"Unachievable" Male Body Image?

I get told I look like Maui from Moana, pretty much because of my hair. My upper body just needs a little bit more work, haha, to match him. And I need to cover myself in tattoos.

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Well, I don’t think it is really required for women either. You are not evidence of that though, since you are good looking!

Haha, I don’t think there is anything wrong with it, just not my thing. Would be very easy if it was something of interest though (I think).

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Unsure if there are any bowling lanes here:

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BTW, Thor is worthless to us in the Hemworth version. Tiny and fragile.

Much better everyday easy to maintain look that doesn’t scream PED enthusiast:

Haha, doesn’t make me sound very straight, but I have been there. No bowling lanes.

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I heard that ride in there is something. Afraid to post the pic. That would be over the line.

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Simpler times.

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It’s been awhile since I have been there. Do they have a giant golden penis that works like a mechanical bull? I can’t remember if it was the 90s or sex world (down the street) that had the giant golden penis?

Heard it was the former.

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It is good to have answers to questions like this. I did a bit of digging. I think both establishments have giant golden mechanical penises.

One of my partneris a powerlifter who’s been at it religiously for a solid 2 years (and he’d been lifting for 3 years before that). Coached by a top coach, almost never goes out, or cheat, follows his diet, video logs everything, training etc…

Just super dedicated. He gained quite the mass honestly, probably bigger than me now and has crazy big glutes. But his performance is still terrible (165/120/205) even though it improved

One of our client started powerlifting like a few months ago (he’s 18), frail a as rail (73 kgs I think) and just squatted 200 kgs after a raging night of drinking

So yeah, life can be unfair.

I almost always trained for strength/performance yet I am better at being aesthetic and cardio…

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this is such an incel comment to make. You’re basically just saying ‘the thing I can’t change about myself is all that really matters, and the things that I have complete control over don’t matter’. That’s an incel/victim mentality.

I’ve had, essentially, the same face my entire adult life. I promise you that putting on 70 lbs of muscle made a massive difference in how I am perceived by basically everyone. It’s certainly not a thing that ‘barely factors’. The only people who would ever say something like that are people who haven’t experienced both sides of it.


including photo of me at 18 years old for reference

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As a “big guy” I cannot imagine looking that size at 18 years old, dude. I might’ve looked like that at…age 10 or something, haha.

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To be fair, you now have an awesome beard.

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I avoided saying this, but was thinking it haha.

And I think it changes the way the face looks too. The same head on a thin vs thick neck can look vastly different. A think neck can make one look more masculine.

Not only that, but one can change how their face looks. Losing significant weight usually makes one look a lot better.

BTW, nice leanness genetics.

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I do not think “size” effects your face. Leanness does 100%.

You now what - for all of the back and forth on here I think I genuinely have a distorted view of what is achievable. And what is realistic. Defiantly if I’m looking to keep a level of aesthetic quality about myself. I’ve just always looked at the super hero movies and just media in general and I see a lot of guys that look “good”. Sure. But I always assumed that look is within reach. Even with out the TRT+ I assume most of them are on.

Perhaps I’m wrong. Perhaps I need to adjust my expectations? We will see. I guess there is only one way to really find out.

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lol, no it is not a requirement to be good looking to slay men. it’s funny because from what I’ve seen gay dudes care WAY more about physique than any straight dude lol.

the comment was not made in a woe is me capacity, more just a realist statement. my face is like a 3.8 at best and i wear glasses which knocks it down even farther lol. I’m not denying me(or anyone else) adding muscle has helped me being more attractive or that it does in general, just saying it doesn’t matter as much as face. if i thought muscle and physique didn’t matter i wouldn’t be on this site lol.

I think there’s a lot of perspective skewing going on with any media representation of someone.

Take T3hPwnisher- he looks absolutely massive in his shirtless photos, but if I just saw his videos then I wouldn’t think that he’s pure muscle. He just looks like he has really big arms honestly.

I don’t think anyone here actually ever met Chris Helmsworth at his peak when he’s in character as Thor. So we have no idea whether what we see on the screen even comes close to reality.

I think this applies to every good looking people we see in pictures or on film. It’s just an image they’re showing. We don’t know if that’s even close to reality, or what they did to get there.

I honestly am starting to think that film actors and Crossfit Games athletes have a lot in common as far as physique is concerned. Namely, the general populace seem to operate under the premise that they’re clean (except for certain people like Dwayne Johnson), even though their workload and their possible rewards makes it very clear that they have ZERO incentive to be clean.