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lol....nice!!! Do you have the "Adonis Complex" as well?
Originally posted by crombie09
The term "Adonis Complex" is not a medical term. It is being utilized to describe a variety of body image concerns which have been plaguing boys and men especially through the last decade. It does not describe any one body image problem of men, rather all the distortions collectively.
The term was extracted from Greek mythology which depicted Adonis as half man and half god who was considered the ultimate in masculine beauty. Adonis' body, according to sixteenth-century perspectives, was representative of the ultimate in male physique. According to mythology so beautiful was his body that he won the love of Aphrodite, queen of all gods.
One of the most famous renderings of Adonis was depicted by the Renaissance painter Titian. His painting shows Adonis with Aphrodite clutching his body with her arms. In Titan's painting Adonis looks heavy and out of shape in comparison to the men's physiques today which are seen splashed on the covers of magazines, in advertisements, and at gyms. (It could also be noted that Aphrodite, queen of the gods for the sixteenth century, appears quite full figured in comparison to what is considered the "ideal body" women today are striving for.)
This painting dramatically illustrates the fluidity of society over the ages with respect to its varying thoughts of the "ideal" or the "beautiful" human body. The development of the "Adonis Complex" shows that men are being targeted as vigorously as women have been for decades creating destructive obsessional disturbances concerning their own bodies. Men's body image concerns range from minor annoyances to serious and sometimes even life-threatening obsessions. They can present as manageable dissatisfaction at one end of the spectrum to extreme psychiatric body image disorders.
The term was extracted from Greek mythology which depicted Adonis as half man and half god who was considered the ultimate in masculine beauty. Adonis' body, according to sixteenth-century perspectives, was representative of the ultimate in male physique. According to mythology so beautiful was his body that he won the love of Aphrodite, queen of all gods.
One of the most famous renderings of Adonis was depicted by the Renaissance painter Titian. His painting shows Adonis with Aphrodite clutching his body with her arms. In Titan's painting Adonis looks heavy and out of shape in comparison to the men's physiques today which are seen splashed on the covers of magazines, in advertisements, and at gyms. (It could also be noted that Aphrodite, queen of the gods for the sixteenth century, appears quite full figured in comparison to what is considered the "ideal body" women today are striving for.)
This painting dramatically illustrates the fluidity of society over the ages with respect to its varying thoughts of the "ideal" or the "beautiful" human body. The development of the "Adonis Complex" shows that men are being targeted as vigorously as women have been for decades creating destructive obsessional disturbances concerning their own bodies. Men's body image concerns range from minor annoyances to serious and sometimes even life-threatening obsessions. They can present as manageable dissatisfaction at one end of the spectrum to extreme psychiatric body image disorders.
lol....nice!!! Do you have the "Adonis Complex" as well?
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