I guess there are two separate things going on here: the eye candy thing, and actual sexual behaviors and desires. Women are expected to enjoy male celebrity eye candy, though perhaps more amoungst themselves than in mixed company. Still, there's a certain societal acceptability to that.
On the other hand, as phallocentric as our culture is, women don't seem to be expected to have that desire based on the phallus itself; namely, it's not as sexual a desire somehow. Women are expected to have sex with their partners more out of a desire of intimacy and to please them than out of their own sexual desires, I think. This isn't true in all circles, certainly, but I think it is true of society at large.
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Date: 2005-11-14 08:53 pm (UTC)On the other hand, as phallocentric as our culture is, women don't seem to be expected to have that desire based on the phallus itself; namely, it's not as sexual a desire somehow. Women are expected to have sex with their partners more out of a desire of intimacy and to please them than out of their own sexual desires, I think. This isn't true in all circles, certainly, but I think it is true of society at large.