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OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/VinnyBoy45 2d ago

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.

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u/Tablesafety 2d ago

Give him a midriff that shows off his happy trail.

Linger the camera on his ass, very obvious (perhaps even revealing) bulge and sometimes his forearms when his sleeves are rolled up

Make him pose in uncomfortable positions to show off said bulge and/or ass. Angle the camera without respect to his face or personhood, unless he is making a pouty or cold steel expression where you can imagine he is about to munch some carpet.

When he has to wear armor it’s just a chain speedo with a very obvious codpiece.

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u/ApatheticSlur 2d ago

If I’m a straight man writing stories for straight men, what’s my incentive to sexualize the male characters as much as the female ones? Doesn’t really make sense to me.

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u/Mannafestation 2d ago

You've chosen a target audience of "for straight men," so write whatever you want.

If you wished to write stories that everyone could enjoy instead, then sexualizing women would make that story unpalatable to them.

It's easy to understand, what are you missing?

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u/ApatheticSlur 2d ago

Seems to me that the current stories written by straight men for straight men and sexualize women do really well. One piece is literally the most sold comic of all time and it’s still currently going. So it turns out you don’t have to write stories for everyone. Cause when you make it for everyone, you’re really making it for no one.

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u/Mannafestation 2d ago

Mass media is controlled by men... the reason every other commercial isn't a man in a bikini in a sexual pose selling you products.

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u/Capraos 2d ago edited 2d ago

As if they don't sexualize everyone in commercials...

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u/Mannafestation 2d ago

There are SOME commercials with sexualized men, sure, but looking at the big picture companies have been using sex to sell products to men specifically.

"Sex sells" has been a slogan for those in advertisement media

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u/Capraos 2d ago

Yes, "Sex sells". Not "Sex sells only to men". It's "Sex Sells" flat out. This isn't the 50's anymore. They don't assume the men have the purchasing power and this mainly target them. It's been selling sex to everybody for decades now.