Chris Duffy came to bodybuilding fans first — NPC Heavyweight Bodybuilding Champion, host of his own ESPN fitness show, a genuine icon of the sport. Then, at the height of his legitimate fame, he did what no titleholder before him had dared: he walked his 260-pound, 22-inch-arm physique straight into gay men’s erotica and became Bull Stanton, star of Palm Drive Video’s Sunset Bull — nominated Best Solo Video of the Year by Adult Video News. Jack Fritscher, who directed that video and spent the “tres fabou” summer of 1987 as Duffy’s on-camera confidant and off-camera Boswell, chronicles the transformation here in two pieces: the Thrust Magazine feature “Inside ‘Sunset Bull'” and the essay “The Chris Duffy Scandal,” both capturing a bodybuilding outlaw who, in his own words, wanted to “take actual male sexiness — so closeted in bodybuilding — out into men’s erotica.”

International Leatherman No 12
The Chris Duffy Scandal: “I’m Even Badder Than You Think!”

Thrust Magazine
Inside “Sunset Bull” (How Chris Duffy Became Bull Stanton)

Palm Drive Video
Sunset Bull

Muscle magazine
1996 August (PDF)

IronMan magazine
1994 September (PDF)
1996 November (PDF)