The “young fresh meat” phenomenon in contemporary China that sets the male body as its aesthetic object reveals that representation has become essential for the perception of the male body due to the gradual loss of its transcendental qualities. The representation of the male body leads to its objectification, reducing it to the corporeality whose exchange value is marked by its sex appeal. However, the objectification of the male body has a washback effect, which renders the representation of the male body a pseudo-proposition that subverts itself.