Many gay men want a perfect body, but the effort to get one creat real misery.
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HOLLOWAY ON TOXIC MALE BETY STANDARDS GAY CULTURE
Holloway on Toxic Male Bety Standards Gay Culture March 21, 2019/ Lk the News Ian Holloway / In a GQ article, associate profsor of social welfare Ian Holloway mented on opprsive male bety standards that are trimental to body image, particularly wh the gay muny. Holloway, who ns a private practice Wt Hollywood workg wh gay dividuals and upl, explaed, “The vast majory of my clients, spe what their external appearance might be, whether they have a six-pack or not, wrtle wh this ial image of themselv.
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GAY MEN AND BODY PERFECTN
"Phillip Joy, a registered dietician and assistant profsor at Mount Sat Vcent Universy Halifax, says a certa Eurocentric athetic for gay men exists but the prsur are evint across all LGBTQ+ muni. (Danny Abriel)Joy said advertisg toward whe, gay men has particularly emphasized this ial, as did the need for a mcular, healthy body to unter wastg syndrome durg the AIDS epimic. "Sangha himself has "experienced a lot of excln, alienatn, isolatn and lonels tryg to f the gay muny" as someone who's 50 and "a ltle heavy.
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