Quote Originally Posted by XXXWriterDude
.........now that virtually every gay magazine and website is saturating the community with images of impossibly perfect-looking (and often Photoshopped) men that don't resemble real people.

When the metrosexual fad was in I thought the same thing.

People in our community are generally smart. I think it's more eye candy then it is role model setting. Most of us know, or know someone who knows, some hopeless Muscle Mary that's on this or that routine using this or that supplement that spends this or that many days at the gym.

Everyone has their own thing, their niche where they feel they fit in the world with a group they relate to. For some it's Musle Mary, for others it's Drag, others it's metrosexual, or parenting, or being average, or being nerdy, etc.

Before modern day media there were the gladiators in rome, or the warriors of a village, etc. etc. The idolized alpha male has always existed in society. Society will always have people who are insecure and will try to obtain something to boost their self esteim whether it be muscles, money, sex partners, clothes, cars, boats, houses, etc. For those few insecure people that's their problem. For most of us muscle men are just eye candy.