Gay male beauty
Holloway on Toxic Male Beauty Standards in Gay Culture
In a GQ article, associate professor of social welfare Ian Holloway commented on oppressive male beauty standards that are detrimental to body image, particularly within the gay collective. The article highlighted the absurdity of societal expectations for six-pack abs, which have become a barometer for male attractiveness. As a result, even the fittest men battle with body image. Holloway, who runs a private perform in West Hollywood working with male lover individuals and couples, explained, “The immense majority of my clients, despite what their external appearance might be, whether they have a six-pack or not, wrestle with this ideal image of themselves. Body-image issues are at the top of the list of things they struggle with.” Holloway recommends, “It’s important for guys to get a clear idea of what&#;s attainable and realistic and perform towards that, as opposed to trying to achieve the impossible ideal we&#;re bombarded with.”
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There’s a silent danger looming among gay men: the pressure surrounding beauty standards, body image, and consequences that follow.
What Is Body Image?
Body image relates to the relationship you possess with your physical appearance. It captures the values, feelings, and actions you have surrounding your body.
We often hold a positive or neutral body image. Societal pressure could negatively shift our image. A negative body image takes control of our lives by impacting socialization, habits, and self-talk. In shift , these changes can contain downstream mental and physical health consequences.
People of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic standings are vulnerable to body image issues – each layer of intersectional identity impacts body image differently. This article examines unique body image pressures impacting gay men.
Body Image Pressures Outside The Gay Community
Our external nature sets the rules for beauty. We witness beauty norms and measure it against ourselves; we may internalize these.
Minority Stress
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This morning started out not much different from the other days of my adult life. I woke up, greeted my canine, grabbed coffee, and went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. As usual, I bent over in front of the mirror, not for a improve brushing angle, but so I wouldn’t have to see the reflection of my fat, naked stomach staring back at me.
Later, once I’d showered and position my clothes on, I felt the bulge over my pants, grabbed it on the front and sides, and tried to figure out if my stomach was bigger or smaller than the day before. That’s another ritual I practice every day—actually, several times a day. If you count how often I examine my stomach in the gym mirrors while I’m active out, it’s practically an activity all by itself.
That song “Victoria’s Secret” came on the auto radio when I went upstate a couple of weeks endorse, and, as always when I hear such tunes, I felt terrible for all the women in the world who tolerate from body dysmorphia and every horrible thing that goes with it. What I forgot, and what shouldn’t have escaped me, since I’d been plagued all weeke
As a gay man, when I tune into beauty I connect with the source that creates being. From that source comes my inspiration, that quality which allows me to create and bring value into the world.
Following in the steps of the exploration I began in, Is Forgiveness of Homophobia a Gay Male Gift? LOP, today I debate (in very sensual terms) the qualities and value that gay men convey to the betterment of society and culture.
According to Raymond L. Rigolisoso in, Gay Men and The New Way Forward, one of gay men’s 14 distinct gifts is a “fine attunement to beauty”, specifically that gay men are “creators and keepers of culture.”
Appreciation of beauty is a highly sensual experience.
At the extreme, intense love-making can be one of the most sensual experience we will ever have. Every one of our senses is activated to the max: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and sensation (or feeling). This overwhelm of the senses takes place outside of time and place, as every moment is felt in the moment and we are lost in sensation.
For many gay men, sex has been a way to define their identity