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Old June 11th, 2009 #1
Harry Flash
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Default 'Crisis In Masculinity' Leads To Eating Disorders In Straight Men

'Crisis In Masculinity' Leads To Eating Disorders In Straight Men

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'Young heterosexual men are falling prey to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia just as much as women and gay men - and their numbers are increasing, a leading specialist has warned.
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To be a young man is our society is a difficult thing. What you do and who you are is less straightforward. Women were challenged decades ago to consider which of the many different social roles they adopted. Now men are having to respond to the choices that society gives them.

"Suddenly younger straight men have similar pressures to gay men and women. There is a crisis of masculinity in our society. They are given all these roles and to simply decide to manipulate your body is a nice easy solution to all the complexities of life."


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153277.php
 
Old June 11th, 2009 #2
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If that doesn't encapsulate how confused many young men are today, I don't know what does. I think being a man is much more complicated than being a woman. Men need to be taught by other men, and guided. Not that I agree with half of what she's written, but in Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia rightly points out that men need more socializing than women, or they become lost and dangerous--to themselves, and to society. Society has basically abandoned men today.
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