• Glide@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    As long as we’re talking about hetereosexual “weirdness”, can we discuss the desire to gag and be disgusted on seeing another man naked? It’s not fucking gross. It’s not fucking anything. Seeing another man’s member is like seeing their arm: if they’re particularly jacked, you’re a little impressed, maybe envious, and otherwise “oh look, a body part”. This whole fabricated need to act disgusted out of what I can only assume is fear that your lack of reaction could be misunderstood as interest is fucking weird.

    • morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com
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      3 months ago

      How I feel about seeing another person naked has less to do with their gender and more to do with their personal maintenance. Take Arnold at the beginning of T2 for example. Guy was well-groomed and built. There was nothing ick about that.

      On the other hand, take a person who doesn’t take care of themselves, and have them be naked where being naked isn’t appropriate, and your attention is drawn to the ways in which they don’t take care of themselves.

      My neighbor, a woman, once bent over in a dress with no underwear on, to get something out of a car. I didn’t see, but my wife did, and she got the ick. Whether you think she got the ick due to the inappropriateness of the scenario, or the fact that my neighbor does not take care of herself, it’s clearly not just a guy thing.

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        3 months ago

        Agreed, but that is far removed from the “penis’ are gross and make me feel sick” attitude many “straight” men take.

        My point is more that seeing someone’s gross, regularly unwashed genetalia is on par with seeing the toothless, decaying smile of someone who hadn’t brushed their teeth in years. It’s dusgusting, but it’s not about sexual preference.