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17 August 2006

this was on a&e last night and it gave me bad dreams.

post by: auntbunny at: 07:51 | 15 comments

Just be glad you didn't see them naked. I saw the 'home sex tape' of some pro wrestling couple online once and at first I thought i was witnessing fellatio, until the camera zoomed out and I realized it was him going down on her. Steroids are some scary shit.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 07:56

I saw bits of that (the A&E show, not the jonmc-wrestler pr0n) too! I just couldn't watch it, I found the woman a wee bit repulsive.

posted by LunaticFringe 17 August | 07:58

I saw the bodybuilder documentary when it was shown on British TV a few months ago. Gruesome.

posted by essexjan 17 August | 08:04

I suppose everybody needs a hobby and I certainly have no problem with people getting fit, but heavy duty bodybuilders of either gender are kind of grotesque. And all those damned veins, you can take their pulse from across the room.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 08:06

also, this book, if you can find it, is a terrific story of the underside of the bodybuilding phenomenon.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 08:07

I too saw that while flipping the channels, I remember thinking those women are grosser than the men that do that to their bodies.

*shudders*

posted by getoffmylawn 17 August | 08:39

I find it disturbing that I have a good idea what the jonmc-wrestler pr0n is. I blame Dawn and Drew. Honestly.

posted by seanyboy 17 August | 08:43

and, ladies, when viewing male bodybuilders, remember the old adage: built like a house, hung like a mouse.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 08:44

Just be glad you didn't see them naked...

jonmc- I am indeed grateful to have missed that... it would be like you can't look but you can't look away.

It seemed all night I was harassed by a big freaky blonde guy as I was trying to move out of a large rundown house with holes in the floor, and I was dropping things and trying to pick them back up the whole time.

posted by auntbunny 17 August | 08:50

Fit = sexy
Built = scary

posted by mike9322 17 August | 08:57

and, ladies, when viewing male bodybuilders, remember the old adage: built like a house, hung like a mouse.

There was a documentary on UK tv the other night about Greg Valentino, the man with the biggest biceps in the world, which exploded.

They interviewed Steve Michalik, who in the 70s had been a Mr America. He'd started taking steroids and had had terrible health problems (heart attacks, strokes, etc) and he admitted that his testicles are now the size of peanuts.

posted by essexjan 17 August | 09:05

I just got pharmacy spam from Safariing A. Muscles.

posted by danostuporstar 17 August | 09:26

when the bod and pecs are that lean the boobs are always fake, btw. if you didn't guess.

posted by shane 17 August | 09:29

Jon, that book is all I coud think of while reading that blurb. Great book. Scary.

posted by Specklet 17 August | 10:49

It's just another body-mod, albeit relatively radical (not just superficial!). Setting aside the health problems, I decided a while ago to refrain from being judgmental about any and all body-mods, even those deemed "unhealthy". (I scare-quote "unhealthy" not to dispute that steroids and other things are unhealthy, but to call into question the idealized pure "health" that contemporary wealthy western culture—especially American culture—so frantically strives for.)

posted by kmellis 17 August | 12:49

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