Sadly the effort and energy to be desired and to desire, and flip the genderized roles around, requires "a lot" of effort.
I agree with you the payback is tremendous, but folks now are so used to not knowing that no it is not normal to have a mcdonald's burger to be considered haute cuisine.
My partner works in a dangerous thing (horses) and you know with life you just never know.
I would loathe being back in the pool, but on the flip side by being educated. I also realize the work I have done to add layers, is a good things as a man.
The problem though is with a lot of women like Africans starving in a desert, one can't feed them a Morton's Steakhouse meal when all they can stomach is small doses of masculinity rice ...
We all deserve better ...