Considering that the aliens generally don’t try to ravish the captive woman, I’d suggest an alternative hypothesis: the alien carries off the woman for non-sexual reasons, and the torn clothes and the way the woman is drawn are only there to make her look attractive to the audience (and perhaps to give the human rescuers more of a motivation to rescue her), not to indicate the motivation of the alien.
And more women than men are carried off because 1) that’s what the writer chooses to write (or what the artist chooses to draw, if the story has scenes where aliens carry off both sexes), and 2) women in such stories tend to be bad at defending themselves, excessively curious, and other traits which make capture more likely.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon’s interest was sexual, of course, but the creature is related to humans and is not a typical case of an alien carrying women off.
Considering that the aliens generally don’t try to ravish the captive woman, I’d suggest an alternative hypothesis: the alien carries off the woman for non-sexual reasons, and the torn clothes and the way the woman is drawn are only there to make her look attractive to the audience (and perhaps to give the human rescuers more of a motivation to rescue her), not to indicate the motivation of the alien.
And more women than men are carried off because 1) that’s what the writer chooses to write (or what the artist chooses to draw, if the story has scenes where aliens carry off both sexes), and 2) women in such stories tend to be bad at defending themselves, excessively curious, and other traits which make capture more likely.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon’s interest was sexual, of course, but the creature is related to humans and is not a typical case of an alien carrying women off.