“How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.”
body dysmorphia
On Reflection
“Angelina Mazza spends a lot of time looking at her body. And yet, she explains, she’s never truly seen it.”
Body of Lies
Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.
Running Dysmorphic
On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.
What’s Happening to My Body?
Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.
Whole 60
The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
School for Girls
Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.
No Surgery Can Fix a Self-Defeating World View
Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.
The Reappearing Act
A personal essay in which, in the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.
The Reappearing Act
In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.