Men of Steel Feel Like 97-Pound Weaklings.

Why are men so much

more concerned

about their bodies today

than they were 50 years ago?

This was the question

Harrison G. Pope Jr., a

professor of psychiatry at

Harvard Medical School, and

two colleagues asked

themselves after noticing a

sharp increase in male gym

memberships, anabolic

steroid use and especially

body image disorders,

including muscle dysmorphia

(sometimes called

bigorexia), an illness

characterized by compulsive

exercising and the sufferer’s

irrational conviction that he

is weak and puny even

though he may be bulging

with muscle.

New York Times