Summer 2015’s hottest men’s health trend is apparently doughnuts, pizza and beer.
But we have a feeling the dad bod craze was always a bit of a nonstarter.
The folks over at Distractify seem to feel differently, though. They reimagined some iconic underwear advertisements with dad bods replacing the hard-won gym bods.
Which do you prefer?
How about we take this to the next level?
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David Sutton
Deliver me!!!
Bob Kellerman
Hey, the samples are all size medium
Rob Ridings
Well, they would at the very least relate to their real customers, and not a fake, make-believe customer who looks like an underwear model! 😀
Spencer Berry
The main reason I’ve never bought designer underwear is that I assume based on the models that I wouldn’t look good in it, tbch.
Cagnazzo82
Photoshop the hair from the ‘dad’ bodies onto the before pictures and they would all be perfect 🙂
Jerguy Slohcin
There wouldnt be cause no agency would hire a fat guy, meaning bigger then a 32inch waist
Reverse Transcriptase
then they would look like a bunch of falcon studio queens from the 90s
SportGuy
Don’t want to see dad bod in underwear, that’s why their not underwear models.
Drew C. Smith
Well then, it would just be a Viagra advertisement.
Desert Boy
If the models had “Dad Bods” then, they would look like everyone else.
Natalie Kennedy
Women underwear models look a certain way.
Glücklich
@Cagnazzo82:
Yes!
I’ve no objections to the final photo. But given a choice, I prefer a distinct waistline and no moobs.
Dennis Crowley
They’d be hotter than hell lol
Splendido
The dadbod only makes evident how incredibly average looking these models are. Any handsome man with a charming pesonality and an average body would beat any of these guys, fit or not.
AndYouWillDeal
These photoshops look TERRIBLE
notevenwrong
@Cagnazzo82, I agree, the completely smooth depilated look on the models is not attractive. Which is why I like the Nasty Pig models, which are the exception.
Glücklich
@notevenwrong:
I hear that. Check out some of the models on Mr. S Leather’s page, too., especially the one in the vinyl motorcycle jacket. God-DAMM!
Nic Flores
Yep, I’d still hit it. lol
Sidney Davies
um no
Giancarlo85
If they did, the companies wouldn’t sell well. Companies don’t want fat guys on advertising. They just wouldn’t sell. And I am just saying this as a truth in marketing. The dad bod obsession on this site is getting old.
BigG
Much prefer the dad bods. Natural looking
BigG
@Giancarlo85:
thar are not far they are natural and average. The ripped look is not natural. most women and gay men prefer a natural dad
Avery Alvarez
@BigG: If that were true though, they would change their ads. They use the ripped look because their marker research shows that what people respond to.
Stache99
@BigG: Neither is a big belly. I’d prefer to see abs. Just doesn’t have to be ripped.
notevenwrong
@BigG, most prefer dad bods? Really? I think that’s just what they’re stuck with, for lack of the alternative.
Cagnazzo82
@BigG: Highly doubtful. You don’t see ‘dad bodies’ on the cover of romance novels, nor do you see them in ads. Also being ripped may or may not be natural depending on your diet, but being in shape is definitely natural.
I’d say it’s safer to wager the vast majority of women and gays prefer to see men who are physically in shape, or at least making an effort to take care of their bodies vs the alternative.
I’d even go so far as to say that’s certainly moreso true for gays than for women (although that’s arguable).
Now, about this whole completely hairless look vs a bit of a pelt… I think that’s highly up for debate. Personally I think Paul Freeman’s photography is the perfect depiction of what would happen if you put some hair on that slew of hairless models up above.
I think that’s the perfect compromise, but then again that’s also a personal preference 🙂
Sansacro
Not a fan of either body types rep’d here. I prefer a naturally athletic body. But, then again, it’s all personal taste and social conditioning. Ain’t that what’s great about life, folks.
SportGuy
@notevenwrong: Agreed! Nothing attractive about dad bods, just shows laziness and bad diet.
Matthew Farris
What if we stop labeling everything and just let people be who they are?
Byron Osborn
I’m all for bigger guys but underwear models should be fit
Captain Obvious
Stupidity about “dad bods” aside your face wouldn’t typically look like that if your belly was that wide.
Paco
The marker for what weight people consider to be normal keeps moving further and further into the obese territory.
Giancarlo85
@BigG: Nothing natural about flabby disgusting bellys. Dad bods… just another indication of someone who gave up years ago. The American standard is a flabby belly… but that doens’t mean it’s healthy.
charmin88
Can we STOP trying to make out of shape men a “in” thing. You don’t gotta be a gym junkie, but come on since when is not taking care of you body appearance okay. For one, when you hit 50 or over you probably will relies that since you didn’t take care of your body or attempt to stay in shape that you can’t move around as good as someone who did try to be healthy and take care of their bodies. “Dad bod” is just an excuse for lazy men. You do NOT have to look like a model,but do try to take care of your body. The Grosses photo of a dad bod was the Diesel one yikes!
Saint Law
@Giancarlo85: Bitch, you sound like someone fresh from puking their brunch in the toilet.*
*cue thirteen hundred paragraphs of splenetic anorexic denial.
Saint Law
Those aren’t dad bods. They’re just skinny people stretched.
TriForceKid1013
@Giancarlo85: Wait so you can talk like this about guys with “dad bods” but I’m a homopobic hypocrite for what I said in another thread. So I guess if I said what I said about fat gay guys that would be fine huh?
Avery Alvarez
I feel bad now, because I don’t want anybody to feel body-shamed by my comment.
Love the body your in, love the body type you find attractive in men
But advertising is what it is.
DavidIntl
I am actually quite turned off by the images – so ubiquitous on Grindr, etc. – of guys who look like they spend hours at the gym. I would much rather they spent that time reading a book, exercising their brains. But give me hairless – preferably naturally hairless – any day.
jmps
I prefer the men on the right in each case. I am so sick of pictures of men with those disgusting hard ridges over their abs that we are supposed to find sexy.
Bauhaus
Most guys I know are smack dab in the middle. It wouldn’t hurt if the models had softer, fuller bods.
Bauhaus
@Bauhaus:
More hair, too.
SpartanD
I’m going to stick with the models on the left, as an athlete myself the soft look does nothing for me.
SportGuy
@SpartanD: Same here, soft just means laziness and bad diet.
Mike
Well, that’s motivation for what I don’t want
Giancarlo85
@Saint Law: I don’t want anorexic. You need to learn how to read.
@TriForceKid1013: Oh look it’s the little moron who is dragging his shit into another thread. Being a slob and having a flabby belly is a choice. Sexual orientation is not. Getting healthy and getting some exercise is the right choice some fail to make and I will not condone behavior that is destructive to ones own health. And please don’t ever equate obesity to homosexuality again. I never chose to be gay and I’m pretty sure everyone can agree with that for their own personal perspective. Several years ago I did choose to eat right, exercise and get into better fitness. I feel fantastic. I’m sure these guys with these flabby bellys do not.
TriForceKid1013
@Giancarlo85:So there is nobody with a flabby belly who actually accepts how they look and every overweight person is unhealthy and chooses to be why?
Giancarlo85
@TriForceKid1013: You just don’t know how to read. You are being stupid again. I never said that. Keep on drawing your moronic conclusions. Can’t wait to see what other thread you come in to try to stir shit. Take your fake masculine ass somewhere else.