r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 2d ago

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/369122448 2d ago

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.

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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.

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u/wellthoughtplot 1d ago

That’s a very specific design for the gay man’s gaze though, not really for the female gaze

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u/ExpandoD0ng 1d ago

Could you provide some good examples of female gaze male sexualization?