Body Appearance In The Adonis Complex

In The Adonis Complex by Harrison Pope, Katharine Phillips, and Roberto Olivardia this article goes in-depth about what it is like for males who seek improvement and/or are dissatisfied with their body appearances. In the beginning of the article, the authors use evidence from a 1997 magazine called Psychology Today to prove that men tend to have abdomen, weight, muscle tone, or chest problems when it comes to their physical appearances. In fact, in the article, the authors then stated that body appearance had tripled in less than thirty years from 15 percent in 1972 to 43 percent in 1997. However, one of the most troubling topics in this article did not occur until much later; the topic of steroids and how it can affect both boys and men.