Obviously individual tastes differ, but there are generalities in that some people are held to be attractive by a lot of people and others are held to be unattractive by a lot, and so on.
So my question is how much correlation there will be in this assessment between the opinions of straight men versus lesbian women about women’s attractiveness, and how much between the opinions of straight women versus gay men about men’s.
And to the extent that these may tend to diverge, what are the differences?
I think symmetry is a sign of good health, and it’s generally regarded as an attractive quality. I suspect that’s valued the same for men and women, gay and straight.
Strictly anecdotal and I comment from a male heterosexual perspective, but it seems to me there is definite tendency for gay male sexual preferences to skew toward younger men, often well into the teens even if the gay man is older. This ideation of youth seems stronger in gay male preferences than it does in heterosexual men looking at females or heterosexual women looking at females. No clue for lesbian preferences.
This is not to say youth isn’t viewed as sexy across the board, or that some heterosexuals are not youth oriented, it simply seems (IMO) that youthfulness as an attractiveness attribute is more valued in general by gay males, even in the older cohorts than other groups.
Re magazine fashion ads a lot (not all) of the male models (again IMO) are set in poses and scenarios where they look 100% gay. From a hetrosexual male perspective they’re honestly not that attractive as the effeminacy of the male model’s look and poses in these ads is somewhat off putting, but I realize I’m probably not the target demographic.