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Back in the day there was "bear" and there was "chub" and they weren't the same thing. Now it seems "bear" is the polite term for "chub". Well, we love real, solid, hairy men (the old definion of bear), but we have trouble "glorifying" obsesity. Obesity rates were pretty stable in the US prior to 1980. At that time ~50% of men were overweight including ~10% who were clinically obese. Very few men were "extremely obese". Now nearly 80% of American men are overweight including ~35% who are obese plus another 5% who are extremely obese.(See Wikipedia for more details). Rates of obesity in the gay community were a bit slower to rise because during the AIDS pandemic gay men wanted to look healthy (even if they weren't). Doctors were prescribing anabolic steroids to add lean mass because it helped if the guy got sick. It was the era of the "muscle queen" – for very good reasons. But the last few years the gay community has embraced obesity at an alarming rate. Obesity is now more deadly for our community than HIV. We feel the gay community should take obesity as seriously as it takes HIV. We're all about realistic, "body positive" role models, but they have to be healthy role models. "A few pounds extra"? No problem. But we believe it harms our community to tell someone who desperately needs to lose weight, that they're fine just the way they are. No, they need to lose weight and they need to do it as soon as possible – it only gets harder the longer you wait and permanent damage to your body can happn in the meantime. What we provide are positive, healthy role models of what an average guy can achive. And they're damn sexy!