“The new heterosexual male”
Maybe it’s just me, but younger men seem to actually LOOK less masculine these days. Many of them look so feminine they could almost pass for girls. I commented on this to my husband, and he agreed.
I don’t know if it’s hormones in the food, or what....but if you look at old photos of young men, they didn’t have this androgynous, nearly feminine appearance.
It’s become commonplace to look at pictures of the WWII generation when they were in their early twenties and say, “They look like they’re already thirty!”
Young people in those days ate less, grew up fast & took on responsibilities early in life. It showed.
I don’t know if it’s hormones in the food, or what....but if you look at old photos of young men, they didn’t have this androgynous, nearly feminine appearance.
///
Oral Contraceptives In Your Water Supply
by Ray Lovegrove
Every day all over the world, millions of women take the oral contraceptive pill. The substances in the pill may be altered a little by the body but for the main part, pass through the bloodstream and eventually into the urine. Urine ends up in water supplies and eventually back in the drinking water - so what has happened to those hormones during this process? Well, much of the hormonal material is still present but very diluted - so diluted in fact, that it is hard to say what effects it is having. Hormone replacement therapy employs similar hormones and these also get into the water supply. This issue is beginning to cause concern for a number of reasons.
http://www.insiderreports.com/storypage.asp?StoryID=20009617
As early as 2002, the UK Environment Agency warned that fish stocks in British rivers were showing signs of gender ambiguity as a result of high levels of estrogen in the water. A survey of 1,500 fish at 50 river sites found more than a third of males also displayed female characteristics.
“Research by Dr Jayne Brian and Professor John Sumpter at Brunel University’s Institute for the Environment, showed estrogenic chemicals are affecting the reproduction and gender of aquatic life and warned of the affect on the reproductive ability of humans. “
It's probably due to about 1,000 Calories per day too much. It makes us a couple of inches taller than our immediate ancestors, true. But it also makes us 40-50 lbs heavier, and it ain't all muscle.
Modern boys probably have a layer of subcutaneous fat that didn't used to be there, no hard edges. Yesterday's 5'9" 150lbs. is now 6', 210. and in all too many younger fellows,a big-butted 220-230! (Not counting the weight of the tattoos.)
Civil War: Average Union Recruit: 5'8" 140lbs!
BTW, extra fat means earlier puberty!