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: A: "Men are objectified in media too. E.g. the insane physiques of
: superheroes, among others"
: B: "Batman having a sculpted body is to appeal to male power fantasies,
: not to appeal to women"
: A: "Romance novels aimed almost exclusively at women have male
: hardbodies on the covers without fail because they appeal to women"
: B: "I heard a woman say they don't like it though. Checkmate"
: You shouldn't need a "study" when the data is so self evident. The
: men -- those men -- are on the cover because that's what sells. To believe
: that it's not what women want, you'd have to somehow believe the entire
: industry -- all of it -- is forgoing the larger profits they could get
: from putting balding insurance actuaries on their covers and have been for
: decades.
Do you literally think women are judging a book by its cover when they buy these things?
A romance novel isn't about the illustration on the cover, it's about the romance, and often risque or lewd descriptions of relations, between the covers.