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GAY MALE ATTRACTN TOWARD MCULAR MEN: DO MATG NTEXT MATTER?

Fdgs om the studi have substantiated the theory that athetics plays a key role women's judgments of men's physil rearch has been nducted on perceptns of attractivens gay male populatns, but past rearch has nfirmed that physil appearance is an important factor perceived attractivens of other men among gay men (Beren et al., 1996, Hospers and Jansen, 2005, Sergs and Cody, 1985, Siever, 1994, Yelland and Tiggemann, 2003). Prev studi on gay male attractivens have foced on eher sgle dimensns or termatns of attractivens (e.

There is evince that gay men preferred lean, proportnate, mcular, and athletic (-shape) men (Bartholome et al., 2000, Halkis et al., 2004, Hatala and Predhodka, 1996, Swami and Tovée, 2008).

GAY MEN AND BODY PERFECTN

However, further studi have shown that gay men's ratgs of attractivens are more sensive to mculary than to weight (Levque & Vichky, 2006). This field has foced almost exclively on women's preference among heterosexual men, and has yet to lve to such dividual variabily wh a gay male populatn.

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