When bodybuilders take artistic photos like that i really dont get much out of them...Most my inspiration comes from watching their training videos, and pics from competition....Im sure there is a good hmosexual following in bodybuilding and whether they get something out of the artistic photos is case by case depending on the individual.....
What would be silly though is for these pros not to take these photos thinking no i wont, a gay man might look at these and like them, find me attractive.....What he says though, in having these pictures taken is letting the fans, gay or straight, get something out of it, whatever that may be.....
I mean, i watch training videos, you could say when they grunt and all that, it sounds like sex, and a person not a fan of bodybuilding will see the close up shots of their most muscular and say, damn dude, what do you get out of watching that guy train and flexing?
What i think the case for a certain percent, including me is that i never grew up...im still a kid at heart when i see a bodybuilder that looks like something straight out of a comic book....How many most musculars did you do as a child after watching a arnold swartzy movie?