Not Quite a Scold

Chalk has a point, but Hollywood movies aren't made for just men. One might as well wish for Hollywood to stop generating so much garbage. iirc, it was the female viewers who were more dissatisfied with the "monogamous" Timothy Dalton Bond then the men. For women, Brad Pitt's character can get away with showing restraint because he's Brad Pitt. Hollywood isn't going to ignore female purchasing power, and what they desire in an alpha, and what they want is an alpha hero who is capable of attracting many women, even if he doesn't bed them all.

Soldiers in an actual war also will make use of the services of prostitutes because apparently the sexual impulse becomes even stronger in the face of death. If soldiers, then why not Bond, who knows he is expendable while he serves in Her Majesty's secret service? This was probably true of the Roman army, too, and if not with the women in the camp followers, then prostitutes in town.

Christians can make movies about stoic or Christian men (like A Hidden Life) but these will not have wide-scale appeal. Movies like Ford v. Ferrari, in which Christian Bale plays a good dad and maybe good husband, are the best social conservatives can hope for. There is no movie about heroic single men who also resist "sexual temptation" that will be satisfactory to both social conservatives and those who have the Red Pill.

AmConMag: The Horny Hero in American Film by Casey Chalk
It’s time for Hollywood to champion better male heroes.

James Bond's casual womanizing is neither realistic nor heroic. https://t.co/4CiNK4NwPA

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) May 19, 2020