Janna S
Second Unit
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2001
- Messages
- 287
Excerpts from a recent wire service article:
It's the naked truth. More and more men are shaving ... their chests. Yeah, it's a wooly concept. But check out your men's magazines. Check out your TV and movie stars. Check out your hip-hoppers, boy bands or just about any dude in his late teens or 20s preening on the campus quad or during spring break.
Heck, if you want just ask the guys of Kappa Sigma at the University of Kansas. No, not models or bodybuilders. Just regular old Middle American men.
"Put it this way," junior Brian Horn said on the phone. "there are six guys in this room right now, and out of that number ... wait ... hey, hey, quiet down! How many of you guys shave your chests? One, two, there are three guys out of six who do."
...
Marianne Butler, director of photography for Men's Health magazine, concedes that in the five years she has been there she can think of only one or two occasions when the magazine has photographed a man who wasn't either shaved or naturally bare chested.
"Should a model come in with chest hair," she said, "we would shave him."
...
"I think it just comes from advertising," [Jennifer] Mangan [co-owner of Exposure Model and Talent Agency Inc. in Kansas City] said. "There is so much moire emphasis today on the body. They are so inundated from the time they are young with images that tell them they have to be sexy and have the perfect body."
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Ian Worthington, a professor of ancient Greek history at the University of Missouri Columbia, notes that among the younger citizens of ancient Thebes, Athens and Corinth, "it was believed that chest hair hid the body beautiful."
Look at Adonis. Look at Michelangelo's neoclassical sculpture of David. Look at most Greek statutary. You might see a few beards, but rarely is there a chest hair in sight.
,,,
This way lies madness, guys. Fight back by just being what you are.
Janna
It's the naked truth. More and more men are shaving ... their chests. Yeah, it's a wooly concept. But check out your men's magazines. Check out your TV and movie stars. Check out your hip-hoppers, boy bands or just about any dude in his late teens or 20s preening on the campus quad or during spring break.
Heck, if you want just ask the guys of Kappa Sigma at the University of Kansas. No, not models or bodybuilders. Just regular old Middle American men.
"Put it this way," junior Brian Horn said on the phone. "there are six guys in this room right now, and out of that number ... wait ... hey, hey, quiet down! How many of you guys shave your chests? One, two, there are three guys out of six who do."
...
Marianne Butler, director of photography for Men's Health magazine, concedes that in the five years she has been there she can think of only one or two occasions when the magazine has photographed a man who wasn't either shaved or naturally bare chested.
"Should a model come in with chest hair," she said, "we would shave him."
...
"I think it just comes from advertising," [Jennifer] Mangan [co-owner of Exposure Model and Talent Agency Inc. in Kansas City] said. "There is so much moire emphasis today on the body. They are so inundated from the time they are young with images that tell them they have to be sexy and have the perfect body."
...
Ian Worthington, a professor of ancient Greek history at the University of Missouri Columbia, notes that among the younger citizens of ancient Thebes, Athens and Corinth, "it was believed that chest hair hid the body beautiful."
Look at Adonis. Look at Michelangelo's neoclassical sculpture of David. Look at most Greek statutary. You might see a few beards, but rarely is there a chest hair in sight.
,,,
This way lies madness, guys. Fight back by just being what you are.
Janna
