RoseC

'Runner - If Climate change is the metaphor, then I think you just call me a chloroflurocarbon. : )'

I will pay that one Rose.

We are unique

You are the life of the party! I would love to hear your personality analysis of the beauties in the “Zoo” magazine. I think women are much more evocative when clad; take Di Vinci’s Mona Lisa as an example.

here you go pericles...it's by AP,so I can't be sure if it was written by male or female but it claims to site actual stats relating to male self image (and for more of the same, you probably only need to google those words)
cheers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15160230/ns/health-mens_health/

*"Every woman needs to feel like a sex symbol at least once in her life"*

Well Pericles, you are free to get your gear off and post your
naked photos out there, then see if you have any takers :)

Rose, that link described a survey of college students. I was more interested in a male parallel to your focus on the changing attitudes to body image, "over time", as it were.

I suspect that the chances of a man being motivated to do what you have done, and for the reasons that you state, are somewhere between Buckleys and Nunn.

But on the off-chance that one exists on this thread, I thought it would be interesting to explore the sort of language he would adopt when writing the equivalent piece.

And I appreciate the offer, Yabby.

>>Well Pericles, you are free to get your gear off and post your naked photos out there, then see if you have any takers<<

Unfortunately, George Clooney has already asked, very nicely, if I would refrain from doing just that.

It's not that he's exactly afraid of the competition, he explained to me, but he simply cannot afford to take the chance.

And I can relate to that.

Curious then Pericles

which of 'my reasons' don't you feel would come from a bloke. The ones stemming from the altruistic side or the ones stemming from egotistic side, or both?