Exposure to sexually explicit material and variations in body esteem, genital attitudes, and sexual esteem among a sample of Canadian men.

From: The Journal of Men's Studies | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Men's exposure to media imagery depicting idealistic representations of the male body (specifically, the muscular mesomorphic ideal) has been linked to decrements in satisfaction with physical appearance. For example, in a recent experimental study, Lorenzen, Grieve, and Thomas (2004) found that male participants shown images of muscular models evidenced a significant decrease in level of body satisfaction as determined by a comparison of pre- and post-exposure scores on the Body Assessment scale. No difference in scores was found for participants shown average (i.e., nonmuscular) ...

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