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What's the psychological reason why a man might be attracted to a woman with muscles?

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Jul 07, 2022 - permalink

”now you are looking for a payback in the form of sensually consuming other people for your emotional needs”

This js sheer brilliance!!! Beautifully composed sentence.

Even married to a phenomenal woman for half of my life and still going strong I’m still looking for “women in distress” to “help” them. I usually say to my “muses” that I swallow people and spit them out. I off course know my behaviour has nothing to do with them. It’s all about me. The fact that I always want a sensual side to every relationship without needing it has always confused me too.

I have thanks to you Zarklephaser come to a point that I understand that my muscle fetish and my emotional needs are connected. I’ve always thought that there are to separate things and that the fetish is something else. I’ve always known my mother is behind my behaviour, but not the fetish.

The things that is happening to me now is that the whole idea of a strong muscular woman that will complete my life and save me is gone. The fantasy is still there, but I’m transitioning to a consumer of muscle for relaxing purposes rather than a drug. Sex with my wife has always been great, but I’m feeling more and appreciate the closeness more etc. We are also looking into and talking about how to adjust our sex to the new idea that muscles is a mirage. Can we get the same level of arousal that muscles have given me without muscle? The shame and control that the muscles “supplies” is probably doable without muscles.

Thanks again Zarklephaser. Please dominate this thread. :)

Jul 19, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

I will, I will.

Jul 28, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

Many things in fetishes tend towards extremes.

Jul 30, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

Even I do, sometimes.

Jul 31, 2022 - permalink

I think it's a chance thing. Some experience in your life probably triggered your attraction towards muscular women. If it wasn't muscular women, it might have been something else. For me it was my swim coach. She had nice biceps and when her swim suit would get wet you could see her abs through it. This was just around the time I started going into puberty and started becoming more and more interested in girls. I think the combination of that and seeing her so often probably sparked my attraction to muscular women.

Jul 31, 2022 - permalink

I have always been attracted to girls and women with muscle and I never knew why. In school when a girl would pop a bicep it would drive me crazy. I had a near death experience at the age of 20. I died and came back. In one of the lifetimes that I remembered when I came back I married an amazing girl with wonderful biceps. So when I came back it was no wonder I was attracted to them.

Jul 31, 2022 - permalink

yes to sum up the whole thread in a few words....

one day you just see a fitness woman and it really turns you on.

but also there is probably a previous sense of boredom or dislike of the female body.

like all the delicassy, softness, passivity that they project doesn't really turn you on.

Jul 31, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

Probably extremely few are exclusively attracted to muscular women.

Jul 31, 2022 - permalink

you are not special.

every man looks at a fitness girl on drugs/silicones and thinks she looks amazing.

every girl looks at a male bodybuilder and thinks he looks amazing.

why doesn't everybody date the bodybuilders then?

because there aren't so many of them... so people just date what they have close to them.

that's the real difference for me.... some men get horny with pretty much any girl.

other men need a perfect fitness model to get horny.

who is going to get married and procreate?

the guy with the lower standards probably.

Jul 31, 2022 - permalink

To bodybuilding:

I'd submit (pun intended) that what kills the attraction is that the girls are mentally and socially too strong to approach safely but too weak to entirely take the initiative out of the young male's hands. But this is again one of my earlier theories that muscles signal the initiative that the man fears he is lacking. They fuel a fantasy that the girl will naturally overcome your indecisiveness and hesitation.

I have to disagree here.

If you are hesitant to approach a little weak girl you will be 100 times more hesitant to approach a muscular girl who looks like a superhero.

it's just standards... that's all.

some men are ok with next door/friend/housewife type of girl..... others need the perfect fitness model.

I wish I had lower standards.... it makes things much easier.

Jul 31, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

Fantasy versus reality.

Jul 31, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

I am special. Just ask around.

Jul 31, 2022 - permalink

Strictly speaking, sexuality is not a need. Food, water, shelter and sleep are needs. This whole thing here is a luxury.

well to most animal species and humans too procreation is the main aim of life.

that puts it in the same category as all the other basic needs maybe.

some people were not born with that procreation instinct and maybe those are the ones who worry more about what they like and their fantasies.

the others just worry about making a family... is it with a muscular woman? a woman with big boobs? small? tall? short? they don't care.

they seem to be worried about other things.... and I don't think that's bad at all.

Aug 01, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

well to most animal species and humans too procreation is the main aim of life.

That's technically possible with almost all women.

Aug 26, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

But humans need it to have a social aspect too.

Aug 28, 2022 - permalink

My atraction to muscular women doesn't come from childhood, by beign raised by a dominant mother, having an early encounter with a strong woman or anything like that. Also I dont see it as a form of fetish or deviation.

First, I just like women and muscular ones are just as any other for me. I also love regular women or other "atypical" archetypes as chubby/fat or bimbos.

Second, for me muscular women have a very aesthetically pleasing and beautiful body shape and figure overall, except for the most massive and biggest bodybuilder type wich I tend to dislike. Also I find some muscled body parts especially sexy like quads or abs.

An finally, the most kinky part of it I suppose is the feeling of physical domination and power over me by a such strong women. That feeling is intensified by the fact that I am a short and skinny guy

Aug 30, 2022 - permalink
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Aug 30, 2022 - permalink

Because they are ridiculously hot?

Yeah.

Aug 30, 2022 - edited Jul 13, 2024 - permalink

No, not all of them.

C87
Aug 30, 2022 - permalink

I certainly didn't grow up around muscular women, but watching things like Gladiators on the TV in the UK you'd see muscular or toned women. That was probably my first exposure to muscular females. Then came WWE and seeing the likes of women ranging from Chyna to Trish Stratus. I remember being a kid in school when Chyna did playboy and my friends talking about how hot she was, so I wasn't alone in liking the toned female look.

I don't exclusively only like muscular women, I like pretty much all forms of body types.

I am not a gym goer, neither is my partner.

I always get annoyed by this stigma around muscular or fit females being a fetish. The media celebrates toned female celebrities in films, music etc but when they get too muscular, they're almost seen as freaks. What happened to body shaming? Or is that only when it suits?

M76
Aug 30, 2022 - permalink

My educated guess it is an evolutionary trait going back to the hunter gatherer days. As in a strong female is more capable at protecting your offspring while you are away hunting. But if it is a trait from 20-50.000 years ago then surely much more men should have it, right? The counter argument to that is with civilization the necessity for physical protection reduced to almost zero, therefore loosing this trait did not affect the survivability and that's why the majority no longer have it.

cgsweat
Aug 30, 2022 - permalink

I think it's more likely to have to do with personality/upbringing. I think most if not all of us have experienced some strong girl or woman in our childhood who attracted us. That is the 'what,' the 'why' would have to do with our psychologies, and that's all been mostly theorized already throughout this thread.

If there haven't been any unique studies done on this subject, then I don't see any reason why users on this site couldn't be asked about their personalities, and see if there is some common link between us. Anyone is welcome to start such a thread.

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