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The gym of cartoon men

In men, body dysmorphia can be expressed as ‘bigorexia’ – the belief that your body is too weak and thin – or anorexia. Andrew McMillan explores two sides of the same coin.

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“Disability is never an individual diagnosis”

As a 35-year-old man, I am sure that my fear of getting old is not uncommon. But for me, that fear goes deeper. I have spina bifida.

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Cataloguing Audrey

Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.

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Sex work, stigma and whorephobia

Like everyone, sex workers sometimes need medical or mental health support. But shame and stigma seriously affect attitudes and access.

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  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a dumb-bell in each hand, lifts them above his head then lowers them to his waist. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A bending man in a posing pouch raises two dumb-bells from knee height to above his head, lowers them to his shoulders then bends to place them on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a dumb-bell in his right hand, lifts it above his head then lowers it to his shoulder. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a dumb-bell in each hand, lifts them above his head then lowers them to the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch holds a dumb-bell in his right hand, straightening up as he raises it from knee height to shoulder height. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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