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THE MEDIA’S PERFECT MALE BODY

As consumers of media, we get to see a lot. Images that have been filtered, photoshopped and edited. As harmless as they may appear, these images have an impact on how we view ourselves.

They set unrealistic goals that we aspire to that, in many circumstances, are unachievable. As someone who has worked in the magazine industry for many years, even the models themselves cannot achieve that photoshop perfection. All these images telling us how to look and what is attractive can sometimes cause a very negative effect. We might not even know

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