Der Ausdruck „sich sexy fühlen“ wird in veröffentlichten Büchern überwiegend zur Beschreibung von Frauen und nicht von Männern verwendet. Dies ist ein Beweis dafür, dass die sexuellen Erfahrungen von Frauen häufig mit der Wahrnehmung verbunden sind, von anderen begehrt zu werden.
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A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that the phrase “feeling sexy” is overwhelmingly used to describe women rather than men in published books. This provides evidence that women’s sexual experiences are frequently tied to the perception of being desired by others. The findings indicate that our everyday language rapidly evolves to reflect our underlying sexual interests and social roles.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-025-03362-5
My sexual experiences are directly tied to the perception of being desired by others.
It’s a one to one direct ratio.
I mean, this concept applies to every day life. I’ve yet to hear any man refer to himself as sexy in a serious manner. This societal norm would propagate into books.
Wouldn’t it be seen as classically archetypical for males to be the driver of desire and females to elicit/coax this desire.
Isn’t it just a feminine word. Similar to how you wouldn’t call a woman handsome but it has similar implications? When a woman calls me sexy I assume she’s joking even if she’s not because it just doesn’t seem like a masculine phrase even if the concept of being desired by others is fine…
I think the people who wrote this article have a different definition for the word „evidence“ than most of the scientific community
Insert ‘feeling fit, hot, attractive, handsome’ and you get something that also fits men’s experiences.
I think this has mostly to do with the semantics of the words ‘feeling sexy’ and how it is probably now seen as a more of an effeminate way of describing attractiveness.
Wouldn’t entirely disregard a possible disparity between men and women when it comes to being expected to show sexual attractiveness in (especially established) sexual relationships though.
I’ve heard a lot of men say they’re feeling sexy about achieving goals or helping others.
Just my view.
I don’t know. I also say more that i feel sexy than my partner. He will more use terms like „i am feeling great about myself“ or „i feel confident in how i look“ but he’ll never say „i am feeling sexy“.
I think authors just put what they often hear from the opposite sex , it doesn’t mean they are infering that women experiences are tied to the perception of being desired by others, it just shows that women tend to say they feel sexy a lot.
Women “feel sexy.” Men “feel like a man.”
‚We examined whether sexual phrases indicative of ODSC themes referred to, and were expressed by, women more than men using a corpus approach to language in a large database of books.“
…“As hypothesized, the majority (89%) of the “hit” phrases (occurring in at least 40 books) were more associated with a female noun/pronoun than a male noun/pronoun.“
…“An examination of a sample of the books containing the most frequent ODSC phrase (i.e., “her feel sexy”) indicated they were predominantly authored by women (89%). Also, an analysis of the genre of the books containing this phrase indicated that a large proportion (64%) were heterosexual romance novels.“
i mean…i feel like this has more literary implications than social. I fail to see how this can be abstracted in any way to any greater social gender differences.
Authors clearly never heard “I am too sexy for my cat” song (and have not seen video).
On a serious note, since when these kind of “studies” are allowed on r/science?
Did the study account for the gender of the authors of the books analyzed? I’m wondering if the results might be skewed by the infamous male authors writing female characters „feeling sexy as they breast boobily down the stairs“…