Fame—in the limited venues available like these films and physique magazines—came to the deserving. Don Fuller was, in the 1950s, one of the most photographed of the posing strap models.

In the era of posing straps (and all of these are in black and white: the originals were silent but music has been added), one had to depend on everything but whatever it was the posing strap held. Unlike today, when a big dick can cover a bevy of physique and personality flaws. The men who were drafted for these films, each running 5 to 10 minutes, were the finest specimens that could be bribed, coerced or convinced to cavort before the camera in some simplistic situation wearing nothing more than a few square inches of flimsy material.