In a nice riff on my explanation for why media preferentially show only female naked PETA protestors**, frequent commenter Nightfall explained all.

First, here’s how I ended the post

Rule #2: It’s simultaneously inconceivable and intolerable for men to be sexually desired. Therefore even if there weren’t a strong bias towards the whole “male gaze” thing for women men will both be naked less and be shown naked less because it’s more of an offense to show naked men. Which is, of course, dumb, but there you go.

To which Nightfall added

Because if you are a man who sees naked men a lot, you will get turned on, and become gay. And if you are a woman who sees naked men a lot, you will get turned off, and become a lesbian. This is because modern humans have extremely fragile sexual orientations, unlike people from between 5 decades ago and the dawn of humanity. ;)

That pretty much says it all.

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