Explorg the Experienc of Gay Men wh Regards to Eatg, Exercise, and Mdfulns-Based Concepts - PMC

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• SAVAGE LOVE EXTRA: GAY MEN TURNED ON BY CUNNILG
• MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT CANCELS MIC FT AFTER THE 1975 FRONTMAN CRICIZ GAY LAWS
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• 7 BT GAY EXPERIENC BANGKOK
• EXPLORG THE EXPERIENC OF GAY MEN WH REGARDS TO EATG, EXERCISE, AND MDFULNS-BASED CONCEPTS

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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I Get Inved To Awome PartiI am a thoroughly gay man who has never actually seen a vaga real life (and might scream and n away were that to occur), but like YGET, I'm turned on by photos of guys eatg out girls. Among the people ad om jectg silin were Dovak who died last November, a Miami trans woman who died om jectns to her butt (Oneal Ron Morris, the woman who jected her, was sentenced to 10 years for practicg medice whout a license), and last month, Tumblr gay celebry Tank Hafertepen — the partner of the man Dovak allegedly went to for advice — died of a lung hemorrhage ed by, part, silin jectn syndrome, acrdg to his ath certifite obtaed by Rollg Stone.

And the dangero trend among gay men choosg to ject siline has changed the perspective of clicians and rearchers like Radix, who proposed, “This is somethg that maybe we should regnize we need to be askg about this [among our male patients].

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This lerature review exam past rearch fdgs regardg eatg disorrs and disorred eatg behavrs for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and genr non-nformg adults and adolcents as a whole, as well as each dividual group. The purpose of this rearch is to review the lerature regardg eatg disorrs and disorred eatg behavrs wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) adults and adolcents parison to their heterosexual and cisgenr unterparts.

Addnally, we examed four specific LGBT subgroups (lbian adults and adolcents; gay adults and adolcents; bisexual, mostly heterosexual, and qutng adults and adolcents; transgenr and genr non-nformg adults and adolcents), as well as risk factors for each mory strs mol (MSM) is often ed to expla mental health dispari sexual [121] and genr mory [76] groups. Mory strs mols pos that dividuals om LGBT populatns experience unique distal strsors, such as stigma and discrimatn, and proximal strsors, such as ternalized homophobia or transphobia and ncealment of sexual or genr inty [122] which turn lead to creased risk for the velopment of physil and mental health issu [26, 101, 118, 121, 122]. For example, one study found that sexual mory adolcents reported var forms of strs om the origal mol [121] cludg distal (discrimatn and victimizatn), proximal (expectatns of rejectn and ternalized stigma such as homophobia), and disclosure (ncealment strs), as well as vlence and social and verbal victimizatn [59].

G., gay men stereotypilly have a lean and mcular body); (3) genr inty, sexual orientatn, and race/ethnicy all uniquely ntributed to the prsure one felt to appear a certa way; and (4) LGBT-specific muny spac had the potential to be eher affirmg or nstrag to one’s appearance, that other sexual and genr mori were eher acceptg of a variety of body shap and siz, or rerced societal expectatns of the ial body rearch fdgs suggt that the sexual mory muny has both protective and trimental effects on adult LGB dividuals’ body image and eatg behavrs. For adult lbians, risk factors related to sexual orientatn clud discrimatn, ncealment of sexual orientatn, ls volvement the LGB muny, ternalized homophobia, ternalized homonegativy, heterosexist experienc, proximal mory strs, lower sense of belongg to the lbian muny, anizatns, and iends, and stigma nscns [69, 70, 74, 107, 108, 109, 165]. Table 1 Eatg Disorr and Disorred Eatg Behavr Risk Factors Lbian Adults and AdolcentsFull size tableGay adults and adolcentsOverall, rearch has dited that both adult and adolcent gay mal were more likely to suffer om clil eatg disorrs or report disorred eatg behavrs pared to heterosexual mal, wh ltle variance the studi.

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Other studi also found gay adults to be at a higher risk for beg diagnosed wh an eatg disorr than their heterosexual unterparts [44, 53, 73] rearch fdgs suggt that gay adults reported more equent dietg and greater dietary rtrat, more bge eatg, ls ntrol over their eatg behavrs, more purgg, and more exercise than heterosexual men [56, 99, 139] and the fdgs are supported by more ntemporary rearch. Compared to heterosexual men, gay adults reported creased rat of bge eatg, disorred eatg behavrs, unhealthy weight ntrol behavrs, food addictn, and diagnosed clil eatg disorrs, addn to poorer physil activy ([10, 20, 27, 54, 58, 67, 113, 127, 137, 141, 145, 146, 149, 152, 159, 161, 172, 173]). Further, was found that parison to their heterosexual unterparts, gay young adult and adolcent mal were more likely to engage exercisg wh tentn to lose weight, rtrictive eatg, fastg, bgeg, purgg, and e of diet pills, puttg them at an creased risk for eatg disorrs [6, 7, 31, 167, 168, 174].

E., ternalizatn of the th ial, sceptibily to advertisg on physil appearanc), eatg ncerns, equency of engagg nversatns about appearanc, and appearance orientatn gay adults pared to heterosexual men [2, 15, 36, 56, 58, 85, 99, 100, 126, 146, 172, 173]. Furthermore, for gay adults, the discrepancy between current body shape and the body shape they believed they should have to attract a partner was signifintly greater than their current body shape and ial body shape.

Addnally, was found that parison to their heterosexual unterparts, gay young adult and adolcent mal reported greater body dissatisfactn, reported greater sire for toned mcl, experienced a greater crease weight and shape ncern over time, were more ncerned wh tryg to look like men the media, and were more foced on beg lean [6, 31, 33, 34]. Invtigators have theorized that gay adults were ls satisfied wh their bodi and th were more vulnerable to disorred eatg behavrs due to the importance of physil attractn, and by extensn thns, orr to attract men via trasexual petn [102, 143]. Addnally, many scribed this ial body shape as both mcular and th, notg that thns was unique to the gay male muny ( parison to heterosexual men), and that their masculy fluenced their body image and weight-related an addnal theory, was hypothized that bee gay adults experienced greater levels of body shame and body objectifitn than heterosexual men, this, turn, predicted creased rat of eatg disorr symptomology among gay adults [104].

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However, other rearch found that gay adults did not signifintly differ om heterosexual men terms of body teem, body dissatisfactn, ial body image, body image distortn, and drive for thns [71, 131, 173].

Specifilly, risk factors related to sexual orientatn clud ambivalence about their sexual orientatn, ncern about the perceptn of others regardg their sexual orientatn, attendg a gay recreatnal group, pornography viewg, and sexual objectifitn experienc [52, 63, 142, 170]. For gay adults, risk factors related to sexual orientatn clud discrimatn, ncealment of sexual orientatn, matn on discrimatory experienc, ternalized homophobia, ternalized homonegativy, gay muny intifitn (for thner men), and belongg to the gay muny [10, 23, 47, 82, 96, 136, 156, 163]. It was found that an unmet need to belong and perceived stigma were predictive of creased prsn and creased self-passn, which turn were associated wh higher levels of disorred eatg behavrs among gay adults [14].

E., the ngence between societal msag about genr norms and beliefs about what is achievable, rultg psychologil distrs) was associated wh negative affect and social sensivy, which turn were associated wh body dissatisfactn and disorred eatg behavrs [17] risk factors for disorred eatg behavrs intified among gay male adolcents clud earlier age of achievement of sexual mory velopmental ton, bullyg, lack of support om adults, beg of an olr age, and lack of engagement physil activy [33, 92, 133]. Table 2 Eatg Disorr and Disorred Eatg Behavr Risk Factors Gay Male Adults and AdolcentsFull size tableBisexual adults and adolcentsIt should be noted that bee bisexualy is a relatively new area of study, the rearch on the topics of eatg disorrs and disorred eatg behavrs is recent and relatively limed. Intertgly, vtigators have also found that bisexual girls were more satisfied wh their bodi, and ls ncerned wh attemptg to look like women the media, ntrary to other fdgs [6] bisexual men, distal risk factors for eatg disorrs related to sexual orientatn clud attendg a gay recreatnal group, ambivalence regardg their sexual orientatn, ncern about perceptn of others regardg their sexual orientatn, gay muny volvement, sexual objectifitn experienc, creased e of pornography, antibisexual discrimatn, ternalized biphobia, and sexual objectifitn experienc [26, 42, 52, 63, 170].

EXPLORG THE EXPERIENC OF GAY MEN WH REGARDS TO EATG, EXERCISE, AND MDFULNS-BASED CONCEPTS

Risk factors related to body image clud drive for mculary, greater exercise equency, ternalizatn of cultural standards of attractivens, body surveillance, steroid e, and upward appearance-based social parisons [2, 26, 42, 62, 170] bisexual women, distal risk factors for eatg disorrs clud gay muny volvement, antibisexual discrimatn, ternalized biphobia, sexual objectifitn experienc, relatnship dissatisfactn, prsn, beg of Lata/Hispanic or black ethnicy, genr role orientatn, low self-teem, maladaptive social parison, objectified body nscns, self-nscns durg physil timacy, ternalizatn of soccultural standards of attractivens, and body surveillance [26, 42, 53, 54, 142]. It should be noted that no empiril evince to date has intified distal risk factors for eatg disorrs for bisexual adolcents; more rearch this area is bisexual men, distal risk factors for disorred eatg behavrs related to sexual orientatn clud discrimatn, ncealment of sexual orientatn, matn about discrimatn, ternalized biphobia, ternalized begativy, gay muny intifitn (for thner men), and sexual objectifitn experienc [10, 23, 26, 47, 156, 163, 166]. Siarly, ternalized homonegativy creased body surveillance, which creased body shame, and then disorred eatg behavrs [165] bisexual adolcent mal, distal risk factors for disorred eatg behavrs clud cyberbullyg, lack of support om adults, beg of an olr age, beg obe, and lack of engagement physil activy [33, 133].

Several of the studi reviewed monstrated that distal strsors, such as stigma and discrimatn, and proximal strsors, such as ternalized homophobia or transphobia and ncealment of sexual or genr inty, were lked to creased risk of eatg pathology (i.

For example, low self-teem was found to be an trapsychic functng risk factor across all subgroups except gay adults; however, this is likely due to lack of rearch, rather than lack of prence, pecially sce this was found to be a risk factor for disorred eatg behavrs. Body dissatisfactn, body image, appearance and self-cricism are factors that lead to chang gay men’s eatg habs (Levque & Vichky, 2006; Readdy & Wallhead, 2016; Schaefer et al., 2018; Wyssen et al., 2016), wh rearch suggtg that gay men are at a higher risk of beg unrweight than heterosexual men (Semlyen et al., 2020; Williamson, 1999). To meet the expectatns, gay men are more likely to engage strict dietg and extreme exercise (Blashill & Vanr Wal, 2009), wh gay men beg more likely to experience stigma and bee more sceptible to societal stereotyp, leadg to more prsure and self-nscns (Smh et al., 2011).