Attractiveness Male Models in Adolescence

Hegemonic masculinity persists in our societies through different mechanisms. Gender violence is one such example and it is manifested in various areas of daily life. Several contributions to the study of masculinities and sexual relationships are deterministic and do not go depth into the social causes of this violence. In this article we will showevidences of how attractiveness male models have a social nature. In that sense, these socialization processes that link desire to aggressiveness and violence explain the persistence of this social problem. Co-educational approaches should take evidence from this research line into account in order to provide responses that overcome the negative effects of hegemonic masculinity.