How many AH participants take delight in male physicality?

[nice90sguy]

Most stories just have a faceless dick that gets lucky

That's because most readers are faceless dicks who want to get lucky.

But by all means write a story about a dick that has a face. Not sure what category it should go into. Probably SF.

 

[StillStunned]

But by all means write a story about a dick that has a face.

A dick head!

Like in 3rd Rock From the Sun.

 

[AchtungNight]

A dick head!

Like in 3rd Rock From the Sun.

IIRC, one of Bluntman and Chronic's villains was such a character.

 

[MyBareTorso]

I write exclusively CFNM, so my stories are very much about the nude male body. I always feature women staring at and appreciating my recurring MC's naked, heavily muscled body. There's a lot of female gaze in my stories; it's a massive turn-on for me, both in my stories and IRL.

 

[AchtungNight]

I’m not really into the male physique, but I have written a few imo sexy male characters. My most frequent male lead, Doug, has a stocky action hero body similar to Patrick Swayze, Sonny Chiba, and Seann William Scott. His best friends are Boris (Dolph Lundgren type), Clarke (The Rock), and Keith (lanky Chinese guy, Will Yun Lee maybe?). His other friends are Wouter- a thin Dutch ex-soldier and Yoshi- a Japanese noble chef, but I’ve never really detailed their physiques or cast actors for them. I’ve also done stories featuring a roadie engineer, a cowboy, Kratos of Sparta, Solid Snake, bikers, navy guys, and a few male celebrities including Benicio del Toro, Ryan Reynolds, Matthew McConaghey, Eamon Sullivan, and Micheal Phelps. Plus a few guys meant to be modern day representations of Dynasty Warriors characters. Again, no in depth detailed physiques.

I haven’t ever detailed female physiques either, now that I think of it. Not beyond petite, slim, athletic, curvy, or voluptuous. I like to leave some things to the imagination. Readers can also google a lot of my female leads if they need pics. Same is true for the non-original male characters. The original female characters… force of habit kicks in most of the time and I don’t detail them much either after the introductory paragraphs. I think only my most recurring female character Lisa has ever gotten a weight class or cup size (featherweight and C if anyone cares). I doubt I’ll ever post her or anyone else’s full measurements. Not like any of my characters would be able to tell such details at a glance or care.

I’ve only ever seen one complaint about lack of detail in original character descriptions. I guess other readers have adequate imagination or AI art tools.

 

[AG31]

I write exclusively CFNM, so my stories are very much about the nude male body. I always feature women staring at and appreciating my recurring MC's naked, heavily muscled body. There's a lot of female gaze in my stories; it's a massive turn-on for me, both in my stories and IRL.

And I love your stories!

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm not really into it, but I incorporated some of this in my story Lisa and the Pool Boy, which, as the title suggests, involves an older woman staring at a handsome young pool boy through the blinds of her house. Things go from there. It's the only story I can think of where I tried to play up a significant "female gaze" element. If I ever get around to writing my planned gay male story, there will be a lot of emphasis on the male physique.

 

[Koboldwithaquill]

Yes, I do!

Personally, I wouldn't enjoy writing a smut story if I wasn't horny for all of the characters involved. However I'm also a fantasy writer and the men I write about are usually non-human races/creatures like dragons, lizardfolk, gnolls, etc. Human men don't excite me much so I rarely have them included as the focus.

Within this context I'm definitely attracted to stereotypically "masculine" features, so I'm absolutely gonna describe the fantasy beast-man's rippling abs, bulging muscles, broad shoulders, and his throbbing, veiny cock etc alongside the more animalistic traits like sharp teeth, claws, hard scales, rugged fur, and so on.

 

[Duleigh]

Obviously there are a lot of such folks reading and writing in the GM genre, but the only GM author I've noticed here in AH is @KeithD. If I'm missing people, would you speak up?

And then there's me. A male MC (a good looking one) is essential in what I read and write. Neither I nor my stories are gay oriented (although there are hints, and some would say blatant homosexualtity. But I don't agree.).

Here's why I'm curious. I'm 80 now and almost all of my life I had a low libido. My sexual relations were more romantic and interpersonal than erotic and physical. A not un-common experience for women, I think. Then, 3 and a half years ago I had an experience that suddenly opened up the world of appreciating male physicality. The example that most describes this, I think, is that I undress men with my eyes. In places like church and the subway. Their faces don't have to be particularly attractive, but as long as they aren't chubby I can get a happy image. I imagine this is a little more like life is for men. Well, anyway, to hear my hubby tell it.

This was a gift, and, in general, I feel more whole than I ever had before.

But I've noticed that I don't find much written or discussed about simple appreciation of male physicality, on the order of what you find regarding female physicality. It feels pretty healthy and I'm just wondering if I'm just not looking in the right places.

Let me know what you think.

Hmmm... there you go, making me think... I've never really liked men's bodies. I like men, I've enjoyed the company of my buddies and my comrades in arms, but I really have always loved the pure beauty of the female body.

Years ago I fell in love with the F-16, a slim, curvaceous little airplane with a nasty temper. I worked on that airplane for a year all the while trying to figure out why I liked it so much. It didn't have a bomb bay, it had seven engines less than I was used to, It had a gun that could shoot the pilot in his back, and it weighed less that many weapons packages that I put on B-52s. Why did I like it so much? Then I looked back on my favorite airplanes (F-106, F-4, F-16, B-1) they all have something in common called the area rule. The area rule is an aerodynamic curvature of the fuselage which gives them a feminine "wasp shape" The B-52 didn't need that because it wasn't going anywhere fast, and if the F-111 had it, it was hidden beneath huge wings and leaks of all kinds of fluids which makes an airplane unattractive.

To me the most beautiful thing on earth is a woman's back, curves flowing off her shoulders, maybe a hint of breast on each side from behind, then narrowing to her waist, then sweeping out to round hips and curving around to her delightful buttocks. That's actually area rule also, those gentle curves reduces aerodynamic drag at transonic speeds on the F-106, F-4, B-1, and F-16. If a woman could fly, with her area rule body she could outfly a blocky C-130 shaped man. So yeah, I just mixed erotica with aerodynamic engineering, but that's why I don't write about men. We're a subsonic species.

 

[AG31]

Bump.
It's getting on towards a year since this thread was posted. Maybe there are new people here.
And then there's this that I composed as a post the other night while watching the Celtics.

Subject: I'm so tickled at the way I appreciate basketball.

I've always watched basketball since I got married 55 years ago. But since an unusual event 4 years ago, I appreciate it at a new level. I just revel in the phsysicality of the players. Jaylen Brown's arms are wonderful, but it's Jason Tatum that keeps me riveted through the whole game. It's hard to believe that he's 6'7" because he looks so proportional. Like a Greek god.

Does anyone else out there share my delight in men?

 

[AlexBailey]

My attractions to men vary greatly and sometimes even surprise me. I am definitely attracted to some physical characteristics more than others but in any case they are still trumped by personality.

The main directions I go for are:

* The big strong gentle giant - think Heath Ledger, or Brad Pitt.

* Trans-feminine or feminine leaning androgynous look - think Hunter Schaefer or Jay Davidson.

* Small but strong and athletic. I can’t think of any famous ones at the moment but I used to have a 5’3” climbing partner I fantasized about.

* My favorite is probably a combination of femme and athletic - a bit conceited maybe, but I guess that can come with being queer.

 

[Nynah]

I am attracted to all sorts of masculinely-shaped people of all different body types and sizes. Particular favorites of mine tend to be people with that delicious V-shape around their hips, American football offensive/defensive linemen, and silver foxes. Each speak to different aspects of my primitive lizard hind brain that just sees men of these types and goes "Yes, me like." My appreciation is largely aesthetic most of the time; occasionally the aforementioned hind brain does fantasize about what folks like those could do for and to me, but I do try to keep that under wraps for propriety's sake.

 

[Escierto]

I think it's wonderful that there are people who enjoy men and appreciate them. For myself, I find them completely disgusting

 

[AG31]

My attractions to men vary greatly and sometimes even surprise me.

This makes me think of my recent attraction to Ben Whishaw. He's shown bare chested or more in Black Doves and The Hour. He's very slim and hairless. I'm intrigued by what makes him so attractive. I just now discovered that he's gay, as I was Googling Whishaw to get his first name. But that doesn't affect his physical attractiveness. What do you think of him?

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

I don’t write in the GM category - at least not yet - but my stories have included a lot of gay sex in them. My main character is bi, and there are plenty of male/male sex scenes throughout the story. In fact, now that I think about it, almost every major male character in my stuff is bisexual or gay. Two major gay characters, and the two biggest male characters are both bi.

I really like writing those scenes and those kinds of characterS, and I am pleased that my world building let me make a world where that kind of behavior is largely unremarkable.

 

[AG31]

My attractions to men vary greatly and sometimes even surprise me.

You've got me going on the specifics of what I find attractive. Imagining the musculature of thighs under pants. That hard-to-articulate quality that makes a man's face male, all kinds of faces. Male body hair. So you can see why I'd be intrigued by my appreciation of Ben Whishaw.

 

[AlexBailey]

This makes me think of my recent attraction to Ben Whishaw. He's shown bare chested or more in Black Doves and The Hour. He's very slim and hairless. I'm intrigued by what makes him so attractive. I just now discovered that he's gay, as I was Googling Whishaw to get his first name. But that doesn't affect his physical attractiveness. What do you think of him?

Yeah, he’s got what I call a ‘soft-male’ look that I really like. I could see myself with a guy like that.

 

[Katie_Mae]

As a reader, I don't care what the male character looks like. Chances are, I probably won't even notice much, I'm not good at paying attention to character descriptions. To be fair, I'm probably not going to notice what the female character looks like either. I'm interested in the bits I find interesting and/or erotic (which I get is different from other people, I know there's people who need physical description, I don't)

As a writer, my male description is probably about the same as my female description. To sum that up in one word, I'd say "lacking."

 

[AG31]

or Jay Davidson.

Oh, wow! Thank you for reminding me of one of the most electric cinematic experiences I ever had. It was probably the last time a story like that would work. Along with the film itself was the experience of "everyone" coming together and agreeing not to reveal the ending. Of course there was no social media, so what we're talking about is print publications.

For those of you who don't know about it, it's worth watching even if you figure everything out. The name is The Crying Game.

 

[AG31]

As a reader, I don't care what the male character looks like.

I totally agree. I'm interested in whether he's old or young, dumpy or ripped, but at the same level I'm interested in whether the setting is a small town or Seattle. No, in this thread I'm talking about looking around me on the subway.

Do you know whether or not you have the capacity for visual imagery? Picturing things in your mind. I don't, so "pictures" of what's in books aren't important. Here's a thread where this is discussed.

 

[Katie_Mae]

I totally agree. I'm interested in whether he's old or young, dumpy or ripped, but at the same level I'm interested in whether the setting is a small town or Seattle. No, in this thread I'm talking about looking around me on the subway.

Ah, so more asking about RL rather than erotic literature? To be honest, the answer's not that much different. I am not very visually observant in my natural state. I probably wouldn't notice if the guy next to me on a subway was attractive or not. Which is interesting, as I've always been interested in the visual arts (drawing, photography etc).

I'm actually working on an illustrated story and, only after drawing my MC's face from multiple angles, realised I have no idea if my MC drawings look like her, or if they all even look like the same person. I'll have to post them to my friends and ask for help, lol.

Do you know whether or not you have the capacity for visual imagery? Picturing things in your mind. I don't, so "pictures" of what's in books aren't important. Here's a thread where this is discussed.

Thanks for the link, I did see that thread when it came out. Had you asked this question 5 years ago I would have answered "yes," however, in recent years I've learnt that when people say "visualise" they don't necessarily mean "Imagine you can see" but "actually see." In which case, the answer would be no. To be honest, I thought the latter was just a different way of explaining the former, but the more I read into it, it appears not. Which is rather fascinating.

Edit to clarify, I do delight in men, but the nature of the observation isn't just visual, especially the first impression. I need other things first before I can find delight in the visual appearance, because I don't notice the visual as early as others might.

 

[BoiBlackcinder]

Oh, wow! Thank you for reminding me of one of the most electric cinematic experiences I ever had. It was probably the last time a story like that would work. Along with the film itself was the experience of "everyone" coming together and agreeing not to reveal the ending. Of course there was no social media, so what we're talking about is print publications.

For those of you who don't know about it, it's worth watching even if you figure everything out. The name is The Crying Game.

That movie was a validation for me. As a femboi/queer I was always on the fringes. Crying game mainstreamed querness for me. I was back in the closet at the time and everyone was talking about that movie and that charcter in a positive light. It gave me more courage to be a little more open about myself.

 

[AG31]

Do you mean "physicality" or "physique?" The former would be a man's actions or state of mind, and the latter would be his appearance. A chubby, ugly man can do things with a lot of physicality, though their physique isn't what you're looking for.

I usually squeeze in some description of a male character's physique, but I don't usually dwell on it. The same goes for female characters.

I've been reviewing this thread, and I decided to think about this question. I know I don't want to say "physique." So why is that? It's because "physique" says to me, the musculature of the body. It doesn't include things like physiognamy, hair distribution, gate. Physicality does, for me. I didn't spend time googling definitions.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

This thread has made me go back and look at some of my male on male scenes and I think I do a pretty good job of describing the men. Moving forward, this will be front of mind for me and I expect I'll get a bit more descriptive. So thanks for that AG!

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I absolutely love men and male pleasure--reading about it, watching it, writing it.

Across my writing career, I've focussed on solo and gay male content with just a few more recent forays into including a woman in things.