Do boys coming of age have body issues as girls do?

Much is made of how girls when they are coming of age they have all these body image issues.
Do boys growing up have body image problems?
What are they like? How is it different?
Do You have body issues as a girl or as a boy?
What about your own kids?
Please specify what image problems there were or are.

Yes, but it's completely different. 19
They do not have body issies. 2
Yes. 21
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  • DIO

    There's height, voice change, hair growing (including beard), sexual urges more important than girls, higher level of aggressivity, hair loss, muscle development.
    There's probably other smaller things that I may forget.

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    • If that was true you wouldn't have so many girls pregnant.

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      • DIO

        What do you mean?

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    only girls git the press

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  • Tealights

    Yeah; from what I observed, it's:

    1. Body Hair.
    2. Height.
    3. Dick size.

    When I was a child, prepubescent boys at the time obsessed about getting hair like their fathers who have big beards, hairy arms, etc. When I was a teenager, I would hear boys hoping they would get taller or hope their dick was large enough to satisfy a woman; some loose the interest in growing body hair at this point because nowadays most guys shave. Then once they hit adulthood, it's all about dick size; some may still stress over height if they're like 5'6" or lower and done growing (some accept this), but dick size is like the main shit I've seen guys worry about.

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    • I have heard that. Single mothers get questions like that from boys when they get about 15, about whether their dicks are an ok size.

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    • d0esnormalmatter

      Yeah dick size is hard not to think about. One good thing to add onto that list would be build. Lotta guys think their too skinny or frail.

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      • Tealights

        Yes! I was thinking that as well!!!! But I wasn't sure if I should add 4. Muscle, since I've noticed a lot of guys loose interest in building their body once they start working and gaining weight; after a while it just becomes a juggle to avoid being too fat that they can't have sex or attract a woman. Yet body hair, height, and dick size are ever present.

        I have many examples from friends, but the best is my boyfriend who was a football player in his youth. He is already tall, so height isn't an issue to him, he's strong even though he's cuddly now, yet he's a tiny bit insecure about his beard (which I don't understand because he looks fine). The friends are a mixture of height and beard worry, but most are chubby. lol

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        • d0esnormalmatter

          Yeah facial hair is another one maybe. But yeah muscle is a huge deal for a lot of guys. Most of them think it will help them get girls better than it actually does tho.

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          • Tealights

            You're probably right since most of my friends are in long-term relationships, so it might be something single men find more important.

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            • d0esnormalmatter

              Yeah thats true. There's actually been a lot of studies in men showing that getting married lowers amount of exercise and causes fat gain. It's an attraction thing, its helps you pick up women but it only really matters at the beginning so committed guys tend to slack.

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  • d0esnormalmatter

    Are you saying gender is binary? Gtfo!

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    • leggs91200

      No DNM, it isn't really. Your dreams of dating a sexy transgender lady with big tits and a huge cock are not being ruined.

      She is out there waiting to dominate you and do CBT while you are suspended from the ceiling.

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      • d0esnormalmatter

        CBT? I would rather date a real man than a trans man! At least he's honest! I found some VERY suspicious girls on tinder. Short hair, masculine looking face and no pics from the side or of the waist down. Hmmmm.

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        • leggs91200

          CBT - cock/ball torture.

          I will say that typically a TG woman will try her best to appear as a woman.
          Some of the suspicious looking women on dating sites with short hair and such - usually just hardcore dykes.

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          • megadriver

            Who the hell gets any pleasure from cock, or ball pain. That shit is terrible. A man's cock needs to be loved and caressed by a woman, not tortured.

            +1 on the muscular dykes that try to act like men. Those are pathetic, should you meet one in real life XD

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            • leggs91200

              Megadriver my man, I am in the LGBT myself, I have met at least a few. My lesbian room mate has dated a couple.

              About CBT - it is part of the BDSM scene. I do not know how popular it is but it does exist.

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          • d0esnormalmatter

            Spanking...yes!
            Whip... yes!
            Ticking while tied up...yes!
            Pain from holding in pee...yes!
            Pain from tight ropes...yes!
            Muscle cramps from arms behind back...yes!
            Butt plug a size too big crammed in my ass...yes!
            Jaw soreness and dry throat from a ball gag...yes!
            Nose smashed by girls ass on my face...yes!
            Super tight diapers smashing erection...yes!
            Pain from peeing with boner in a woman...yes!

            JUST NOT MY DICK OR BALLS!!!!!

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            • leggs91200

              I am guessing you are more on the submissive side?

              No CBT is for you then is what is called a "hard limit".

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  • palehorse

    Yes, and as a society we don't do nearly enough to address it. Teen girls with body image issues are constantly given positive reinforcement. Teen boys are all too frequently laughed at instead.

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  • bigbudchonga

    Yes, but not as severe. Girls tend to be less shallow than guys. I've known fat fuckers with good game who pull hot girls, and good looking guys who don't pull them.

    I think unless you were a really low confidence guy, or seriously ugly/ disfigured then you kind of just get on with it, and don't let it take over your life.

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    • CureforAspergers

      Usually pretty girls who date ugly guys are cheaters or have low self esteem. I know one young woman who dated a Muslim who was wayyyy uglier than her. He ended up beating and threatening her family over the phone for 3 years.

      Possible answer: She supports Bernie Sanders. It’s the only explanation why a white girl could stoop to such a low level. Her hatred of white men is likely a factor as well.

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      • momgetthecamera

        they don't really hate their men. It's just edgy. I barely think people do it for attraction, but for rebellion. They are saying "look dad" or "look society", "I'm defying you!" Just as right wingers have their version of 'normie' so do lefties. Their version is their warped idea of a creamy faced, ignorant and naive type of people, white people, who have been portrayed as an object, an 'other' who live in a bubble, as the image has been so craftily painted with the constant bombardment of propaganda. Being "white" isn't seen as authentic. But at the end of the day, I know most white women like their own men, without even having to think about it.

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  • Sad18yo

    As a boy coming of age as we speak I can confirm we do indeed have a whole lotta body image issues.

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    • Sad18yo

      As for me, personally:

      I always feel either too fat or too skinny (my weight fluctuates)
      I don’t like the shape of my body
      We’re expected to be athletic and muscular and it ain’t easy
      My voice seems to “girly”
      My face looks funny and I have a hideous overbite
      Hair... EvErYwHeRe
      Acne is a bitch
      No matter how tall you are you don’t feel tall enough
      And don’t forget your junk. It’s wayyyyyyyy too small until the dreaded, awful, horrible 10:00 boner and suddenly you feel like you’re smuggling a baseball bat in your shorts

      And the list goes on....

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  • redspectre

    None likes random boners...

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  • megadriver

    Yeah, probably even more than girls when they are kids and teenagers. Cause with men the judgement is much harsher. You gotta have a nice physique and not look scrawny, or feminine. But you don't wanna be fat either.
    At school, I was the shy fat kid that spent most of his day drawing cars and airplanes and I had my fair share of fat jokes.
    I ignored most of them, occasionally lashing out at the kids that said them, but there were other kids that were much more sensitive.
    The same was applied to the scrawny, skinny boys. They got labeled as girls, fags, etc...
    Good childhood friend of mine used to cry, cause they called him girly. He was skinny, broke his arm in 2 places playing dodge ball, emotional and had longer, very curly hair.
    The school years were not kind to him.

    You wanna be tall. Of course you wanna be tall... You wanna be among the tallest kids when you stand in line in PE. You wanna tower over all the dwarves with your giantness. You want girls to look up when they talk to you. You don't want to be a short boy. I was taller than average, but out of the 14 boys we had in class, 6 were taller than me and 2 girls.

    Now that I'm 1.85m, aged 26, I don't want to be taller and have to buy the more expensive clothes from the "super tall guy racks"

    Gym bods... You gotta have one in high school, if you wanna be a cool kid and get the big league ladies. Going to the gym, pushing yourself hard in PE, football, swimming, diet plan... So much work for nothing. Cause after high school, you just need a wad of cash and a slightly douchebag attitude and the same big league ladies will flock.
    I only had a 6-pack and very defined muscles in 12th grade and a year after that, I gained weight and lost the 6-pack, cause I was in university and didn't have time to do sports 4 hours a day. I limited my working out to 30 minutes a day at home. Push ups, squats, lifting dumbbells... basic exercise.

    Most girls have it much easier here. All they have to do is not eat like pigs and they'll look fantastic. No training required, no nothing. Slip on something sexy, a bit of lip gloss, eye liner and she's dynamite, even if she has small boobs. Guys like me go crazy for skinny girls with small boobs.
    I have yet to see my girlfriend do actual sports stuff. The closest thing she does to sport is Zumba once every 2 weeks (Zumba being a thing where girls slightly shake it to spanishy music and gossip).
    I still work out in the morning, before I shower and go to work, cause if I don't I'll get fatter.

    Here comes the next problem: showing emotion. Regardless if positive, or negative.
    Men don't show emotions, unless it's anger, or cheer at a football game. If you're hurt, or in a bad place and you show emotion - you'll be labeled a fag. If you're very happy about something - again - gay.

    The emotional sweet spot and mannerisms for a Bulgarian man aged 16-22 is a thuggish/ bro/ semi-douchebag mix.

    Then we got facial hair. Everyone wants to have nice, even facial hair, even more so in the past couple of years, where the mountain man look is all the rage.

    The only thing I don't like about my body and I wish I had was better facial hair. My dad looks badass with a beard, even more so cause he was in the navy.
    But if I let my facial hair grow out, I look like some teenage no lifer that plays dungeons and dragons all day.

    I got the same strong, dense, curly black hair as him, but no badass facial hair.

    And finally, I gotta mention dick size. Every boy goes through a phase, where they worry if their dick is gonna be big enough to satisfy women, is it thick enough, is it straight enough and all that stuff.
    I've had this too, but after I had sex for the first time, I realized I was big enough and never gave it another thought. The girl liked it and I've never had a woman complain about my size, so it's all was good.

    But the good news is as you pass the teenager years and get older, nobody is gonna make fun of you cause you're scrawny looking, or have a few kilos more than you should. Nobody cares if you have a gym bod, or not. It's definitely a plus, but not a must. I'm 1.85m and 100kg and don't have a six pack, just slightly bigger biceps and leg muscles and I've had no trouble making friends, or picking up girls.

    After the age of 18, it gets much easier for guys, but starts getting tougher for girls.

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  • Dot123

    yes. mostly with height and dick size. maybe voice like if its not deeper or manly, etc.

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