I became fascinated with changing male body ideals. French historian George Vigarello has written about how the ideal male figure and male silhouette shifted in Western society. British and ...

17 The study population was composed of male students aged 7–17 years ... Body image was self-assessed through a body silhouette scale proposed by Stunkard and Sorensen, 18 which is composed ...

Chapman and Douglas Brown trace the origins of the sculpted, nearly nude, or totally bare male silhouette across the ... The "male body factored prominently in the construction of modern ...