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By J. Kevin Thompson, Guy Cafri

The muscular perfect is more and more turning into the popular physique variety for males, adolescent boys or even a few ladies. Why is that this physique kind the recent excellent, and the way did it improve? Why are a few humans pushed to in attaining heightened muscularity, and the way do they do it? What dangers to actual and psychological overall healthiness are concerned while severe behaviors are undertaken within the pursuit of the muscular excellent? This edited ebook attracts on new examine to supply an outline of the muscular excellent, together with ancient and current socioeconomic developments, evaluation and dimension matters, and scientific presentation of problems similar to muscle dysmorphia. Chapters additionally conceal similar concerns akin to steroid use, repeated beauty surgical procedure, and prevention matters.

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2005) further reported a huge underground black market that makes illegal steroids readily available to adult and teenage men. Muscle Dysmorphia Mental health professionals have noted the appearance of a new psychological disorder, muscle dysmorphia. , 1997; see also, chap. 6, this volume). Muscle dysmorphia, which almost exclusively affects men, involves the pathological drive for muscularity in which the person feels puny despite pronounced bodily development. Some research suggests that the drive for muscularity may be the starting point for muscle dysmorphia, just as the drive for thinness is a precursor to the development of anorexia nervosa (Choi, 2000; Olivardia, Pope, & Hudson, 2000).

A. (1996). The broken mirror: Understanding and treating body dysmorphic disorder. New York: Oxford University Press. Picket, T. , Lewis, R. , & Cash, T. F. (2005). Men, muscles and body image: Comparisons of competitive body builders, weight trainers and athletically active controls. Journal of Sports Medicine, 39, 217-222. , & Garfield, D. (1997). Gender differences in body satisfaction. Obesity Research, 5, 402-409. Pope, H. , Gruber, A. , & Phillips, K. A. (1997). Muscle dysmorphia, an underrecognized form of body dysmorphic disorder.

Such a change in BMI has taken place in other Western countries, however, without an increase in body satisfaction. Non-Western Cultures Although findings are somewhat mixed, research suggests that the presence of muscularity plays a limited role in mating or sexual attraction in non-Western cultures (Dotson, 1999). Taiwanese men have a considerably smaller discrepancy than Western men between their own perceived muscularity and their estimate of women's preferred muscularity. S. , 2005). , 2005).

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