Here’s a link to a video clip, presumably from a Japanese reality-TV show, featuring male strippers, censored hetero-sex scenes, and an all-female studio audience. (View at your own discretion.)

I found this after coming home tonight from a discussion with a female friend who, like many women I’ve talked with over the years, complained that the media didn’t do enough to depict men as sex objects. But, like all the women with whom I’ve had this discussion, she admitted she didn’t care to view male nudity. It wouldn’t be a direct turn-on for her. She just felt it would be politically fairer for men to have to subject themselves to such treatment.

I tried to tell her that many men would love the chance to be ogled at by women who just wanted one thing from them (if that one thing wasn’t money). I also tried to explain that the traditional male body-image stereotype wasn’t that of a sex object but that of a work object. Lift that barge, tote that bale, go off to war and die for somebody else’s profit. In this muscle-bound context, flopping genitalia are the most un-“manly” body parts imaginable.

So, I’m asking all my dozens of female readers: Do you enjoy male nudes? With or without the “fairness” issue, are you actually interested in such sights? I won’t promise to put any on this site, but I’d like to hear what you have to say about the matter. Include your name (real or fake), and note whether you’d like your response posted on the site.