Men, here’s how to perfect your love line

A six-pack is no longer the Holy Grail for men who want a buffed physique – now it’s all about the inguinal crease.

THERE was a time when size mattered. When any man with upper arm bulk of similar diameter to a woman’s waist had huge sexual allure. It was the era of Stallone and Schwarzenegger and the more unfeasibly large your forearms, the better. But arms had their moment and the male ideal has shifted, our focus diverted to the new erogenous zone of preference, the inguinal crease, aptly nicknamed the ‘love line’. On the most athletic-looking bodies the V-shaped twin ligaments that extend below a six-pack are worked to sharp definition, so overtly suggestive that they draw the eye directly from the hips to the underwear department.

It has other names — the Sex-V, the Michelangelo Muscle — but whatever you call it, the inguinal crease is currently as coveted among men as Kylie Minogue’s pert bottom is among women.