I'm constantly amazed at the young men my 21 year old daughter finds attractive---feminine, "pretty" boys, with thin, lithe bodies who wear dangling earings, wax their eyebrows and shave their legs. I swear they even try to raise the octave of their voices. The ideal for young women appears to be about the same (it just appears slightly more masculine on the female)with the only difference being impossibly large breasts.
If the show American Idol is any indication, there's a frightening dearth of masculine men below the age of 24 or 25. I watched the first half an hour of it on Tuesday, and every single male I saw was effeminate, most to drag queen levels.Of course the show American Idol isn't an idication at all, but it is interesting that this is the "ideal" TV wants to push on us.