Originally Posted by
DQDrake
Yeah, Howard Conan material would be readily labeled "toxic masculinity" today. Conan kills when he's pissed off, screws when he's horny and generally does what a lot of guys would do if they were roaming such a world as his. I remember reading one book where a village hired him to kill a giant tarantula or bear or something (I can't remember exactly because I read so many of those books when I was a teen) and as part of his compensation, he got to spend two nights with the dozen or so unmarried young women in the village... mostly because the village wanted his superior bloodline mixed with theirs. That plays right into the hormones of a male reader.