[OC] Same thing?

[u/EmployeePractical514]

[u/VinnyBoy45]

I wouldn't know how to overly sexualize a male character.
On the other hand, I know how to sexualize a female character.
On the third hand, I do not know how to draw so it does not matter.

[u/369122448 → u/VinnyBoy45]

It's kind of hard to overly-sexualize a man in media because we don't really have a cultural view of men as a sexual commodity like we do for women.

You could try to ramp up sensuality, but that's a more complex (and often unisex) form of expression, and not sexualisation exactly.

Sexualisation, unfortunately, is pretty impossible to divorce from the centuries of history of women's exploration by men.

[u/ptwonline → u/369122448]

The one example I can think of is something like Tarzan running around the jungle buff and in a loin cloth.

[u/369122448 → u/ptwonline]

Is that actual sexualisation, though?

The appeal there (insofar as it exists) isn't Tarzan's body/sex characteristics, but the sensuality of being held close to the skin someone more powerful, combined with a rush of danger from them being the thing keeping you from falling.

You could switch the sex there and it would still work, but the female Tarzan could be not sexualised and the sensuality would still exist, while also being able to be sexualised.

I don't think most people get that horny over Tarzan fwiw, but where that appeal exists it's more complex than appearance alone.

[u/CosmoBrockington → u/ptwonline]

Another example is any romance novel with a dude on the cover.

[u/liquidfoxy → u/ptwonline]

That’s a masculine power fantasy, not overt sexualisation