Magazines 'harm male body image'

Studies have shown that young people reading the so-called "small partners" can psychologically hurt the image of the perfect male physique that they contain.

Men's magazines often include pictures of women exposed to clothing, but Dr. David Giles says men's body images may be more dangerous.

His research on personality and individual differences has discovered that it is often easier for readers to over-exercise

"Lads" magazine has been increasingly successful in recent years, and is criticized not to cause problems to readers, but to be said to exploit women.

But Dr. Jill of the University of Winchester said that even though it would hurt the health, depending on the content, it might encourage men to become stronger.

Jessica Close of him and his colleague surveyed 161 men from 18 to 36 years old and discovered that those reading the magazine were affected by internal images.

Even more troublingly, they also state that they are more likely to consider using anabolic steroids to improve their appearance.

Dr. Jill says that: "The message of a typical youth magazine is that we need to develop muscle bodies to attract good associates.

"The reader internalizes this information, which creates anxiety about their bodies and is trying to fix them more and more desperately."

Some experts call this situation "motor nerve", but the more commonly used term is disorder of physical deformation.

Dr. Jill says:

"The amount of content is increasing, especially as young people have unhealthy obsession with their bodies."

In this survey, we found that single men have a much lower possibility of having physical image problems than romantic relationships.

Professor Naomi Fineberg, a consultant psychiatrist who provides treatment services for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, says men and women also suffer from physical deformity disorders.

"In men, there are people who concentrate on the muscles, rather than pursuing the perfection of aesthetics, they will concentrate on achieving that by pursuing certain regularity and symmetry .

"We can not certainly tell if these magazines cause it, but cultural factors are very important and it is highly convincing."

The counselor at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology reported that in the past 10 years male college students have expressed an increase in dissatisfaction with their bodies. Men regularly reading fitness magazines expressed greater dissatisfaction than those who do not. When a man is exposed to an unrealistic image of a man's body, the image of the male's body will be affected. According to a survey conducted by Psychology Today, men think women's appearance is more important for women, but women think that this is important. For example, men think that if they lose their hair they say that many women are willing to date a bald man, they do not want to date. To become more attractive, men spend billions of dollars on hair transplants, cosmetic surgery and thoracic muscle transplants. Some people do their best to improve the image of the human body.

In the UK survey, "Young men and women reading fitness magazines and fashion magazines can be psychologically hurt by perfect women and male physique images." The occlusion or muscle distortion stereotypes may remain the same, but the value of male stereotypes changed; masculinity is believed to be an unstable phenomenon never achieved. 30 to 31 years old

In fashion magazine and body image research, the role of media in psychopathology of body magazines is often considered a mediator through personality, but exposure to a thin ideal image of women's magazine is based on the body shape of many young women And concerns concerning size are related. And social and cultural factors. The objective of this study was to develop a practical fashion magazine that influences adolescent body images by carefully accumulating acceptable data and related data to conduct accurate and spontaneous research on these data It is to understand and collect the facts and causes. Its highly respected detailed support