After the therapist's speculation, Christian proceeds to have sex with numerous women, including Shields, but he looks to enjoy it about as much as Lance Bass would. To prove he's straight, Christian then has his metrosexual apartment butched up. This means having greasy pizza boxes, empty beer bottles, and dirty underwear strewn all over the place.

Now Julian McMahon is on the cover of The Advocate sporting a "come hither" (if you get my drift) look while the headline promises that Nip/Tuck "gets dirty" and Julian's storyline will be his gayest yet. Is that the case? Only time will tell, but if something more doesn't happen with Christian then the show will be even more guilty than Rescue Me of false advertising. At least Probie never wound up on the cover of The Advocate.

AT LONG, LONG LAST MEN HAVE FINALLY ACHIEVED FULL EQUALITY
The number of men suffering from body image issues has been steadily rising for years now and it's not rocket science figuring out why. Ever since Calvin Klein put his first underwear clad model up on a billboard in Times Square, men have been increasingly valued for their six packs along with their six figure salary. Hollywood has reflected this in shows like Nip/Tuck where the men are as vain as the women and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency which shows male skin at every opportunity while treating men like meat, much as women have endured for years.

This isn't exactly a fresh observation, but it seems to me the trend is picking up steam at an alarming rate. Today brings us the opening of The Covenant which has made sure potential viewers know it's about impossibly buff high school boys who, judging from the ads, spend as much time as possible in nothing but swimsuits. Think Desperate Housewives' Jesse Metcalfe times five. The New York Times recently described two of the football players on MTV's reality drama, Two a Days as achingly beautiful. And Nip/Tuck has scored unbelievable amounts of publicity thanks to pictures of Mario Lopez's bare derriere having been somehow "mysteriously" leaked online.

Indeed, it seems the internet is only accelerating the trend, making it more and more acceptable to openly ogle beefcake. Sites like Oh La La Paris specialize in cataloguing hot men from around the world. And other sites like Towelroad, Queerty, and Pink is the New Blog frequently post pics of hot guys, both famous and not, in various states of undress. This summer shirtless photos of Jake Gyllenhaal, Mathew McConnaughey and Lance Armstrong (often all three together) were as prevalent as IPODs on a college campus. I'm not complaining exactly-I checked out Mario's pictures after all-but I'm not sure it's necessarily a good thing, especially for impressionable young men who increasingly post videos of themselves shirtless on Youtube.com.

Just last week I read another article documenting how boys are slipping further behind girls in school and the gap between the number of women attending college versus men continues to grow. One has to wonder if boys aren't spending too much time worrying about getting ripped and applying another squirt of Axe Body Wash. Oh, well. Maybe tomorrow's generation of young men won't have college diplomas, but there will be plenty of websites where they can show off their perfect physiques.

GREAT CHOICE! BUT BROKEBACK STILL GOT ROBBED
Next year's Academy Awards aren't likely to have any gay best picture nominees, but the show might be pretty queer nonetheless as Ellen Degeneres will be following in Jon Stewart's footsteps as host. It probably has nothing to do with last year's Oscar debacle, but I am at least a little suspicious. Don't get me wrong--Ellen is a great choice and is eminently qualified having done fantastic work on the Emmy's. The fact is it's probably not homophobia for which the Academy is trying to atone, but rather sexism. After all, the only other woman to host the Oscars on her own is Whoopi Goldberg (numerous women have co-hosted). Well, whatever the reason it's a welcome change. Go get'em, Ellen!

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