Temple who
ran a fitness gym called The Olympic Gym. I was well paid for these series
of photographs that became ads.
Then I would have said that these pictures are prime
examples of beefcake and cheesecake. I wonder what would be the equivalent now?
