In "Beauty Rediscovers the Male Body", Susan Bordo writes an analysis on the male body in advertising. Bordo discusses how, in society and fashion, the male body is not typically used as a symbol of arousal, in contrast to the female body which is often used in a sexual context. She continues by saying that the naked or half-naked female body is seen as "an object of mainstream consumption", while the male body is just beginning to be a commercial representation" object." Twenty years ago, the nude male body was not used as a public image or in advertising. ... Manufacturers are aware of w...

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"I Sing the Body Electric,"" is a poem where Whitman explores the human body in a series of lists. ... A connection between men's and women's bodies, stating that both bodies are sacred, so all bodies in themselves are sacred. ... His attention is addressed to a scene of a male and female slave being put up for auction. ... Whitman believes that no matter the color of the skin on the body, the body is still made of the same pieces that make every other body perfect. ... This ending to the poem can be seen as a sort of climax of the poem as it gives reason for the praise of the body a...

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Having a great body is one of the things that everyone dreams of. Nowadays, body image has become an important part of our life. ... For men, the perfect figure is having a bigger and muscular body, while women want to be slim and tall. ... In these times, magazines, television, newspapers and advertisements are the types of media that can affect their way of thinking because these young males and females are prone to be influenced easily. ... These young males and females are willing to change the size of their body in order to get the idyllic body imag...

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Males and females provide balance in a society that is so dominating when it comes down to the male figure. Normally, society labels males and females as being opposites where as the law tries to provide the same rules to a male as it does to a female. ... Males have a vast advantage compared to women. Males were born to have a stronger physical structure. ... They see themselves having to be a strong body structure and tough on the inside by not showing their emotions. ...

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According to Mosbey's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, Body Composition is defined as the relative proportions of protein, fat, water, and mineral components in the body. It varies as a result of differences in body density and degree of obesity. Basically body composition describes the percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in a persons body. ... Body composition also contributes to a persons overall appearance. A healthy male should have about12 to 18 percent of fat. ...

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Body modification and adornment is a universal culture. ... Body adornment and modification is a very broad subject, ranging from ceremonial body paint to the amputation of appendages. ... Soldiers in Caesar's army pierced their nipples, while male members of the Victorian Court wore Prince Albert piercings (piercing of the genitalia) as a 'dressing ring,' and was used to secure the penis to either leg with a string or thong, to suit the fashion at the time." Pants were cut very closely at the crotch, and would make the male genitalia very pronounced. ... Amputation of body part...

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Reshape, pierce, tattoos or simple adorn their bodies. Body art is a way of people expressing themselves. ... There are several body art techniques but the one that people use more these day are body shaping, tattoos, and hairstyle. ... Body shaping, the shape of the human body changes throughout life, but in many cultures people have found ways to permanently or temporarily sculpt the body. To conform to culturally defined ideals of male and female beauty, people have stretched their necks with rings, removed ribs to achieve tiny waists, and "most commonly today sculpted the body through pla...

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Body Modification Body modification and adornment is a universal culture. ... Body adornment and modification is a very broad subject, ranging from ceremonial body paint to amputation of appendages. Body piercing is the subject that is going to be discussed in this paper. ... Pants were cut very closely at the crotch, and would make the male genitalia very pronounced. ... However, as body modification becomes more popular, it becomes contradicting. ...

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I did not choose this body type but it certainly chose me. ... Wether male, female, big, or small chested society shies away from the term "busty.... It even has a coarse connotation which co encodes with the way I was told to view my body. ... This is a body type is widely desired and even prized. ... My body type does not change due to the use of a convenient euphemism, it is what it is. ...

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There are many forms of body modification, but tattooing is the most common of all. ... A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. ... In the 1990's, between Austria and Italy, a human body was recovered with lots of tattoos; it is estimated that the man died somewhere 3200 BCE. It is possible that the body marks were in some ways medicinal or use in a practice of healing; however, it could also be decorative and bearers of meaning in terms of rank and identity. ... In many cultures the tattooing proc...

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This leaves males trying to validate their masculinity by using their body as an instrument of power dominance and control. Kilbourne state's that "Men's bodies are not routinely judged or invaded. ... She believes that if a women whistles at a man or brushes up against his body it is her who is at risk. ... The objectification of women's bodies is a step that has been taken with women and not men. ... This would lead us to believe that since it is the female's body that is most often objectified that the male species is in power. ...

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This can be done in a number of ways, mainly through advertisements in which the male and female body is often used to sell products, some that don't seem entirely relevant to be presented only by people with "beautiful" bodies. In this essay I will be talking about how women's body shapes have been represented through a number of different trends in society over the last few decades and how these changes have brought different ideas about what society perceives to be a perfect body, and how this has had a massive affect on society, especially at a time when new technology allows us ...

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The male fossil showed that the pelvis was big enough to pass a newborn baby of today's size through its canal. ... Both the male and female were about the same height of that of today's people but that they were much heftier. Scientists were able to determine the body weight of a male to be about 210 pounds and the female to weigh about 170 pounds, obviously much heavier than the average man and woman of today. ... From all these fossil findings, anthropologists went back and carefully looked at other fossils that showed some of the same traits in their body size. These were mad...

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Critical Summary Article: "Queer Cut Bodies" By Morgan Holmes Intersexuality can be understood as people who were born with both male and female organs. "Queer Cut Bodies" explains that intersexed bodies are actually "clear cut bodies", because these medico cultures have literally "cut" these bodies in order to make them "fit" in the society of Western culture. ... "bodies [that] are neither male nor female make them clearly intersexed rather than confused or incomprehensible." ... So physicians then developed a goal: to only view these desires from a male or female perspective. ... ...

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The film soon dives into an underworld of this all black male, homosexual Harlem movement. ... Looking for Langston is a very genuine search for Black gay male desire. It is Langston Hughes search for a Black gay male identity. ... The moments leading up to the love affair; showing their exchanged looks at the bar, the sensuality in the close-ups of each character's body, and the final moments of the couple's first kiss. ...

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They are chemicals of artificial testosterone, which is a male hormone. ... Five percent of male and two percent of female high school students are using steroids. So that would be equal to 375 thousand males and 175 thousand females. ... Inside their bodies they are actually ruining themselves. ... For females you could get male patterned baldness, smaller breasts, deeper voices, hairy bodies and menstrual irregularities. ...

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I think that because their bodies are already starting to change, they will need to know what is happening to them in order to figure out why they feel how they do. If somebody would have told me what was going on the first time I had an erection, maybe I wouldn't have been convinced that my body was about to explode. ... I think that males are much more aware of their penises and what they have the potential to do, as masturbation is seemingly more common and frequent among males. However, I also think that women whose bodies are developing also need to know as much or possibly more t...

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It has been very popular amongst body builders as it is very effective for increasing body strength and helps gain muscle mass. ... Sometimes the changes in a female body are not reversible. ... So if a male body builder who is taking Dianabol, marries a female body builder then the child will have normal muscle mass. ... Pseudohermanphroditism is a defect in a child who is born with both female and male sex traits. ... However, it can also be that the child has an appearance of a female but has parts of male organs in the pelvis. ...

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In these passages, Albert subtly hints at how "man, the most perfect of all animals#" has a definite social hierarchy inscribed in the body. ... "# This description conforms to the traditional gender roles held still to this day, with the male being the decisive, "operative and formative agent", and the female provides support and sustenance. Albert notes Galen's observations that the male sperm acts as a necessity, a power, and an agent, while the colder female seminal fluid serves as nourishment of the male sperm.# This sexism is also seen in Albert's passages concerning the d...

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When the public speaks of male robots or cyborgs, Robocop and the Terminator are often the first to be talked about. ... "(95) Male cyborgs are usually given physical characteristics as aggressive with bulging bodies, almost identical to Robocop. ... "(99) The male body in a cyborg may be undermined by a sequence or narrative that interferes to make him seem like a suspect or criminal. ... Only his brain was biological; all other parts of his body are completely robotic. ... "(114) Eve 8 also has a complete circulatory system (although, it doesn't work,) and flesh to cover her body, as o...

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Understanding the body is one of the essential components of sexual development when the children are young. ... Parents should understand that young toddlers love being naked and exploring their bodies. The children would start understanding their gender of male or female at the age of 2 or 3. ... At this early stage, the child will start to associate with certain behaviors referred to as gender roles of being male or female (Zosuls, et al 2011). ... The children get to explore their bodies purposefully during the period (Zosuls, et al 2011). ...

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Some girls feel that the media pressures them to have a perfect body. Advertising images have also been accused of setting unrealistic ideals for males. ... Many males are insecure about their physical appearance as advertising and other media images raise the standard and idealize well built men. ... Advertisers need to understand the consequences to their ads that they are displaying to the teenagers of today, both male and female. ... So think about the millions of teens who are unsatisfied with their body image or wardrobe and help them out. ...

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The United States Navy studied the upper body strength in 38 men and women. ... Overall, the female solider has been 4.7 inches shorter, 33.9 pounds lighter, and she has had 37.8 less lean body mass. Lean body mass has been related to one's physical strength (Catherine L. ... Resentment built up among the male soldiers and ultimately caused the unit's morale to fall apart. ... Women tend to outscore their male counterparts on written tests (Komarow). ...

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Women have the same number of hairs on their bodies and faces as men do , but the male hormone , testosterone , makes hairs thicker , darker and longer , making them more noticeable . Some women with noticeable body hair have normal amounts of testosterone and inherit this tendency . Others have a tumor or medical condition that causes their bodies to produce larger amounts of testosterone. Women with noticeable body and facial hair should get blood tests for testosterone to measure male hormones made by the ovaries and DH...

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A) Introduction Hemophilia is the most common hereditary blood disorder, affecting approximately one in ten thousand people, almost all male. ... Hemophilia is classified as either mild, moderate or severe, depending on the amount of clotting factor a person has in his body. ... A person with severe hemophilia has less than 1% of the normal amount of clotting factor in their body. ... Which is bleeding that starts inside the body for no known reason. ... This makes him male. ...

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