Kenneth in the (602), circa 1988
While going through a cache of old photos last night I was struck at how unsightly my youthful body was, yet I have no recollection of being self-conscious about it at all. Granted, I wasn't overweight -- feeling shitty about yourself for being fat has long been in style. And America's ideal male body has certainly changed a lot in the last 25 years -- a recent survey of 1,307 teenage boys who lived in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area found that a whopping 90 percent of them said they exercised to "add muscle." But gyms and muscleheads at school have been around forever -- I was in ninth grade during Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" craze! -- yet lifting weights was never something I contemplated until at least a good decade later. (This black-and-white
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