{"id":1925,"date":"2010-05-24T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:10:24","slug":"average-size-guys-are-fine-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/average-size-guys-are-fine-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Average-Size Guys Are Fine, Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/beefcakehunk.jpg\" alt=\"Beefcake hunk\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/normalhunk.jpg\" alt=\"Average hunk\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/executive-style\/fitness\/sixpack-punch-overrated-as-other-male-body-types-muscle-in-20100523-w42u.html\" target=\"blank\">SMH<\/a> says: A report in the Australian journal <em>Body Image<\/em> has found that consumers respond positively to depictions of average-sized men in advertising. The survey asked over 600 students in their late teens to look at mock-up advertisements for products, some using muscle-bound men and others using thinner or chubbier male models. The results showed that the \u201cbuffed\u201d models didn\u2019t rate any higher than average guys.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neither sex responded more positively to the musclebound bodies, and the males even found ads that showed just the item &#8211; with no accompanying model &#8211; more effective than those posed by classic hunks.<\/p>\n<p>Some participants in the University of Queensland study &#8221;may have attributed the models&#8217; muscularity to vanity or homosexuality, characteristics which they may have found unpleasant or discomforting&#8221;, [study leader] Ms Diedrichs wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that male respondents preferred not to see a male model at all. This is not news; it&#8217;s why the guy&#8217;s heads are always cut off in porn films and why we never see naked men in mainstream film. To even <em>look<\/em> at another man carries hints of homosexuality for some people and therefore must not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>It think it&#8217;s an interesting and useful study that also reveals a lot about gay stereotypes and how we allow men a lot more leeway in their appearance than women. <\/p>\n<p>On a personal level, I don&#8217;t mind a nice six pack or well-defined muscles, although if the guy looks like a boofhead, I&#8217;m not so interested. I think a man&#8217;s smile and his eyes are very important factors in whether he is attractive or not.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMH says: A report in the Australian journal Body Image has found that consumers respond positively to depictions of average-sized men in advertising. The survey asked over 600 students in their late teens to look at mock-up advertisements for products, some using muscle-bound men and others using thinner or chubbier male models. The results showed that the \u201cbuffed\u201d models didn\u2019t rate any higher than average guys. Neither sex responded more <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/average-size-guys-are-fine-thanks\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13],"tags":[49,133,501,546,677],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-pics","category-naked-men","category-popular-culture","tag-advertising","tag-body-image","tag-male-models","tag-muscles","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}