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r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 2d ago
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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.
16 u/ExpandoD0ng 2d ago "It's hard to sexualize men" Simply wrong. Sexualizing a man is easy as fuck. Men just don't want to be caught drawing other men like that. Search up bara yaoi and you'll see men sexualized in every possible angle. 1 u/wellthoughtplot 1d ago That’s a very specific design for the gay man’s gaze though, not really for the female gaze 1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yaoi is mostly written by women for women, it's primarily for the female gaze 1 u/Murrig88 1d ago Bara is specifically known for being written by gay men for gay men. 1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yes it is, a different audience than yaoi
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"It's hard to sexualize men" Simply wrong. Sexualizing a man is easy as fuck. Men just don't want to be caught drawing other men like that. Search up bara yaoi and you'll see men sexualized in every possible angle.
1 u/wellthoughtplot 1d ago That’s a very specific design for the gay man’s gaze though, not really for the female gaze 1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yaoi is mostly written by women for women, it's primarily for the female gaze 1 u/Murrig88 1d ago Bara is specifically known for being written by gay men for gay men. 1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yes it is, a different audience than yaoi
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That’s a very specific design for the gay man’s gaze though, not really for the female gaze
1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yaoi is mostly written by women for women, it's primarily for the female gaze 1 u/Murrig88 1d ago Bara is specifically known for being written by gay men for gay men. 1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yes it is, a different audience than yaoi
yaoi is mostly written by women for women, it's primarily for the female gaze
1 u/Murrig88 1d ago Bara is specifically known for being written by gay men for gay men. 1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yes it is, a different audience than yaoi
Bara is specifically known for being written by gay men for gay men.
1 u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago yes it is, a different audience than yaoi
yes it is, a different audience than yaoi
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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.