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    Question Are FBBs a Male Obsession?

    I have two novels about women's bodybuilding: Body, by Harry Crews (1990); & Chemical Pink, by Katie Arnoldi (2001). Both depict an obsessive man who attempts to dominate a woman by turning her into his own twisted version of female muscularity. Granted; these are novels. But it's interesting that they both suggest that female muscularity is a male obsession, rather than a female one. Any responses to this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by hifrommike65 View Post
    I have two novels about women's bodybuilding: Body, by Harry Crews (1990); & Chemical Pink, by Katie Arnoldi (2001). Both depict an obsessive man who attempts to dominate a woman by turning her into his own twisted version of female muscularity. Granted; these are novels. But it's interesting that they both suggest that female muscularity is a male obsession, rather than a female one. Any responses to this?
    And this is definitely written by someone who has no clue the type of obsession one has too have too achieve such a physique and if it was not the females obsesion its doubtful she would reach that level of muscularity

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    Arnoldi had experience as a competitive bodybuilder. Crews cited friends in the bodybuilding world but said his book was not meant to depict the reality of bodybuilding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gymjunkie38 View Post
    And this is definitely written by someone who has no clue the type of obsession one has too have too achieve such a physique and if it was not the females obsesion its doubtful she would reach that level of muscularity

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    Women don't go to extremes to attract men (or other women or whatever new gender now exists)?

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    http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts...arbie-4-124023

    Have you heard of the human Barbie doll? It's possible she is doing it to attract attention generally, not to attract men's attention. & many women dress to impress other women.

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    Maybe they are doing it for the same reasons we do it .

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    Some guys like to get their girlfriends on gear, its pretty common.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Beat View Post
    Some guys like to get their girlfriends on gear, its pretty common.
    They fuck like rabbits on the shit, lose fat and get as jacked as they try to (depending on the amount of lifting they do). We should all put it in our wive's Corn Flakes, per se.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Pietaro View Post
    They fuck like rabbits on the shit, lose fat and get as jacked as they try to (depending on the amount of lifting they do). We should all put it in our wive's Corn Flakes, per se.
    Yeah no

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    By "obsession," I mean an interest that gets to the point of harming the person interested, & possibly others. I am not talking about intense & continuing interests that harm no one. The jury is also out on what "harm" can mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaHammock View Post
    Yeah no
    lololol

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    My wife is on gear but she competes in figure and Is as if not more obsessed than me . I wouldn't want it any other way either because she is my training partner and this is a niche lifestyle and really hard too include an outsider they don't understand having someone on the same page that pushes me too reach my goals is a god send

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gymjunkie38 View Post
    My wife is on gear but she competes in figure and Is as if not more obsessed than me . I wouldn't want it any other way either because she is my training partner and this is a niche lifestyle and really hard too include an outsider they don't understand having someone on the same page that pushes me too reach my goals is a god send

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    If you don't mind my asking, did you meet your wife in the fitness industry area or outside it?

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    Outside of it . been together for years we both trained before but became serious together .

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    Why are the words "obsession" & "bodybuilding" so often found together in a sentence? I'm not surprised when I see them together from someone outside the BB world, but I also see them together when someone is inside it.
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