“The grammar was horrendous, the writer always seemed to fixate on odd things and there was always an undercurrent of internalized homophobia that ran through so many of the stories,” Scarnici says of the erotica found in these vintage porno mags. Scarnici’s parody of the vintage gay erotic magazine is able to do two things at once: titillate with sexy photos of muscly hunks in various ‘classic gay porn predicaments,’ and induce belly laughs with its tongue-in-cheek take on the horribly written erotica that was all too common with this type of mag. The men I saw in those magazines were a lot more relatable than the perfect Adonises we see today.” And that’s exactly the type of guy you’ll find throughout the 100 pages of Hot Rods, courtesy of some purposely cheesy shake-N-go toupees. “Everyone had a beard, or a mustache, and shaggy, unkempt hair. “There was no manscaping - just natural, hairy physiques on lean men who weren’t overly worked-out,” he says.
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