Ben Cohen strips for gay magazine ‘Attitude’

British Rugby Union player strips down for Attitude UK — a gay men’s magazine in the UK — and talks about on hanging with the gays, his own body image, and more…

On hanging with the gays:
“I enjoy being round gay people. I find I get on better with them than straight people.”
“I think if a footballer came out as gay, he would be unbelievably wealthy and unbelievably famous, simply because he came out. I think a trend would follow. I think a lot of people in the closet would come out and support it.”

On his own body image:
“Mate, seriously, I don’t think I’ve got a good body. ANd that’s not cause I want you to say I have. I don’t look in the mirror and go: ‘F***ing hell Benny, good body.’ I look at it and go, actually, I need to lose some more weight, I need to do some more work and I’ll go into the gym and I’ll try, I don’t really think I have a good body. If people do than fair enough. I think it’s my genetic make-up. I don’t really have much of a say in it.”

On creating a ‘bear’ renaissance:
I didn’t know it actually went that deep. I’m flattered with that, if I’m kick-starting a trend. It’s nice to know, and nice to be wanted that way.”

He’s 30.