Quote from Transdude1996
You were asking for what other reason a female creator would make a character sexually attractive for any reason than to appeal to guys.
...and your proposed reason, is utterly wrong, as I pointed out.
They do not deliver any form of power fantasy, but rather sexual titillation.
Not in adition to power fantasy. Just sexual titillation.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Hence your argument is void.
...and yeah, there's quite a difference between book (i.e. real original) Conan, and movie Conan.
Also a lot of the people generally considered sexy, aren't necessarily that "fit". Just healthy and non-fat. A bit of muscles can maybe be a plus, but is hardly required.
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Most of the time, whenever people talk about series appealing to "horny young teen boys", they trying to use it as a criticism
Oh yeah, good point. That's quite true. Thanks for pointing that out.
Hence your error was quite understandable.
Indeed, I'd say I should have been more careful of the connotations of my phrasing.
Sorry, my bad.
Hell, it is also true of how I, myself, usually talk about series that appeal to "horny young teen boys" (and how, for example, I utterly diss pretty much anything by Akamatsu Ken, as trash without any value), and I do disapprove of most fan-service (sexual fan-service especially, but also non-sexual) ...though that's to do with how it's used, including how it distracts from the story (except in series where the story is just the excuse for the fan-service, which I especially despise), rather than how sexual the content is.
My mention of it, in regards to Ranma, however, was purely to point out how extremely ridiculous it is, to think that the nudity in the series, was about anything other than sexual fan-service, rather than being any comment on the series, itself.