Well yeah but there are limits... I personally don't find this particularly attractive. You can have to much of a good thing. (Or I guess in this case I should say too little.)

The best figure for men has to be .. with a $ in front.

Re: Smaller waist.
 

Whoah! I've got to post this picture from that site:

Well... that's cool and all... corsets seem to be quite effective at reducing waist size, but are apparently of no use whatsoever for eliminating unsightly backfat.

er, I was being sarcastic about the hourglass figure thing. I don't know any men that would go for something that extreme.

I remember someone once said that Spook looks like "mr. hankie, the christmas poop" <a href="http://www.staylace.com/pinups/spook/spook-x3.jpg">here</a>. I agree.

I've seen some of this in person. It's ... very weird. The phrase I've seen used is "tightlacing".

For some reason this reminds me of Terminator.

I think the only reason this waist won was that the House of Gord hasn't put up a candidate ;p

These people are sick.
Same as someone who can stop disfiguring themselves.

I think it's a bit weird, and definitely a health risk, but I don't think it's sick. People do all sorts of more permanent things to their bodies, such as tattooing or piercing.