I consider you much more reasonable than most here so I’ll ask you this lol, because it seems odd to me to think of it as “criminal”.
Sex symbols have long shaped what our culture found attractive. There have always been external forces, often the media that drove the sexual interests of the masses.
Also often, people who did not grow up in a time period look back and think “damn I can’t believe people used to think that was hot”.
So I guess the question is, given that marketing has almost always dictated in part, human sexuality; is it wrong now because the view of being gay is an inherently bad thing to some, instead of just not being your thing?
Like I’m not any more into Kardashians lumpy ass than I am another man’s ass. Neither are my thing, but I kinda see them as the same thing ya know?