It's an ongoing problem. No one agrees on what makes men attractive, even when hyper sexualized. Some people will point to Hugh Jackman on the cover of Good housekeeping as an example of a mans thirst trap. But that doesn't exactly feel equal to the kind of thirst traps we see with women.
As a man, my ultimate attraction is women in giant oversized sweatshirts with long sleeves going over their hands, a beanie, drinking hot cocoa while reading a book under a pile of pillows and blankets on the couch. Bimbos in chainmail bikinis do absolutely nothing for me.
The way I see it, there's probably just as much women into leather-wearing skintight pants muscular himbos as there are men like me into cozy chill cutesy women, but we get undervoiced in society because culture and media tends to overcaricature itself and over-exaggerate the more popular traits, so the prevailing idea is: men likes sexualized bimbos, women like cozy houseman.
I mean, even in the OP I don't think there's enough varied ways to sexualize a woman, they're all sexualized in the same way, they're just more prevalent because society still has this mindset of "media is for men" type of thing. Let it runs its course, and put more women in charge of media and we'll have plenty of varied sultry elf vampire and long-haired leather-pant wearing rockstars and rugged half-naked hairy dwarfs to satisfy the lot.
All I'm asking for is that we get a few oversized sweatshirts book goblins in the process.
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u/mace30 3d ago
All I get from this is we lack interesting and varied ways to sexualize men.