Why are women in traditional fields seen as sex symbols?

Question

Such as secretaries, teachers and nurses.

Maybe sexual fantasies is a better term than sex symbols....

I see you have a Japanese fantasy Mr. E

Haha! Me either Tara, that's why I asked it.

Answer 1

Put a woman in any field, and she'll be seen as a sex symbol.

However, these are traditionally caregiver and catering-type jobs. So it may be a fantasy about someone catering to them or taking care of them in some way. Also, the teacher role is kind of a way for the man to be submissive.

Answer 2

It's the uniform.

If you took a picture of a woman wearing a miniskirt suit with glasses & placed it in a "secretary" costume box...

You'd be able to use the same picture for the "female CEO" costume box.

Men that dig the look, will continue to dig the look.

Men are visual. End of story.

The uniforms of the "traditional" fields also involved a skirt & a feminine look.

Men like that.

"non" traditional fields are those that were male dominated thus the uniform would be that from a man's wardrobe.

It shouldn't surprise you that men are more attracted to a female wearing a skirt & a low cut shirt than a pair of pants & a nice tie.

Answer 3

How exactly are they "sexy"? Most women I've seen working in those fields are older and often overweight. I've even heard that the majority of nurses are over the age of 40 because of job burnout and fewer younger women choosing nursing as a career choice.

Answer 4

Good question...hmm....times are changing though, and now women who in more non-traditional roles such as cops and lion tamers and heavy metal guitar players are often seen as objects of sexual fantasies.

What does this mean? Who knows. Not sure I want to contemplate it.

Answer 5

women do not try to be attractive. They try to be quite, amazing, and captivating. attractive and captivating are very different. attractive, such as you pronounced, supplies off the image as a intercourse image - yet purely bieng quite does not fairly supply on a picture. attractive is what you do on particular activities, quite is what you do another day. so as that they get ticked off once you notice them as "intercourse Symbols" through fact adult adult males act like they attempt to gown attractive common. yet they don't...they attempt to look good common. that is kind of a male. you do not gown in tuxedos or in fairly beneficial clothing each and all the time. women do not placed on dermis tight clothing or low decrease skirts each and all the time the two.

Answer 6

You're right. Maybe because men finds sexy the clothes that some women uses for their work, and it wake up fantasies.

Answer 7

I think it's the same for men--firemen, doctors, cops.

I have a thing for all pizza guys...

Answer 8

Because most of them are women. There are firefighters that are women, but its not often used because most firefighters are men and you don't see them as often. Its not that if you are a secratary, you are sexy. Its just a fantasy. What if secretaries were sexy? Oh, man, let's think about it - that sort of thing. You don't do that for firefighters because they're men so you don't as readily think of sex.

On the other hand, heh, I can direct you to a few sites that like sexy firewomen. :P

Answer 9

They also have stripper costumes for policewomen, and lady executives, not secretaries. I think they are not sex symbols. Their just leftovers in the costume world, and the designers are not too clever. I always dress-up as catwoman......

Answer 10

What about housewife -- that's a traditional field and about as un-sexy as it gets.