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actsnoblemartin
07-29-2008, 11:47 AM
http://health.msn.com/mens-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100211500&GT1=31036&vv=600

Get ready to go where no woman has gone before: behind the scenes of the male body image.

Dressed only in my underwear, I'm eight years old and sitting on the pediatrician's exam table, waiting for my checkup. My mother points to the two mounds of fatty flesh between my chest and belly. She asks the doctor, "Could they be tumors?" "No," he says, "it's just fat." Since that day, my fat has absorbed more darts than the back wall of a bar.

At six feet two and 215 pounds, I'm not huge. I just carry my weight where women do—in my hips, butt and thighs. And I hate it. I hate the way clothes fit. I hate that friends say I use the "big-butt defense" in basketball.