{"id":725,"date":"2012-01-25T23:43:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2012-01-25T23:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:43:01","slug":"half-of-gay-men-would-die-a-year-early-for-the-perfect-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/01\/half-of-gay-men-would-die-a-year-early-for-the-perfect-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of gay men \u201cwould die a year early\u201d for the perfect body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine in ten gay men admit they enforce \u201cunrealistic\u201d images of lean and muscular men in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, only a third of straight men said they would give a year or more for an ideal body shape, and 77% admitted buying into the body image ideal.<\/p>\n<p>The research was part of a study commissioned by Central YMCA, the Succeed Foundation and the Centre for Appearance Research at UWE Bristol into how men talk about their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Gay respondents were consistently more affected by body concerns and more likely to make body comparisons than straight men.<\/p>\n<p>They were also significantly more likely to use what the study authors called \u201cbody talk\u201d: speech that implicitly or explicitly reinforces or endorses the traditional western standard of male attractiveness: tall, lean, muscular, toned body with clear skin and a full head of hair.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/01\/06\/half-of-gay-men-would-die-a-year-early-for-the-perfect-body\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/01\/ManmeasuringtapeCREDFlickrA.Drian_.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-726\" title=\"ManmeasuringtapeCREDFlickrA.Drian_\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/01\/ManmeasuringtapeCREDFlickrA.Drian_.jpg?resize=300%2C286&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine in ten gay men admit they enforce \u201cunrealistic\u201d images of lean and muscular men in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, only a third of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}