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willowMar 10, 2025

i have a few anecdotes i always think about from the male anorexia book i read… developing an eating disorder as a response to being gay will never not be funny to me

understanding anorexia nervosa in males, pg 100, tom wooldridge

Similarly, researchers have suggested that some males with anorexia nervosa experience pre-morbid homosexual panic (Crisp, 1967; Dally & Gomez, 1979). As their sexuality begins to take shape, males may be frightened by attraction to other males, and the elimination of sexual desire achieved through severe weight loss may protect them from confronting this fact. However, this hypothesis is not applicable to all males with anorexia nervosa; indeed, in my clinical experience some young men attempt extreme weight loss in an attempt to become more sexually attractive to other males. The relationship between male anorexia

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willowSep 15, 2024

a lot of really interesting tidbits and a lot of all-too-familiar observations, plus plenty i never knew before. it made me laugh so many times because of how frequently absurd it all is

Writing in the 1860s, Sir William Gull noted that the illness occurs in male patients. Around the same time, French physician Ernest-Charles Lasgue incisively described the family dynamics of male patients with anorexia nervosa (Andersen, 2014). These two physicians are also known for giving anorexia nervosa its cumbersome name. In fact, the disease received the name “anorexia nervosa” instead of “anorexia hysterica” because of the existence of male patients who could not be labeled “hysterical” according to medical custom at that time (Silverman, 1990). Over the next 100 years, however, males are almost unmentioned in the literature.

March 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM