Jezebel: man boobs

What A Boob

Margaret — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:20:00 EDT

PETA is running the billboard at left in Scotland, where the number of male breast-reduction surgeries rose 80% in 2007. The organization claims, "meat-eating is forcing many men to get in touch with their feminine side" by promoting obesity. [Guardian]

A new study suggests that men who drink...

Maria — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:20:00 EDT

A new study suggests that men who drink a lot of instant coffee or Brazil nuts may be at risk of developing man-boobs. Instant coffee and Brazil nuts in particular contain high-levels of "gender-bending chemicals," known as phytoestrogens, which also cause fertility problems in animals and increase the risk of breast cancer in women. Instant coffee has 1,833 micrograms of phytoestrogens per 100g and Brazil nuts had 867 microgams of phytoestrogens per 100g. Is this how Davy Jones's rack came about? [The Sun]

More British Boys Are Growing Man Boobs • Indian Men Go Under The Knife To Get Beautiful

Maria — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Rising obesity rates among British boys are behind the growing number of surgeries to reduce male breasts. • Nevada-based company creates toilet paper-alternative Biffy, or, as it is more commonly known, a bidet. • An international group of female ski jumpers sue the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics for excluding women's ski jumping. • As more and more families struggle financially, extravagant proms are going out of style. • Women are largely underrepresented in clinical trials for depression and lung cancer. • British pet-owners hope to prove their dog, Bella, is oldest in the world (at least 25!). • Roman Catholic nun who pushed to expose sex abuse in Boston churches, died Saturday at 73. • India's economic boom is making some middle-class men consider plastic surgery. • Dating websites for the mentally disabled and those with diseases are gaining in popularity. • A new documentary explores the lives of Muslim gays and lesbians. • Elisabeth Fritzl may sue her father for therapy costs and emotional damages. • Some people never learn: a woman from Truckee, CA is arrested for drunk driving in same spot where she crashed while intoxicated five months earlier.

Undo-plasty, The New Hot Surge

dodai — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:40:00 EST

According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, "revision plastic surgery" — in which a procedure is revised or reversed — makes up 50% of some doctors' practices. Women who drop thousands on a nose job often find they don't like the results and go in search of more surgery. The name this phenomenon is going by? Undo-plasty. We're not talking incredibly shrinking cartilage, à la Michael Jackson — think Courtney Love, who wrote she wanted to go back to "the mouth God gave me." Just something for dudes to keep in mind, since pectoral implant surgery has had a 99% increase. That's right, dudes are getting man boobs in record numbers.

Unfortunately, the Archives of Surgery is reporting that infection at the site of incision happens to one in 20 patients — male or female — who undergo breast surgery, so guys enjoying their new tits had better watch out because infection leads to higher hospital costs. As for undo-plasty, costs vary but patients seem to gain a sense of contentment afterward. The Tribune interviewed 40-year-old Deborah Dunn, who got a nose job to fix a bump from a childhood injury. Post-procedure, "Every time I saw myself, I wanted to punch myself in the nose to make it all go away," she says. Doctors have reconstructed her nose to be more like the old one and Dunn admits, "I feel like I have myself back." But seriously, there is no ⌘-Z in life: Isn't the ultimate undo-plasty not to go under the knife in the first place?

After Plastic Surgeries, More Do An About-Face [Chicago Tribune]
Pectoral Implants Gaining Popularity [UPI]
Breast Surgery-Infection Rate Is 5.3% [Wall Street Journal]

London's Underground subway system has banned...

Slut Machine — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:45:00 EST

London's Underground subway system has banned an ad campaign because of its "potential to offend public decency." The ad is for an online bingo business, and it shows a couch-potato-type dude attempting to breastfeed a baby, with copy reading "Where have all the women gone?" Other than the fact that the dude in the ad looks a little bit like drag king performer Murray Hill, thus making his breasts potentially more feminine, it's sort of baffling why this was found too offensive for the Tube. [Babble]

Cures For Men With Bosoms

Moe — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:58:33 EDT

Did we remind the plastic surgery industry today how fucking thankful we are for its existence? Not only has it given the ludicrously intelligent, outrageously well-educated individuals who actually passed surgery school a way to pay back their student loans free from the bureaucratic hassles of the HMOs, but there is almost no emerging self-esteem threat it cannot fix. Case in point: Man boobs. They're an epidemic! But according to the 'Thursday Styles' section of the New York Times, as long as you are affluent, that's okay!

"My nephew wouldn't take his shirt off in public," Dr. Kotler said. "He wouldn't go to the beach, which in California is a pretty big deal."In the past, doctors said, 'Oh, he'll grow out of it.' He decided not to grow out of it, but to have the procedure... Here was the shyest, most introverted kid you could ever meet," he said. "And now, well, he's the polar opposite of the shy kid. Guess what he does now? He's a Hollywood agent."

Oh my god! On behalf of the writers over at Entourage, we'd like to thank you Dr. Kotler! Because the day a man can live a life untormented by his peers upon the revelation that he had a breast reduction as a young fat kid is, sadly, fast approaching (thanks, Late Capitalism!) but that day is NOT YET HERE. In the meantime, however, it could make a funny show!

A Sense Of Anxiety A Shirt Won't Cover [NY Times]
Related: Fight Club [Amazon]
Obese Teens Face Slim Risks From Surgery [ABCNews]