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The Art of Kink
Mascular magazine celebrates the end of winter with a not-necessarily-safe-for-work theme issue: Fetish.
 Christopher Harrity
          
          Mar 19, 2014
          
        
Christopher Harrity
Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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Vincent Keith's Mascular magazine is a work of love. He created Mascular to showcase his own work and the art and photography of men who prefer an alternative vision of sexual expression to the perfect Photoshopped images most popular in the market today. Check out the story on Keith from earlier this year for the background on his reader contribution-driven magazine. And if you enjoy the images from the latest fetish-themed issue, you can see the whole magazine on the website -- it's free!

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