Gynecomastia’s Decisive Moments
In photography, the “decisive moment” is the split second in which a scene, expression or some action can be captured as art.
But in gynecomastia, the decisive moment can be the last straw that drives a teen or young man to make the decision to have male breast reduction surgery on his fleshy, female-like chest.
The excellent website, Gynecomastia.org has a forum in which males afflicted with “man boobs” recall their worst gynecomastia moments.
Not surprisingly, many deal with the lads’ experience with girls and women:
- A beautiful Russian woman and co-worker poked a guy in the chest and declared with a giggle to all present in a crowded bar : “You’ve got boobies!” Said the guy: “Any pre-surgery doubts I had went away in that second.”
- One wrote his gyno cost him the love of his life.
- Another was the victim of a sick practical joke. His buddies got together and arranged a blind date with a very attractive nurse…who was flat as a board. Neither the victim nor the nurse appreciated the stunt.
- In bed, a “hot girl” bluntly told her new boyfriend: “find a way to get rid of them boobs…” The same guy figures his gynecomastia is why he was still single at 36. (But he had gynecomastia surgery in 2008 and declared he now feels “new born.”)
- Wrote yet another: “In the seventh grade cafeteria, I was holding a tray of food in the cafeteria and a girl asked me what size cup I had. She was trying to pinch my breasts while I was trying not spill everything on the tray.”
Other guys can be no less cruel:
- ”At a union meeting, a guy who had been drinking grabbed my breast and yelled out: ‘Look at the tits on this guy!’ I wanted to crawl under a rock and die.”
- ”When I was 11, my friends called me ‘Breasts.’ Then in high school, I was known as ‘Chesty.’ I wanted to go home and cry each time; I know it has affected my self-esteem and confidence my whole life.”
- ”I had the nickname ‘Boobula’ in high school.”
- ”A group of friends in high school wrote in huge letters on my school notebook, ‘Logan Has Boobs!’ and that started me thinking about my gyno every single day. I’m 19 now, a college sophomore and am sending pictures of my chest to plastic surgeons for help.”