Do you find extremely muscular men attractive?

[LittleDrops]

I see a lot of stuff about body acceptance for women, some insanely popular instagrams featuring very large women and clothes, etc. This is great, and I support representation of all body types. I then wondered about men, how they don't ever seem to glorify or share images of being larger bodied. Only muscled bodies.
So I presume men are less accepting of themselves as 'fat' whereas women are becoming more progressive and accepting?

It is obviously a very popular trend for men to build excessive muscle, perhaps way more, in the general sense than any other time in history, but i have wondered how many women like it? I guess this is objectifying the male body, but I am more interested in it as a trend.

I personally prefer a Bruce Lee or yoga toned type male body to a 'built' one, and can't relate to the whole bulging muscle thing. As a straight woman who is attracted to men, anything more than natural kind of turns me right off, sexually, although of course not as a person.

What do you think?

No I don’t like that look.

Doesn't do much for me. I don't think men who do massive bodybuilding do it for women. I think they do it for self esteem issues. same as women who diet their way into waif like bodies.

Vain people are just unattractive to me, anyone who obviously spends a lot of time or money making themself look a certain why is not attractive.

Huge turn off. Lean and fit I like. Overly muscly is competing with other men, very unattractive.

I used to take my sons to a climbing centre a lot and I loved the type of muscularity that keen male climbers develop. Lean and sculpted, super-strong and functional, highly compatible with flexibility - unlike the manslabs of steriody muscularity you see at the gym.

Lots climbed topless too

My husband is muscular, not bodybuilder level but certainly defined, with abs. He goes to the gym about 3/4 times a week for about 45 minutes and eats healthily, although still happy to share a bottle of wine/takeaway occasionally.

I think it’s great to be honest and I love that he looks after himself especially now he’s mid 30s and getting older. I’d way rather that than have him sporting a pot belly and slobbing on the sofa all night or off on six hour cycling trips.

@GoodOldEmmaNess same, they're super hot

It’s not the look that would put me off, but reason for doing it. If that reason is all about looks it would put me off. If it is about function (competitive sport, for example) I’d see a point to it that I could understand.

I’ve been out with blokes of many heights and body sizes, by the way, and what has always attracted me is intelligence, humour, kindness, and a fascination with the world. Their looks are much less important than their minds.

I do. I like the Rock.
In the real world though my type is muscly with a bit of fat, tall and bald.

I would find it interesting and want to have a good prod of those muscles but attractive - no.

I like short fat men. Actually this explains why I’ve never been single…

Some of these comments are horrible, you may not like the look of a heavily muscled man but calling them repulsive and insinuating they are stupid and vain is just plain nasty.

If I liked short fat petrolhead football fans I'd never have been single for long.

I don’t know why people have this perception that you only go to the gym to look good. Plenty of people, men and women enjoy lifting weights because it feels good and they enjoy seeing their body get stronger and being able to do new things, same as any other sport really.

Oh dear! Let's all be nice! Maybe sing Kumbaya? Tra la la dum dum de dee dum.

I find muscles from manual labour a huge turn on and gym bodies a complete turn off.

I suppose it’s because the first signals the potential of a good provider, and the second signals narcissism or at least the likelihood of hours and £££ being spent away with no benefit to home and family.

DH though, is neither, and is the sexiest man I ever met.

A little bit scary sometimes tbh

Have you stood close to one!? I wouldn't have thought I would find it attractive but up close it exerts a powerful primal animal attraction even if person inside body is massive narcissistic body building twat!

Hmmm yes to be specific, I like short fat men who are good at crosswords. It’s quite niche but there are plenty about …

Do men not have varying taste?
It’s a trick question; of course we do. Out of my group of male friends we all have very difference preferences.

Women very much have imposed a certain preference in looks on men, but you’re not likely to get an admission of that on here!

@rantinglunatic

Have you stood close to one!?

I have, plenty of times, and it did nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Just like standing close to a brick wall.

Yes!! I don't look at pictures of muscular men and think phwoar. But there's a dad on the school run who owns a gym and I can barely look at him before turning into a gibbering wreck.

Even with men it comes down to the male gaze! They don't actually ask what women want, and we on the whole don't want that. It's also this horrible thing where porn and media has perpetuated unrealistic body standards on women because we need to be super skinny but have massive boobs and bums. It's not how the body generally works. Men's is unrealistic but they simply don't have a stereotype forced so strongly on them like women, and any pressure they do have typically comes from other men!

@jessnoah

and any pressure they do have typically comes from other men!

Something I do find very attractive in a man is the ability to ignore or withstand that type of pressure.

On a purely superficial and visual level I’m not at all attracted to the Magic Mike body. I’m not keen on the whole defined abs thing. TBH though I don’t think bodies are my thing, attraction wise – I don’t mind if a bloke is very slender or more athletic or chubby. If we’re being superficial I’m all about the pretty faces, preferably framed by a pair of Scandi designed glasses.