A nice article I picked up from Internet. It would also be nice to get the perspective of women on this topic. Previous studies have shown that media images of female models have a negative impact on how woman view their own bodies. But now, a new study has Sexy female models give men the body-blues too (Getty Images)found that this same effect holds true when men view female models. For the study, lead author Jennifer Aubrey at the University of Missouri measured male exposure to ‘lad’ magazines, such as Maxim, FHM and Stuff, which she observes contains two main messages: the visual, which mostly contain sexually suggestive images of women; and textual, which contain articles that speak in a bawdy, male voice about topics including fashion, sex, technology and pop culture. Aubrey also measured male body self-consciousness and appearance anxiety. Participants were asked questions such as “During the day, I think about how I look,” and then asked the same questions a year later. “We fou...