On late ’90s and you can early aughts, before Tumblr and other social media sites became havens for all visions out of sex and you may terms out-of bodies, it can had been simple to genuinely believe that gender is strictly the purview regarding conventionally attractive, narrow, young straight men. To the MTV age bracket, like is actually brand new award for being hot and you will hetero.

Movie and television reinforced which content (“The new Bachelor” and you will “Significant Transformation” got it to your extreme), but very did sounds. It was the fresh time you to definitely offered all of us Akinyele’s “Put it on the Throat” and you can Khia’s “My Shoulder, My Right back,” put-out on half a dozen ages apart, toward Nas and you will Bravehearts’ “Oochie Wally” rising around.