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It’s not easy being a hot piece of beautiful man these days.

While you may rather be known for your business prowess, theatrical artistry or philanthropic spirit, women – being the animalistic, sex-crazed creatures they are – just can’t help but stare at your abs and swoon over your lush mane of pretty boy hair.

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Take poor Ryan Gosling, for instance. The actor will forever be haunted by viral photos of his chiseled six-pack. And then there’s Channing Tatum. The Magic Mike star may never recover from the degradation he experienced playing a drool-worthy stripper in not just one, but two films.

Game of Thrones heartthrob Kit Harington knows the pain. In a recent interview with Page Six he declared that enough was enough: “To always be put on a pedestal as a hunk is slightly demeaning,” he complained. “It’s not just men that can be inappropriate sexually; women can as well. I’m in a successful TV show in a kind of leading-man way, and it can sometimes feel like your art is being put to one side for your sex appeal. And I don’t like that.”