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O<\/span>n a January morning earlier this year, 25-year-old Prakash called his friend in the United States to inform him of the passing of two close companions. \u201cRukhsana aur Altaf ab nahi rahe,\u201d he said. It took his friend, who had just woken up from deep sleep, a few minutes to process the information. When he realised who the people in question were, he let out a few choice expletives at Prakash, and promptly went back to sleep. Rukhsana and Altaf were the names of Prakash\u2019s left and right breasts. Now they are no more.\n\n\u201cThey were a couple because they made love to each other at night,\u201d Prakash explains to me with a grin. Skinny, small-framed, Prakash is still recovering from his gynaecomastia surgery when we meet. \u201cThey were a part of my life. They even looked nice on some days, because they balanced out my belly,\u201d he says with a twinge of nostalgia. When Rukhsana and Altaf were around, Prakash hated their intrusive presence, but now that they\u2019re gone, he seems to almost miss them.\n\nGynaecomastia, or man-boobs as it’s\u00a0commonly called, is the biggest body image concern among men after hair loss. Google search auto-completes the query \u201cHow to get rid of\u2026\u201d with \u201cman breasts\u201d, throwing up 31,20,000 results with everyone from Men’s Health to GQ weighing in with suggestions on ditching drink, losing fat, and \u201cbecoming one with the bench\u201d. Prakash did all that and even turned to mixed martial arts three years ago to cut down on the flab. \u201cI was trying really hard, eating all these dirtily masculine foods,\u201d he said. \u201cMy ab muscles were getting defined, all my body fat was gone, but still I had these tits!\u201d\n\nPrakash grew up in Patna, running on the banks of the Ganga and playing every adolescent sport from kabbadi to badminton. Even with a family history of obesity and gynaecomastia, he was never conscious of his health or appearance. In class, there was once a competition to compare who had the biggest breasts among all the fat kids. Prakash stood first. But Bihar was a different world. \u201cPeople could say something like, \u2018You have really nice tits,\u2019 just the way they would tell someone else that he had a small dick,\u201d said Prakash. \u201cWe were like street kids.\u201d The atmosphere was comfortable, no one felt singled out.\n\nThat changed dramatically when he moved to a Bengaluru art college. There, surrounded by good-looking people, Prakash was first relatively unaffected about his weight or his breasts. But the level of his body consciousness \u2013 aesthetic as well as health-wise \u2013 increased. Then, when Prakash started navigating the waters of college dating, he found it a little embarrassing to take off his shirt in front of a girl. \u201cThis one time a girl told me I could pass off as a she-male,\u201d says Prakash. Another potential partner had a problem because she was less endowed than him. \u201cAnd if you forgot for a moment that I was a man, my tits did look better than hers,\u201d he says, cheekily.\n<\/p>

Male cosmetic surgery was an alien concept for Prakash and millions of other guys like him, possibly because most conversation around body consciousness is focused around the female form.<\/blockquote>\nIronically, it wasn\u2019t the obstacle course of his sex life, so much as his family that made him seriously consider surgery. Even though nearly everyone on the maternal side of his family had man boobs, it didn\u2019t stop his uncle from calling attention to them. \u201cHe once said during a family gathering, \u2018Ye kya latak raha hai? Isko theek karo, exercise karo.\u2019”\u00a0Prakash realised it wasn\u2019t about health or fitness. His family was thinking of his marriage and the dowry he might fetch.\n\nMale cosmetic surgery was an alien concept for Prakash and millions of other guys like him, possibly because most conversation around body consciousness is focused around the female form. It conjures images of waif-like women, doubling over a commode, barfing their guts out. Any<\/a> exposition<\/a> on the subject<\/a> is countered by a dozen other shrieky listicles featuring the words \u201cplastic surgery\u201d and \u201cgone wrong\u201d. Save for Michael Jackson, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a male celebrity in such a compilation.\n\nFinally, after thinking about the decision sporadically for four years, aided by heavy reading, Prakash decided to take the plunge. The final leap had a lot do with the fact that he could afford to shell out the \u20b990,000 the surgery costs at a private facility. A government hospital would have been a lot cheaper, but then a doctor friend who worked in one, told him about a patient whose nipple went missing during the procedure. Private it was going to be.\n\nHis parents weren\u2019t exactly ecstatic about the decision. Not only were conversations about the body taboo topics for dinner-table conversations, there was trepidation about electing for an invasive surgery. Prakash didn\u2019t care. He went alone for the surgery. Pumped with anaesthesia, Prakash slept soundly, as the surgeon aspirated the fat through inserted tubes, and deflated Rukhsana and Altaf forever.\n\nNow, more than six weeks after his surgery, Prakash is thrilled with his transformation. He is still waiting to try his new chest out with the ladies and he’s aware that things are going to become easier from now on, but he\u2019s not fully on board with the idea of finding love just because he has a “better” body. Currently he’s too busy exulting in a world without tits that gives him the liberty to wear what he wants. \u201cI’m just relieved I don\u2019t have to play mind games with myself anymore,\u201d he says.\u00a0 Love and sex are all very good, but for Prakash, a nicely fitted tee is infinitely better.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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