I think women must be less interested in just 'sex' without any sort of romance or emotion attached to it - otherwise there would be somewhat of a porn industry for women. but there isn't really. and women do not go to male hookers either. Yes, it exists but it's almost null. I did an internet porn research looking for naked man and I could ONLY find gay sites - not a single one geared to women would pop up on google. that tells me that there is no demand - otherwise someone would have gone into business by now.
Women don't go to male hookers? Haven't you heard of gigolos? What else are they but male hookers, although not street-walking ones? There are lots of high-class female hookers as well.
Anyway... I agree that women on the whole are far less inclined to view sex as a purely physical thing than men are. (Which doesn't mean that there aren't women who are interested in sex as a purely physical thing - I am definitely not one, but I am aware that there are women who are like that. And there are also men who aren't interested in sex as a purely physical thing with no emotion attached. ) It's a big question how much of these attitudes are due to biological difference between men and women, and how much to the gender roles and cliches that we're all taught all our lives. It is very hard to say. (oh, the old and never-ending Nature vs Nurture debate!) There is definitely a difference, but I suspect it might be overemphasized and oversimplified. True, the psychological moment is more important to (most) women, but one shouldn't underestimate the importance of physicality to female sexual reactions. There might not be that many women who would get off on watching naked pictures of unknown men, but that doesn't mean that a woman would by no means ever be interested in seeing a picture of a naked man or couldn't be aroused by it... and it certainly doesn't mean that there aren't many women who would love to see a naked picture of a celebrity they like. I wouldn't be particularly interested or aroused by pictures of anonymous men, but I certainly like to see a naked or half-naked shot of a man I really like and find attractive and interesting. And I have visited some of the 'naked celebrity hunks' sites - many of them state that they're geered to the gay male population, but what's keeping women from visiting them? Nothing. I don't see how a regular nude/half-nude photo of a good-looking man could be specifically 'homoerotic' or geared towards gay men? If it's a picture of two or more men having sex, that's another matter, but this way... I don't see the difference. You have searched for pictures of naked men...that tells something. You might just go to the 'gay-geared' site and watch the pictures of naked male celebrities, so there's no need to make sites specifically geared to women, is there?
That's not my main point, though.
You seem to have severely misunderstood me. I said that
the old myth that women are any less interested in sex than men is totally untrue. And as I said, I also think, just as you do, that women are generally are far less inclined to view sex as a purely physical thing than men are. These two theories are not at odds with each other. Why would you think they are?
There is a widespread belief that sex is, for the most part, a physical thing - for instance, there are many people who think that 'sexual attraction' and 'physical attraction' are interchangeable terms. Which is not true - sexual attraction and sexual arousal often depend on psychological factors. I believe that there is no greater aphrodisiac than being really, madly in love with someone - it makes for the strongest sexual arousal possible. (Of course, it goes the other way round too - physical attractiveness does play a big part in falling in love; for women, too). And it's not just love, or even just a desire for intimacy (not necessarily with a person you love) - people can get sexually aroused by a number of other feelings, for instance: a desire to assert themselves, to prove something to themselves and others, rebelliousness, a need to feel that they're attractive, a desire to be degraded and/or abused, a desire to degrade and/or abuse someone else, a wish to feel power over someone, revenge, anger, etc. The point is, phychological factors play a huge role in people's sexual feelings and reactions.
There is a
big delusion that being interested in sex / driven by sex means being interested in sex as a purely physical thing, and wanting to have as much sex as possible, with any available (especially physically attractive) sex object; that it means being obsessed with tits or dicks and looking for porn, going to the prostitutes, being promiscuous etc. That's why people often make the wrong assumption that a person who deals with sexual themes a lot in their work must be promiscious, or at least must be having lots of sex, which quite often turns out not to be true at all - it can quite often be the opposite (poor old Mr. Freud has often been named as an example, but he's certainly not the only one). On the contrary, I would say that people whose sexual reactions are more complex, and less driven by pure physicality, are likely to view sex as a very important matter, and maybe to value it more; if sex and sexual feelings mean to you much more than just ordinary everyday exchange of fluids, then sexuality might permeate your whole personality, life, and work. Eroticism which goes beyond the mere physicality is far deeper and stronger.
So if there is a greater number of women who don't view sex as just a physical thing... you might even say that women are generally more interested in sex. female sexuality has been misunderstood for centuries - men seemed incapable of understanding how it was possible for women to either have no orgasm at all, or to have multiple orgasms; and it resulted in myths of women as saints/virgins and whores/nymphomaniacs.
But I also suspect that male sexuality is not that simple as sitcoms and commercials would make us believe. I think that the role of psychological factors in male sexuality is very much understimated.