I wouldn't put it that way, but Lymond is extraordinarily good-looking and so extremely intelligent and capable that the author has to burden him with horrendous challenges so that there's any chance of a plot.
On the other hand (and unlike many supernormal stimuli for women), he's reliably benevolent, at least as far as I remember.
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