The obsession with beautiful boys?

of course from manga bishounen (pretty / cute boys) or most of people like to said "uke" on yaoi things ...

i adore cute boys fiction or real , i like see cute boys it doesn't bored me ~
and i'm a person who bored quickly with stuff (which is bad if i get into this hobby)
so i decide to look for cute boys ~
and truth i never really got attracted for manly or macho man , i don't know why ... but i like handsome boy (not manly)

 

Personally I can see a lot of reasons why people like feminine men as dolls, I mean, on a very simple level, doll collecting is realistically quite a feminine hobby and this may dictate to a certain extent the kind of men who get into the hobby, but also the concept that female collectors may have of it.
I, however, feel quite differently, and I imagine there are others who agree. I struggle to find any male dolls I want to buy because for me, I have to be able to look at the sculpt and think - if I put a wig and dress on him, would he just look like a woman? And I'm really not interested in any where that's true, so I only have two men in my collection currently - Souldoll Chiron Centaur and Idealian51 London, and I have an Iplehouse Dexter coming. I try to seek out the more masculine sculpts.

 

I find feminine guys attractive...though I prefer them acting/ being depicted in a more stereotypical masculine manner...I don't mind the yaoi or shounen-ai, though I don't read it. The thing I don't like is the copious amounts of rape in anything involved with yaoi, like what the fuck? Scratch that, anything with rape is bad...I'm going so off topic...

 

I love bishonen boys - but I don't like effeminate ones. I want MY pretty boys to act masculine. Byakuya from Bleach is definitely bishonen - or for those of you Browncoats, Simon's a pretty boy but, well, a guy... Then there's those 300 guys - LOL
I'm a geek otaku whatever, love SF, anime & manga, kungfu theater, etc. I LOVE that BJDs echo these characters I love

 

I like more feminine looking men for sure. It helps that I've been exposed more to Asian media, where all the guys are somewhat effeminate looking, than Western media (though, admittedly, I haven't found a single male actor in Western media hot). So...yeah. xD

 

I also prefer slightly feminine males in the BDJ world, yet my boyfriend irl is quite masculine ^^; I think more feminine male dolls are less intimidating. I think my tastes may be changing slightly, since I plan to get a buff Soom Mega Gem this year. In general, I think I can "relate" more to feminine dolls, and I just like male sculpts better.

 

I've noticed that my doll wish-list is rather boy centric, but then again I've always felt more comfortable around guys, so maybe that's why. Although Fionan would be completely comfortable in a dress, none of my guys - or desired guys - are 'girly', though. Cailean would kill me if anything remotely "cute" so much as touched on him by accident. Unless it was a girl, that is

 

I used to have a real 'thing' for pretty boys, both in BJDs and real men. This meant pretty faces, long hair, slim build. This is reflected a lot in my first doll, who has been described as 'pretty'. This was probably due, inadvertently, to my lack of experience with men, which made me feminize them to make them more familiar and relatable to me. My current boyfriend is a very masculine man and I think being with him has taken away a lot of the fear I had of males, so now I look for more masculine dolls, although I don't think they need huge muscles and beards to look like 'real men'.

 

As a pansexual, I don't really see the big deal of "macho" men vs "pretty" guys as I find them both equally attractive in their own rights ^^; This kind of also reflects my views in the BJD world... Although lately, I've had a personal ardor for "handsome" men with muscular bodies. So a kind of in-between the two. Although compared to other people in the hobby, I seem to have a somewhat reverse situation when it comes to the "doll interest VS love interest" situation, so to speak. The guy I have a crush on is rather... effeminate and yet the current doll I have my eyes set on is a beefy Iplehouse SID xD

 

Hahaha reading all of these comments is interesting. It's all personal preference. I read/watch TONS of yaoi ^^; but I still don't really like the girly looking boys. Personally, I think it's a bit odd when straight girls fall in love with a yaoi character/doll that is basically just a flat chested girl. XD I'm not judging but just like in real life I'd like my guys to look like guys and not have to second-guess it. Not that I don't dig a guy in eyeliner and semi-long hair, but I won't ever be putting my Sol in a dress! It would creep me out! (Yes, I think he's a sexy doll. No, I don't want 'datass', he is like my child!)

Anyway, the 'beautiful boys' are still cute I'd just never own one myself.


As for yaoi dolls, I'd probably enjoy making a couple but they'd both be handsome/similar height. No generic seme-uke theme there!

 

Well I'm not really into the masculine boy bjds and my opinion is that if girls are allowed to be tomboys (like myself) boys can be girly. Why not? Second reason would be that I like Visual-kei and Oshare-kei xD I guess . All those stereotypes are boring and sometimes annoying.

 

All I can say is that I am in love with Gackt Camui (if you don't know who he is, look him up on youtube), and so I am used to the male bjds having a more feminine look.

 

I really love my "girly-looking boys", I have a ton of girl mods, I admit but it's not really about them looking like women to me. What I look for in my boys is smooth lines, delicate hands, long limbs. Some are long and lean, some are short and curvy and while I won't say I dislike "masculine" molds and bodies, I do find harsh lines and very intense sculpting to be unattractive. I want to like quite a few very muscled, distinctively male dolls but I just am not into how boxy they can seem in my eyes. Manly men are beautiful, pretty men are beautiful, even odd looking men can be beautiful to me, so I suppose I'm no help.

 

I love Gackt's look as well - he has that pretty-boy look while still very masculine (he cosplays samurai a LOT & looks fantastic when he does). I heard somewhere that Tito Kubo based Byakuya in part on Gackt which may be nonsense but makes a LOT of sense (Gackt as Byakuya - ~sigh~)

 

Miyavi, Mana, Takeru. Nothing more ^^

 

My only boy's pretty, but not overly so. He kinda looks like Heather from Silent Hill 3 (Migidoll Owen). I do like androgyny in both men and women, though. I don't see myself owning any really manly dollies. To me, it would be awkward. But I feel the same about womanly dolls too, although unlike muscles I love hourglass figures. Companies like Iplehouse make beautiful representations of that, but I've never been able to bring myself to buy one.

 

I was just looking for the thread on Art Bodies and saw this one. I only have one boy. A DIM Ace. I absolutely love him!! I find that when I am researching dolls and drooling over pics on web sites I am drawn to the boys. Not even realizing they are boys at first until I read on.

Here is my boy. I hope I can post his pic here.

 

not really into pretty boys. i mean, in dolls i like them for their scuplts and whatnot, but it is definatly not the same as my tastes in men.

 

I sometimes crossdress my boys simply because I don't like girl dolls and I don't want to have one. But even though I put feminine outfits on them I don't think they are gay or girlish. They are always masculine to me, even though in feminine clothes. I like watching them wearing these beautiful dresses because that makes them look pretty and thus makes me happy.

 

Like what everyone else said, it's mostly in the anime/manga sub fanbase with the love for bishonen's. I am a manga fan, but even before I got in to it I loved "feminine" boys. It's a weird thing to exlain. A lot of it can also deal with sexual preferences or gender identity being displayed through the dolls. Sometimes doll owners like to express things they won't always express in real life through their dolls. They can also live out some of their own desires through their dolls.