Looking at sexy women gives men body-blues
Looking at pictures of sexy women in lads mags has a negative effect on men, scientists have found.
Researchers have known for some time that women get all self-conscious and worried about their body if they see too many images of attractive female models.
But now they say looking at scantily clad women like Jessica Biel and Megan Fox has the same impact on men, a risk many will be willing to take.
They asked a group of men to spend time looking at images of women in magazines such as FHM and Maxim ... oddly they didn't have much trouble rounding up a sample of testosterone-filled volunteers.
They then monitored how "reading" the magazines altered the way they viewed their own body, and how self-conscious they were about their looks.
"We found that reading lad magazines was related to having body self-consciousness a year later," said Jennifer Aubrey, assistant professor of communication at the University of Missouri.
"Men who viewed the layouts of objectified females reported more body self-consciousness.
"We wondered why magazines that were dominated by sexual images of women were having an effect on men's feelings about their own bodies."
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Aubrey speculates that the exposure to objectified females increased self-consciousness because men are reminded that in order to be sexually or romantically involved with a woman of similar attractiveness, they need to conform to strict appearance standards.
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