Gay men speak about the prsure to have the perfect body - and how far they have gone to get .
Contents:
- GAY MEN PH BACK ON BODY SHAMG AMID HIGH RAT OF BODY DYSMORPHIA, EATG DISORRS
- THE GAY MEN RISKG THEIR HEALTH FOR THE PERFECT BODY
- WHY BODY IMAGE ISSU PERVA THE GAY COMMUNY
- GAY MEN AND BODY PERFECTN
GAY MEN PH BACK ON BODY SHAMG AMID HIGH RAT OF BODY DYSMORPHIA, EATG DISORRS
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A growg number of gay men are publicly phg back agast what they say is bullyg wh the gay muny over how they look, and many s g social media to do Coffie, who lls himself full-figured and posts his body wh pri on social media, said as a gay man he has seen his datg life impacted by his appearance. "Coffie said he feels gay culture the Uned Stat has an "unwrten" and "unspoken" Adonis plex. I have to almost die for this orr for me to have my moment of worth here, '" said Coffie speaks to ABC News about his experience facg body shamg the gay NewsNicko Cassidy said he has also faced body shamg as a gay man, explag that body expectatns he faced llege led him to extreme dietg.
"I thk 's fely ep rooted the shame om childhood and growg up jt to be who we are, " said Cassidy, addg that he faced tnts of beg "so gay" and "fat while llege.
THE GAY MEN RISKG THEIR HEALTH FOR THE PERFECT BODY
It's a new year and and a new , but that don't mean the world needs a new you. GQ unpacks the body image issu pervadg the gay muny. * gay body shaming *
"Nicko Cassidy speaks to ABC News about his experience facg body shamg the gay NewsData shows that gay men have higher rat of eatg disorrs and other body image issu. Acrdg to the Natnal Eatg Disorr Associatn (NEDA), gay mal are thought to only reprent 5% of the total male populatn but among mal who have eatg disorrs, 42% intify as addn to facg eatg disorrs, gay men had lower self-teem related to their bodi and greater ncerns for physil attractivens when pared to straight men, acrdg to a study published the Journal of Consultg and Clil wh all populatns, body dysmorphia and eatg disorrs the gay muny n often be fueled by social media, experts say, cludg datg apps and posts that showse a false notn of the perfect man.
Experts say the body shamg some gay men experience wh medil risks. "The pursu of the ial body or the pursu of perfectn n certaly be damagg, " said Jason Whel, an Illois State Universy profsor and the thor of "Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Polics of Stigma. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News chief medil rrponnt and a board-certified OBGYN, scribed body shamg the gay muny as a "medil issue.
Media ptn, Gay body shamg prsure 'led to severe heart failure'"You're too ugly to be gay, " a man a Hudrsfield gay bar told Jakeb Artur was the latt a seri of ments om men that Jakeb says ma him feel worthls. Manchter-based chary the LGBT Foundatn has warned that body image issu are beg more wispread gay muni. It says gay and bisexual men are "much more likely" than heterosexual men to stggle wh them.
WHY BODY IMAGE ISSU PERVA THE GAY COMMUNY
The German anthology Me Schwul Auge | My Gay Eye has published works by over 500 ternatnal artists and thors. * gay body shaming *
A number of gay men have told the BBC they are gog to extreme lengths to change their bodi - cludg g steroids and havg plastic surgery - jt to bee "accepted" by others the LGBT muny.
"It jt hasn't been worth at all, " he Jakeb is not alone takg drastic measur to try to appeal to Bmpton - a software engeer om Lln - found himself "tapulted to this world of self-nscns", after he hooked up wh a man at a lol gay Jam went back to the man's hoe and took off his T-shirt, his date looked at him and ma a disgted noise. Acrdg to the most recent figur released by the Brish Associatn of Athetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps), 179 abdomoplasti were performed on men 2018 - up 18% on the prev Afsh Mosahebi, of Baaps, says gay men are currently havg more smetic procr done than straight men, although he not that women have more procr than men overall.
"People havg their profil 'no fats', or that they're only to mascule and mcular guys, so they don't want anyone that's super skny, " he on social media and leadg gay magaz have also led Jam to feel he is an "var the space".
GAY MEN AND BODY PERFECTN
While people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) experience body image ncerns ways that are generally siar to people who intify as heterosexual, their experience and relatnship wh their body is likely to differ specific ways. * gay body shaming *
"The ia your head is that to be a gay man, is to look like a Calv Kle mol, " he of "sexy bodi" drive sal of gay magaz, acrdg to Matthew Todd, a former edor of one such publitn, Attu. "I thk says more about what rears are g to gay publitns for.
"Low self-teemMatthew, the thor of Straight Jacket: How to be gay and happy, says homophobia has fuelled gay men's body issu. "The rult has been that gay men are unr more prsure than straight men to have the perfect body, Matthew says.
"If you go on to some gay datg apps, you would thk that the vast majory of gay men are supermols, " he ntu.