I'm a New York City girl through and through, and for a lot of women of my generation that have independence, degrees, education, and careers of their own, it's usually less important to choose men on the basis of how well they can "keep" you. More and more, you see lots of women that are choosing young, handsome men for sexual purposes, to show off, and have sexy arm candy. In other words, women are choosing men for the same reason men have traditionally married young trophy blondes. I suspect this trend will increase as women get a lot more power in our society.
If you're a guy, this may be either bad news or good news. On the one hand, if you're a brawny, sexy guy, you have the possibility for a "sugar mama." On the other hand, it may make a lot of guys uncomfortable: after all, men aren't used to being sexualized. They're used to doing that to women! I've heard a persuasive argument that the origin of homophobia is the fear among men they might get treated themselves the way they treat women.
Sex tourism among wealthy first-world women is a pretty big event these days. Older gals love muscular, tall guys in places like Kenya and Jamaica, where a crop of giggolos lives to please visiting English and American divorcees.
1. Firefighters
There was a whole routine in Sex in the City about how the one thing you’re not allowed to talk about is the idea the reason Firefighters are such a big fantasy is a result of the desire to be rescued. The moment Cynthia Nixon mentioned it, the temperature dropped 20 degrees, especially among the hip, independent New Yorker career gals the Sex and the City types are. To admit it wasn’t okay.
But other than that, it’s not hard to understand why firefighters are such a big deal. They’re heroic, frequently covered in sweat and grime, hardbodied, brawny, frequently engage in lifting. They’re usually tanned, darkhaired Mediterranean types. In fact, they’re required to be strong: the average firefighter is required to be able to lift a 200 pound adult and run with them, for obvious job-related reasons. They're alpha males, confident and physical.
(And I made it through this one, successfully resisting the urge to use a single “hot” pun! Yay!)
2. Male Stripper
One of my asshole guy friends made the kind of observation that only assholes can make, which at first sounds like classic guy douchery, but the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. We were talking about the income gap between men and women.
“Oh, the gap doesn’t matter so much, because women can be strippers.”
I hit him on the arm as hard as I could for that.
“Hold up, think about it,” he said. “Unless you’re really really fat or old, most women could work as a stripper. Guys though? You can only be one if you have this superhuman, built bod almost no guys really have.”
I found this line of reasoning really hard to argue with.
The reason male strippers are sexy are not just because of their superhuman builds and desire to please and be sexualized, but because of their gift for accessorizing. Nothing is sexier than little bowtie collars, or leopard print jungle-man man-scraps.
One of the more absolutely jaw-dropping moments in the history of bodybuilding would be that time the unbelievable, supermasculine stud Ulisses Williams Jr. turned a regular flex and posing routine into something with a stripper heat and bump n’ grind.
3. Personal Trainer
I’ve joked about this before, but I’ve frequently imagined that once I turn forty, I would divorce my husband and have an affair with some sexy 20-something pool boy or gardner.
The reason personal trainers are sexy is because of the promise of secret, scandalous affairs.
4. Cowboy
Dark, tanned skin, chapped lips, an open grin, friendly eyes, a big rugged chest bursting out of an unbuttoned flannel shirt…yeah, there’s nothing like a cowboy. There are very few real men left on earth.
5. Serial Killer
This isn’t a fantasy of MINE, but I’m listing it here for the sake of completeness, because of all the girlfriends I know that think Sylar from HEROES is extremely hot. The appeal I can totally understand: women are frequently sexually attracted to things that make us afraid, and aggressive, predatory men with real intensity can be a turn-on.
I like to think I have a little more sanity and common sense than these silly people, of course, but it would be a lie…this entire nutty blog would be proof!
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