Women also have porn issues. For women, it's trashy romance novels, and fantasies of aristocrats and wealthy handsome billionaires (note the popularity of the "50 Shades of Grey" series) swooning over them.
Women's porn creates issues with women in the 50th percentile thinking that guys in the 90+ percentile of desirability will marry them. The ultra-desirable guys may date them (in exchange for no-strings sex on evenings when a more-desirable girl is unavailable), but outside such booty calls there is little interest.
Meanwhile the average woman will ignore the good men around them.
You nailed it. Forty years ago, when I was in college, we used to have this same discussion. We reached the same conclusion as you have stated... The dates on the calendar may change, but people don’t.
It works both ways.
I am shocked at the number of guys who are less than average across the board, who seem to think they deserve supermodels for girlfriends or wives.
Or that they really think some girl who could get any guy she wanted would even give them a second look.