The Bad of Lads Mags
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"Lads" Magazines have been increasingly successful in recent years, and have attracted criticism for an alleged potential to exploit women rather than cause problems for their readership.
Together with colleague Jessica Close, [David Giles] surveyed 161 men aged between 18 and 36, and found that those who regularly read the magazines were more likely to be influenced by the imagery within.
Dr Giles said: "The message in typical lads' magazines is that you need to develop a muscular physique in order to attract a quality mate.
"Readers internalise this message, which creates anxieties about their actual bodies and leads to increasingly desperate attempts to modify them."
BBC: Magazines harm male body image, March 28, 2008Art: Boy sitting on a red couch, 1998, Patrick Procktor
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