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+As looksmaxxing is growing in popularity and promoted on many social media platforms (Notopoulos 2023), we propose that looksmaxxing is an emerging health and social issue. In this paper, we analyse a popular online looksmaxxing community for men that focuses on rating physical appearance and providing self‐improvement recommendations (e.g., surgery). [buy testosterone powder](https://git.violka-it.net/remonawest1757) replacement therapy (TRT) can have a profound impact on self-confidence and self-image in men.
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+Instead, men must thread the needle of looksmaxxing, using medicine to enhance their masculinity, but receiving too much intervention—or having the appearance of having had too many interventions—is not masculine. Here, in contrast to Watson (2000), the users are not just seeking to ‘be in shape’ or have an ‘everyday body’, but to have an exceptional body that makes them desirable and places them above other men. Although some users situate their appearance altering practices as means to simply look or feel better, they more typically position them as a means to appeal to women or to ‘ascend’ (i.e., have a romantic/sexual relationship). We further suggest that men supply ratings to participate in hegemonic masculinity.
+Indeed, we suggest that looksmaxxing is an exemplar of how hegemonic masculinity can harm the men who endorse it, as the practice has clear consequences for the health of men and boys (e.g., suicidal ideation). Such praise also buttresses our medicalisation arguments above, as both users tie their sexual successes to major physical interventions. Taken together, the community advocates a ‘goldilocks’ approach to intervention, wherein men need to looksmax to participate in hegemonic masculinity, but too much looksmaxxing is perceived as effeminate and violating hegemonic ideals. Here, interventions intersect with the hegemonic masculine gaze as only bodies that meet specific masculine criteria can use medicalisation to participate in hegemonic masculinity. The specific power relations, in this case, are bound to lookism and hegemonic masculinity (Connell 1995) as men are pursuing bodies that they tie to the social benefits received by both physically attractive and dominant men. Second, we describe how users medicalise masculinity by connecting interventions to perceived masculine deficits. First, we detail the hegemonic masculine gaze of looksmaxxing as users analyse and critique each other's bodies as masculine projects.
+Whether such recommendations are trivial or consequential, they are often aimed at increasing sexual success. Others provide the user with similar forms of advice, ranging from jaw surgery to plucking his eyebrows, for the purposes of getting matches on Tinder. Although this point seems counterintuitive, it might suggest that members position any form of heterosexual rejection as a worse experience than even the caustic critiques they receive from other men. Through such policing, we suggest that members maintain the dominance of hegemonic expectations and subordinate men who do not meet such bodily ideals. Men who score 3/10 or lower are ‘subhuman’ whose lives are ‘over’ and are often told they are ‘too ugly’ to become Chads through looksmaxxing, but that looksmaxxing might help them look ‘normal’. Attractive men of colour are referred to with racist and hyper‐sexualised caricatures, such as ‘Tyrone’ (Black men) or ‘Chang’ (Asian men). Users most frequently rate each other using the PSL scale, an acronym for three manosphere forums (Puahate.com, Sluthate.com and Lookism.net), which are positioned to have developed ‘objective’ criteria for rating physical attractiveness.
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+Similarly, research indicates that men judge their bodies in relation to masculine norms while feeling pressured to remain nonchalant about their efforts to improve their appearances (Grogan and Richards 2002; Norman 2011; Simpson and Adams 2019). Lookism has been connected to several negative outcomes (e.g., reduced wages), including poor health outcomes (e.g., Monk, Esposito, and Lee 2021). Our study develops concepts, analyzes the performance of gender and health,  [https://gitea.pnkx.top](https://gitea.pnkx.top:8/adalbertobetti) and articulates the consequences of self‐improvement practices in the manosphere. Second, we show how the community encourages men to substantially alter their bodies (e.g., with leg lengthening surgeries or by mewing). As we age, our bodies undergo various changes, including a natural decline in hormone...
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