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My first reaction was that there'd definitely be plenty of dudes into him
This just reminded me of the old debates about male gaze in video games where gamers would argue that Batman in the Arkham games is just as sexualised as Mai Shiranui because muscles = booba
There'll be someone that won't like me saying this I'm sure but I've often wondered if everyone is capable of some level of bisexuality and if monosexuality is a product of gender norms imprinted through social upbringing.
If true then it would explain how men who identify as straight still sexualise men according to how gay men would do so instead of how women usually do.
Some people explain it away as "it's how men think they need to be to be attractive to women because of toxic masculinity" but I don't think that's all there is to it. I've had conversations with straight men about how seeing a twink fucking a hot porn star would be less attractive for them than seeing a huge muscle man even when the tiny twink would be far more of a self-insert for that straight dude than the muscle man. There is some element of sexual pleasure being drawn from the man in the porn video even for those dudes that identify as straight.
I think it's less that they think a big muscly man is attractive and more that twinks make them uncomfortable. The big muscly man is the norm in porn so the average man doesn't even think about it, any deviation from what is deemed Normal and Straight makes them ask too many questions about themselves and they'll react negatively
I think it's related to why so many people hated Raiden's bishounen looks and his skintight catsuit so much in MGS2 back in 2001
Isn't "straight" somewhat of an exclusionary category to begine with? Isn't that the problem?
It's been a while since I read my Human Sexuality textbook but didn't the Kinsey Scale find that like 15% of each gender (Kinsey only considered 2 at the time) was exclusively straight? So 30% of the total population considered?