Tag: gay subcultures

While in wider society it’s often women who bear the brunt of society’s expectations about physical appearance, in the gay world men can find themselves just as caught up in obsessing about how we look. Gay subcultures can be extremely image obsessed - not only about weight, but about muscle, and about youth. So while on the one hand gay men often look after their bodies better than straight men do, this can move over to becoming unhealthily obsessed...