Contents:
- GAS & PAS: BLACK GAY BODYBUILRS & THE COMPLEX DYNAMIC BETWEEN MCL & QUEER DIRE
- SEXUAL POSNG PRACTIC AND SEXUAL RISK AMONG BLACK GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE
GAS & PAS: BLACK GAY BODYBUILRS & THE COMPLEX DYNAMIC BETWEEN MCL & QUEER DIRE
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Gay Mculary Dired & VilifiedThroughout morn queer history—om the Castro Clon of the 1970s, the porn and ver mol athetics of the last four s, to the preferenc listed many onle datg profil—gay men have had an ambivalent relatnship wh mculary. Men wh chiseled chts and eight-pack abs have long been nsired the flt standard of homosexual sire, and as a rult, the embodiment of a fantasy that is partly blamed for higher rat of body image anxiety among gay men. “A greater percentage of gay men than heterosexual men reported that they were unattractive, unfortable a swimsu, dissatisfied wh their physil appearance, and dissatisfied wh their mcle size and tone, ” says Dr.
SEXUAL POSNG PRACTIC AND SEXUAL RISK AMONG BLACK GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE
“In general, both gay and heterosexual men reported poorer body image as [body mass x] creased. “A greater percentage of gay men than heterosexual men reported that they were unattractive, unfortable a swimsu, dissatisfied wh their physil appearance, and dissatisfied wh their mcle size and tone.
While gay men are not alone feelg like they do not measure up to standards of bety, feelg sexually unsirable n be uniquely alienatg when one’s nnectn to a muny is somewhat predited on sex, says Dr.
Carl Hovey, a psychologist, and rearcher at the Gay Therapy Center New York. “Incln the muny pends on one's abily to ‘live out’ one's sexualy through certa relatnal enunters; and if one is not experienced as sirable, the feelg of beg cut-off om the muny, and even om one's inty, n be profound, ” says Hovey, who believ the bety standards of the larger society, and among gay men, also exert prsure on those who f the standard.