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. . .Thirdly, to disallow any homosexual reading of the image, the model is presented as authentically an ‘outdoors man’. He has extremely short hair, no jewelry and no visible tattoos. To avoid criticism that he himself does not look ‘rugged’, the model rests his hand on a book entitled “Cabin Fever”. This suggests the model is an intellectual and allays concern that he lacks desirable muscularity.

It is for the viewer of the image to determine whether the book “Cabin Fever” will address the ‘great outdoors’ or detail the sexy adventures of a cabin-crew member.

 

I am not disagreeing but I just wondered why having a book under his elbow, particularly Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney (which is subtitled "Diary of a Wimpy Kid") makes him an intellectual of any sort and thus the possessor of some sort of masculinity. Of course, there is another book similarly entitled but the full title is Cabin Fever - the Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess but I doubted it was that book.

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I think @TruthBTold that you missed the last sentence of my post where I alluded to exactly that!

 

In today’s media, I feel that a physical book and/or spectacles (with or without prescription lenses) on the model is intended to convey the notion of an intellectual.

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