First published in 2017. A story of female desire, imagination and fantasy. This book looks at men through the eyes of women, and the emergence of women as desiring subjects. What women have found attractive in men? What were the visions of maleness? Are women's desires different from men's? How far have their needs and wants been shaped or blocked by history? Have patterns of romance and fantasy changed in the nineteenth and twentieth century? Which real and imagined men inspired dreams, passions, and obsessions in women? A cultural history of hearttrobs and icons of masculinity: romantic leads in literature, film stars, musicians and singers, the alpha male hero and romantic prototypes in magazines, television and films, boy-bands, and pretty-boy vampires.