guy candy

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

noticed on the cover of the February 2005 issue of Out magazine:
   Swimsuit Special
   22 pages of guy candy

a play on "eye candy" (which we've mentioned here before), of
course.  but how current is it?  modestly so, it turns out.
Cosmopolitan has had a "guy candy gallery" feature for some time (so
sue me, i tend to look at harder stuff than Cosmo guys), it turns
out, and might even have been the source from which the expression
spread -- to the monthly guy candy feature on www.musclemayhem.com
and various photo albums of male models, for instance.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)