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The gay desire for muscle gods came out of the AIDS epidemic as a shallow means to determine who was healthy and who was not.
Please elaborate!
When AIDS allowed for opportunistic infections to occur, many PWAs (people with AIDS) would find it near impossible to keep weight on, often resigned to wasting disease and constant gut infections. This combined with AZT’s propensity to induce a lack of appetite during its height meant many people with AIDS were unable to lead a healthy life, especially in regards to muscle mass.
As a way to counteract the “image of AIDS,” gay men in the 80s and 90s (continuing into the 2000s, etc) became infatuated with body builder physique as a means to determine immediate who was sick and who wasn’t. While muscle-bound physique tends to be the preferred norm in today’s society as a whole, the role it became as the “gay image” would not be so dramatic if not for the AIDS epidemic.
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