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Most women don’t like seeing naked men?

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Georgethecat1 · 23/06/2024 21:07

If said woman is interested in men I should add!

Talking about strippers and how a lot of men seem to like the female body / stare at women. Talking in our group of friends and I don’t think women are the same and seeing a man topless does nothing for me. I’m talking super buff and has a good body too, I’m much more attracted based on personality and find the cockiness of thinking they are gods gift to women a turn off.

Only one friend said they love seeing naked / topless men and finds it sexual.

OP posts:
AgathaAllAlong · 24/06/2024 16:36

Someone mentioned Colin Bridgeton taking his shirt off upthread - it's a perfect example. I find him attractive when he takes his shirt off at the start and when he's with Penelope, but not at all attractive when he takes it off to sleep with prostitutes.

ArsesUnited · 24/06/2024 20:12

Februaryfeels · 23/06/2024 21:15

I'd rather see a man in a well cut suit or with shirt with sleeves rolled up

Oooof, yep! ♥️

Scorchio84 · 24/06/2024 20:47

Georgethecat1 · 23/06/2024 21:45

Yeah if I’m ovulating I might give my DH the side eye but the rest of the month I am not bothered 😂

Interestingly my DH said he never gets bored of seeing boobs. Even 15 years later he still loves boobs.

It is literally like this... my OH is the same 😂

annabofana · 24/06/2024 20:51

"I often wonder if any woman who has received an unasked for dick pic has ever thought lovely, must call this chap immediately."

@Blackcats7

😂 I've often wondered that myself

annabofana · 24/06/2024 20:53

"I personally always thought it was unfair there were no male prostitutes for women. I think society isn't set up at all for women's desires, and a lot of women probably repress theirs as a result"

@MsCactus I think the difference is that men don't seem to care that they are paying for it. They will still enjoy it.

For me, I couldn't enjoy it knowing that the guy was only doing it because I was paying him.

That would be a massive turn off, to the point where I just don't think I could ever go through with it.

Men don't seem to care. Which I find hard to get my head around.

dunkdemunder · 24/06/2024 22:04

@Notamum12345577

Well, the attitude of the women I have seen when a male stripper is swinging his willy around seems to show some like it 🤣
I feel like that is often excitement at being with friends doing something 'naughty' rather than actually going crazy with desire at a naked man

Savemysweets · 24/06/2024 22:09

I definitely appreciate a very good looking man in clothes or not, there just aren’t that many of them about!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 24/06/2024 22:17

Oblomov24 · 23/06/2024 21:27

What I mean by that is that the penis isn't the most beautiful of things is it?

As my DM’s elderly neighbour once put it, ‘A man doesn’t really look very attractive in just his socks.’ 😂

Catsmere · 24/06/2024 22:22

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 24/06/2024 22:17

As my DM’s elderly neighbour once put it, ‘A man doesn’t really look very attractive in just his socks.’ 😂

That reminds me of the line from Oliver's Travels about how a woman, naked except for stockings, looks intensely erotic, but a man, naked except for socks, looks utterly ludicrous.

BinkyBeaufort · 24/06/2024 22:44

A man with a great body, not too plump or too skinny, not waxed totally hairless - heck yeah I like that.
My local pub used to have a set of naked male pictures on the walls. They were very popular and I never heard any negative comments. Oddly and alas they graduallly disappeared .....

PontiacFirebird · 24/06/2024 22:57

Oh I like a topless man with a good set of shoulders, broad chest, smattering of chest hair… not walking down the street though. Topless men in public feels threatening and gross.
I also don’t know why so many women say penises aren’t attractive. They really are to me, although, again, not disembodied random ones in dick pics. But a hot naked aroused man that you WANT to look at… Hell yes!

Scorchio84 · 25/06/2024 00:39

@PontiacFirebird shoulders & chests are everything I blame (or thank!) my mother

Onedaystronger · 25/06/2024 01:51

@Catsmere I'm so with you on the "naked man still wearing socks" thing. I'm not proud of my shallowness around this but I found it very off putting when I realised (often) that EXH was still wearing socks when we were having sex.

Onedaystronger · 25/06/2024 02:00

Great post OP!

I hadn't realised that this was such a common feeling.

I find a strong male body attractive- not overly muscly- just rugged, with big shoulders, broad chest, strong arms.....

It feels very shallow to care- but not many men of a similar age to me seem to look like that anymore. It's also pretty hypocritical given my body is aging too.....

I can't find younger men who have that physique sexually attractive. I can appreciate that they are technically good looking but I can't find them attractive. It just feels wrong whereas I believe men feel no awkwardness about being sexually attracted to women much younger than them.

RawBloomers · 25/06/2024 03:17

I hate male strippers and male “pin ups” do nothing for me. I don’t like men “displayed” as passive objects.

But I like male bodies.

I could stare for hours at someone like Sergei Polunin in this (despite his politics):

Scorchio84 · 25/06/2024 03:40

@RawBloomers that entire piece is amazing, music & movement are perfect, I'm getting goosebumps

victoriapauncefootjones · 25/06/2024 03:52

For me it's all about the voice. Personality too of course, but the voice is super important.

Won't forget the first time I heard Idris Elba speak in Real Rock n Rolla, pure sex. That movie had some very sexy voices (Tom Hardy, Mark Strong).

Seeing them naked, hard (pardon the pun) pass.

Magpie50 · 25/06/2024 04:00

It's all in the brain chemistry. Men are just more visually stimulated whereas women are more cerebral when it comes to attraction.

It's why men's porn is mainly pictures or videos and womens tend to be more written word.

Personally I'm ace and would rather you all kept your clothes on!😆

Catsmere · 25/06/2024 04:34

Onedaystronger · 25/06/2024 01:51

@Catsmere I'm so with you on the "naked man still wearing socks" thing. I'm not proud of my shallowness around this but I found it very off putting when I realised (often) that EXH was still wearing socks when we were having sex.

I'm relieved to say I've never been in that situation, with or without socks! 😆

Funny thing about the scene was that the characters, Diane and Oliver (Sinéad Cusack and Alan Bates) eventually put it to the test and decided that yes, it was quite true. Which given this was Alan Bates at sixty and, well, cuddly at best by then, wasn't surprising!

newnamethanks · 25/06/2024 07:26

I doubt that 'strip clubs' are full of men laughing at the naked women, quite the opposite, whereas a male stripper tends to engender hilarity rather than lust, as mentioned above. Not the same thing at all.

Upinthenightagain · 25/06/2024 07:32

No no interest here in that sort of thing. In fact I made a total tit of myself yesterday when I opened the door to a delivery guy who was about 6ft 4 and clearly some kind of body builder in a tiny vest. It was such an unexpected sight for a Monday morning I inadvertently let out a scream of fright when I opened the door and shut it as quickly as possible. I’m not sure why it scared me so much

acquarius · 25/06/2024 08:24

AgathaAllAlong · 24/06/2024 16:34

I don't think this is unusual for women, but I need to already fancy them and have a connection to want to see them naked. If I don't want to sleep with them, then seeing them naked will not make me want to sleep with them - but if I am already into them, then absolutely I want to see them shirtless.

This is why women are the primary consumers of romance shows and erotic novels, and men are the primary consumers for porn. Naked men even in fiction do nothing for me, I need a good 100 pages explaining why this man is THE man for the protagonist before he whips his chest out.

Almost certainly there is some biological aspect to this, such as the very real risk that comes with sleeping with men who you don't already judge to have certain virtues (for example, that he won't hurt you). Also most likely some socialisation. Although I suspect that there are some closeted bi people around who don't realise that they feel sexual attraction to naked women because they are bi, in general we're socialised young to see women as objects of attraction.

Precisely this 👆

Reproduction requires intercourse but intercourse is fraught with dangers for women. That's why mere sight is usually not enough. It would be too risky to use this factor alone as mate selection.

A Woman needs to be reassured that the man will not hurt her and be a reliable, long term partner. Hence more focus on character than looks.

Men do not risk much during intercourse and do not bear the cost of carrying a baby so the visuals are enough.

Savemysweets · 25/06/2024 08:48

It's all in the brain chemistry. Men are just more visually stimulated whereas women are more cerebral when it comes to attraction.

It's why men's porn is mainly pictures or videos and womens tend to be more written word.

Is it? I definitely can be very visually stimulated by an attractive man, the man in porn just aren’t my type, very happy to perv on an actor I like though!

Savemysweets · 25/06/2024 08:50

I also don’t know why so many women say penises aren’t attractive. They really are to me, although, again, not disembodied random ones in dick pics. But a hot naked aroused man that you WANT to look at… Hell yes!

With you, and love shoulders & arms. I would rather look at a penis than a vulva.

Workoutinthepark · 25/06/2024 08:58

Well I feel very much in the minority here! Given my profession, I grew up reading Men's Fitness which I always presumed catered to half a bodybuilder and half a gay men audience (if you are familiar with the magazine you'll know what I mean) 😁.

As a consequence I'm very used to seeing and also very partial to seeing ripped guys posing around in shorts, with a good tan lol. Nothing wrong in that.