Rod Bauer

This LoRA is of muscle aesthetic and erotic model Rod Bauer. He was discovered by photographer Walter Kundzicz, the founder of Champion Studios, a company that took erotic photos of young men in an era when such photography and videography had to be masked as physique, aesthetic or fitness photography. Kundzicz began working in the field in the late 1950's and was raided several times by authorities due to his line of work. Bauer was scouted by Kundzicz when the young man won the state wrestling championship in his weight class in the late 1960's. Kundzicz approached him and not only did he agree to modeling, he recruited his best friend Scott Manley to also model for Kundzicz. As evidenced by Bauer's state wrestling championship, he was very athletic and stood 6'1" tall. According to Kundzicz, after his modeling days were over, Bauer graduated college with a physical education degree and went into teaching. If Bauer is still living, he'd be in his mid to late 70's now.

The photography used was late 1960's consumer quality and presumably self developed and printed. Your typical neighborhood photo developer and print shop wouldn't have been used. I used only a few of the black and white images as I found enough decent quality color versions, but the aesthetic of the 1960's color film does translate some into the LoRA giving it a somewhat more vintage color feel. In testing and playing around with the versions I made, adding "vintage color photograph" to the prompt sometimes helped the quality of the result. The LoRA does lean towards a gym like background absent any background descriptors as several of his photoshoots were in the same studio made up to look like a gym locker room.

Standard disclaimer: The training set images contained material that is Not Safe For Work (NSFW) and will lean towards making such images. If that is not your intent, include appropriate negative prompts to reduce the chances of generating such images. Note while the training set had nudes, due to the laws at the time, none depict erections.

Recommended weight range is 0.70 to 0.80.

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