His presidential fitness program come froma man who posed stogie-chomping on the cover of "Cigar Aficionado". He claims vast business knowledge, while his failed Planet Hollywood restaraunts have gone bankrupt. His adherents claim he's "gay friendly" while he's vowed to keep marriage a straight-only deal.... Still, some gay people think that, having posed nude a few times, Arnold likes us, he really, really likes us.

Recent pictures oa Arnold posing with cast members of the sadly canceled show "Battle Dome" prove that Arnie's at least friendly with a few model/acotr types with a porn past they'd rather forget: Christian Boeving and Chad Ullery.

Boeving, of fitness magazine, B-grade movie, and (clothed) Playgirl fame, is also a one-time porn cast member in the saucy Posing Strap (1994 Director Chi Chi LaRue, ed.). As Lance Bronson, he gets a little extra fluffing in a faux-vintage photo shoot.

Much speculation in online forums debate whether it is Boeving, but porn actor supreme Zak Spears has confirmed that his tongue did indeed delve deep into Boeving's less-defined, yet well-muscled, posterior.

Ullery, who has graced the pages of Colt and Playgirl, and bottomed in a few porn video, including "Behind the Barn Door", is currently in the state of California, and denial. He recently acquired a lawyer, who, after a few insistent and annnoying phone calls to this publication's offices, made it clear that he did not perform in said videos and was allegedly the victim of a sexed up doppelganger.

I refused to recant my column about Ullery's diverse career, as it was based on lots of factual research... Denial like that of Ullery's is part and parcel of an allegedly gay-friendly fitness behemoth of Schwarzenegger's fame.

When prolific author Jack Fritscher tried to sell Arnold memorabilia a few weeks ago, eBay promptly censored his listings, alleging that Fritscher's political statements on his online storefront were "inappropriate".

Fritscher is the author of "Some Dance to Remember", a massively passionate novel of bodybuilders. Also a former lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, his personalized biography is only part of the Mapplethorpe legacy. Fritscher's recently sold archival items include photos of Schwarzenegger considered even more risque than the frontal nude published in Spy magazine years ago.

The Mapplethorpe foundation is apparently keeping the naughty pics under wraps, proving that the Gropinator's censorious tentacles reach beyond the state line.

Meanwhile, the glut of auctions for another frontal pic resource, old copies of After Dark featuring Arnold, are going cheap.

But wait! There's more!

Remember Paul Baressi of the "I slept with John Travolta. Oops, no I didn't" fame?

Baressi, long a performer in the erotic and prostitutional arts, wiht a diverse resume of straight, gay, and bi porn magazines, is also a director of spanking films and cigar kink videos. A Vietnam vet and state wrestling champion, Baressi has suceeded in spanning the realms of diverse career choices, from private investigator to star of "My Dad Beats My Ass", and "Men of The Midway".

Less known on his curriculum vitae is that of one-time bodyguard to Arnold and his wife, the frighteningly thin Maria Shriver.

One wonders what other sort of personal services the randy and always ready Baressi might have provided during employment for the once and future Fuhrer.

Baressi's web site boasts him as "the leader in gay military movies." Maybe there's still hope for all those closed army bases.

This interesting association inspires a dredging (or Drudgeing?) of some other even more confusingly porny remnants of "Aw-node's" not too distant past.

Even his workout books have a closer relationship to the adult section of your local video store. (see photos)

Take "Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men", one of the scads of large-format exercise books with lots of black and white images of handsome men stretching and flexing in shorts about three sizes too small....But a more interesting model is the mustached gent that may be familiar to fans of Joe Gage's classic 1977 porn film, "El Paso Wrecking Corp."

Mike Morris, whose erotic career wastoo shortlived (Pieces of Eight, California Fox and a Colt photo spread), shows how he got so flexible in Arnold's book, where he's clothed, but still quite sexy.

Morris's role in El Paso is as a father who greatly enjoys himself as he watches Fred Halsted fellate his son (Jared Benson). will this be part of Arnold's "GOP Family Values" platform?...

A politician's proximity to sex workers and porn does not ensure political sexual freedoms, nor does his former peak physical condition assure us of a healthy state.