How did you find out you like Muscular women?

[bicepboy]

It's a good question -- and, in fact, I'm sure there have been similar threads. But, it gives me a chance to clear up some really poor reporting that seems to pop up when you google "Laura Combes" including a link to a post on this site, which either quotes stuff you'll see in Wikipedia, or the other way around. Either way, it's all wrong.

I suppose I'd always been turned on by muscular women, and only kind of aware of my reaction to a few Popeye cartoons that were in re-runs in the afternoon as I was bumping up on or into puberty. But, it was in 1979 -- (not 1981, got it??!!!) -- that Laura graced American televisions in a segment on Real People. It was like an electric shock to my system. I knew instantly that this was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen. The next year, she was featured along with a few others in an article in Sports Illustrated, "https://www.si.com/vault/1980/03/17/106774932/here-she-is-miss-well-what." Amazing double biceps. Still among the best, especially her right arm.

Then, other features started popping up... Women's Physique World hit the stands. Laura had a spread in Muscle & Fitness. I was making regular trips to newsstands to stare covertly at the muscle mags, and also NBC and ESPN started airing contests, and ESPN aired American Muscle Magazine. So, was born an addiction.

[johnnylm]

 ^-    That's the article that turned me.   Amazing to see how small those muscles look now; there have to be twenty women in the gym I work out at that are buffer than those women. 

[sa2009]

For me was after i watched the 1991 Olympia live on espn . I had seen fbb's on American Gladiators before and knew i like them . But that Olympia show was the first time i saw a real fbb event . Will never forget seeing Laura Creavalle , and i was hooked 100% . And around the same time Iron Eagle came out with Mclish , not long after Sharon Bruneau came on the scene . Awesome time !  But that first Olympia show was it

[OldSchmoe67]

My earliest real life (non-media) memory is from 3rd grade, circa 1975, when one of the more athletic girls in my class flashed a double biceps pose at another boy trying to bully her, intimidating, and ultimately humiliating him in front of the class.  In the late 70s my dad officiated some national wristwrestling competition (the difference between armwrestling & wristwrestling escapes me now,) and a tiny, perhaps 4'11" female competitor and local champ was ripped and muscular - the first time I had ever seen a woman like that. After that came the Lisa Lyon Playboy that I lifted from my uncle following advent of Fbb contests on TV, and it never stopped from there. Though by no means muscular, Lindsay Wagner as The Bionic Woman certainly sparked my fascination with strong women, of course followed by Linda Carter's Wonder Woman. The profundity of puberty coinciding with the sport's advent stayed with me like an ever-expanding tattoo.

[ilovefbbs95]

The heyday of women's BBing and magazines etc were well before my time, in fact i'm pretty sure my Muscle Awakening was through the Simpsons episode where Marge starts lifting. Also I watched a lot of WWE in my youth so Victoria and Jazz (and later Beth Phoenix) made big impressions on me.

[bf5waea97]

When I was in grade school, there was a girl in my class that was stronger than me and had pretty big muscles. I just remember lying in bed not being able to fall asleep fantasizing about feeling her biceps. Then later that year there was an FBB on fear factor and same thing, couldn't fall asleep thinking about feeling her muscles. My fetish has been pretty omnipresent since then.

[larky368]

As a young boy watching tv I was always fascinated with scenes depicting female strength and dominance. Whenever I saw a catfight or a woman beating up a man I would be captivated. Years later I remember flipping channels and seeing a female bodybuilding competition. I only watched for a short while and although I was probably alone I'm sure I said to myself " She looks gross" When I was in my late 40's I got my first computer and of course the first thing I searched for was porn. After about an hour of that I decided to look for bodybuilders. The first images I can recall were of Lynn McCrossin. I was dumbfounded when I saw just how massive these women could become. My favorite website became Premiere Productions and the first two videos I ordered were Suzie - a woman who's scissors were lethal and Annie Rivieccio who was in her prime. I was lucky enough to meet Annie twice and one session we made a video for her clips4sale.

[GAP]

I do not recall the first moment I saw female muscle but I guess it was around my early teens and I was discovering female muscle in most magazines including muscle and fitness. I remember how attractive the females and how they seem very strong and powerful. I later discovered the internet looking at female muscle fansites and I began reading female muscle stories. It was along time ago, I think it was before my early teens but I know I had craving for female muscle in my teens.

[Username13]

Very difficult to pinpoint for me. I remember a ton of influences, but can't really say what came first unless I really stopped to think about it.

I was born in the early 90s, so in terms of mainstream media, I remember American Gladiators (re-runs anyways, I remember it looking dated even back then) and Chyna from the WWE being massive influences. Both were something I could just sit there and watch without feeling any guilt from a family member walking in. Literally zero interest in wrestling, but I would always watch for Chyna. American Gladiators was kind of cool, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't mostly just watch it for Zap, Diamond, etc. I also vividly remember being aroused by Chyna being able to fight against men, and I always hoped for some kind of crossover where the female gladiators would take on the male contestants, but never really saw any of that (outside of that game where they shoot a cannon at the different contestants). I also remember keeping Kiana Tom's Flex Appeal on whenever it came on, along with any female fitness competition that I would happen to stumble across. I also used to love going to magazine stores, libraries, or book stores, and would immediately seek out material on muscular women. Very rarely would I ever buy anything though, just thought it was too risky. If I did get a magazine, I may stash it for a bit but then throw it out. Not that they were anything great, just basic female fitness magazines (super awkward to purchase as well).

For personal influences, as seems to be popular in here, I always had a crush on the tomboy in school, who was always the best athlete and would challenge and beat the guys at arm wrestling, myself included (I feel like this is pretty much a right of passage haha).

In terms of getting into the bigger bodybuilders, I definitely remember that being a product of going down the rabbit hole on the internet. Chyna started it off, and I'd just steal off to the family computer to look up pictures of her, and then it just kind of developed from there. The FTVideo sample pic page was my go-to. I just remember it being a huge rush to sneak off, and I was as careful as possible about it as to not get caught. If my family left to go on longer trips or something, I remember printing off pictures on the printer, and storing them in my room. I also remember that one day I checked my stash and it was gone. Freaked out, and I know my mom would have thrown it all out when she was cleaning, but it was never discussed. Definitely had some doozies in there that would have been super-embarrassing to discuss (such as Colette Guimond pec pics), so I'm happy it never came to that. I never really looked up anything all that risque; some nudity but no porn, mostly just bikini pics and such. Once I got my own computer though all bets were off lol.

[JerusalemTulip]

I won't go into details about this, but my life was pretty sheltered growing up.  When I was breaking into puberty, the celebrity crush I indulged was watching Gadget on re-runs of the Rescue Rangers.  My introduction to female muscle sounds made up but its true.  I was at Waikiki beach, with a girl.  We were sharing a beach mat and a really ripped female bodybuilder and what seemed to be her girlfriend/admirer set up just in front of us.  It was like a crusader's first taste of sugar cane.  My boner started pressing into the girl on my lap and thankfully she didn't catch on.  I was so fascinated I made up excuses to go snorkeling (to scope out the muscle woman), while my date thought I was embarrassed by the hard on and I guess she was secretly pleased at what she perceived to be my bashfulness.  It wasn't yet the everyone has a picture phone era so that was kind of a bummer.

[timer]

I first noticed my attraction to female bodybuilders when I first saw She-Hulk on TV.

[topdogg17]

Professional wrestling, American Gladiators, Fitness America Pageant (when ESPN was enjoyable as a whole) and seeing them in magazines in local grocery stores.

In no order, those things got me introduced to female muscle, and I'm so glad they did.

[outmuscled]

For personal influences, as seems to be popular in here, I always had a crush on the tomboy in school, who was always the best athlete and would challenge and beat the guys at arm wrestling, myself included (I feel like this is pretty much a right of passage haha).

Hmm, is that really a thing?

Funnily enough, I went one better than having a crush on the school tomboy, by palling around with a tomboy neighbour, when I went to visit one of my relatives in a small town a few times a year.
She was about 2 years older than me and shortly before secondary school when I was probably 11, we wrestled a few times one summer. I can't remember who challenged who but she probably started it because she would often try to assert her physical prowess and sometimes flexed a bicep to impress me and her friends (not that there really was a bicep there!).
The matches were close and we made each other work, but she was too strong and always ended up on top, really pleased with herself. It wasn't overtly sexual, but we would be alone in a back room of the house and as a pre-pubescent boy on the cusp of change, I was aware of a certain electrical charge and found it exhilirating to tussle with her.
It felt intimate and we both enjoyed it but although it felt nice lying underneath her in submission, she was really cocky and I did want to put her in her place sometimes, but I just wasn't able. I don't know if the age gap is sufficient explanation, as I don't think most girls just 2 years older would have been able to do that to me.

One time we weren't alone and wrestled in front of her younger sister who must have been my age or a fraction older, and after the older sister pinned me yet again, the younger one wanted a go with me. This memory has largely escaped me and I can't recall the final outcome, except that she was pretty strong too and it was all giggles, boasts and excitement.

Was this an influence or a formative experience though? I don't really think so, as I didn't see her again after that final summer and hardly thought about her for the next few decades. I think I was always intrigued by female strength and already had half-formed fantasies about it, and by the time I was 13, I was jerking off to Martina Navratilova's biceps.
It was another few years before I caught sight of the odd female bodybuilder on the cover of fitness magazines and that was always a wow moment, but it was the arrival of the internet in the 90s that really opened my eyes to the wonders of all those incredible muscular women.

Funnily enough, my experiences with the tomboy might have been as telling an indicator of her likes and inclinations as mine, as about two decades later, I heard she was in a lesbian relationship. I didn't think too much about it even then, but since then I've wondered if that's why she enjoyed being with a younger boy (and getting semi-physical ) rather than those her own age, whose interest in her at that age would have been more sexual (and very much vice versa, for most girls her age).
Maybe rolling around with a younger boy whom she could be in control with was a stepping stone to getting hands on with the weaker sex, ie. the rest of her own gender. Or maybe she was just fond of me and I'm talking shite ...

[borntobemild]

On holiday in my mid teens. We would go to the same beach every day if it was sunny. Generally, a bit further down the beach were another family with a son and daughter of a similar age. The girl had fairly short hair, was pretty and very athletic. Her thighs looked immense, particularly compared to my skinny legs. She would generally wear fairly short shorts, and she and her brother would play football (soccer), badminton, on the beach or just go swimming.
At that age, I was really shy, and just watched from a distance.

One day, I noticed she was carrying a sports bag with the logo of a football team. I lied, and said I was also a fan and we got talking. That was three days before the end of the holiday!

Amazingly enough, we were both on holiday in the same place at the same time the following year, so we had an opportunity to renew our friendship. Her name was Barbara, she was a sports fanatic and intended to study Physical Education at University. We were never anything but friends, but I'll never forget those legs.

[I like strong women]

Somehow, not sure of why, the neighborhood tomboy and I put on boxing gloves for a sparing session. She easily backed me into a corner and in short order had me in that classic position  where she would hit me in the face, double me over with a punch or 2 to the stomach, then would hit me in the face and again double me over. I was defenseless and she was hurting me- eyes watering, nose starting to bleed, the poain in the stomach was excrutiating each time she landed a punch.   She stopped the boxing because she said she did not want to hurt me.  I have never forgotten that- dont understand exactly why, but this became an " erotic signal" for me- being defeated in a fight by a tough girl or woman.

A few months  later I am reading through my Dad's copy of the National Enquirer- come upon an ad in the back for pictures of  lady wrestlers, circus strongwomen and acrobats,  muscular women-  ad was by Bernie Kobel in Tampa, FL. I was in puberty by then- got such a hardon, just from reading the words and then fantasizing about what the women would look like, how strong they might be-- but never ordered anything from this. I was a kid, living at home.

A  year later- now I am in Junior High School- and while browsing books, I come upon Modesty Blaise-  the scene where Mrs Fothergill kills an English spy with her bare hands- first she slaps him around, casually breaks one of his arms, then the other- then she straddles him and chokes him to death with her hands.  I bought the book, and for the next few years, this became one of my " go-to" fantasies.

50 years later I am married to a former college athlete, we raised 3 kids, have grandchildren,  and have a great sex life- indulging some of each of our fantasies.


  " No one knows what goes on behind closed doors."