I'm attracted to men who have coherent, intelligent, mature, fully-formed thoughts, opinions, and topics of conversation.

I expected you to veto this entire thread Illumina. Besides that you are right - physical attraction is a minor thing. I think you deliberately overlook it a bit to make a point, but it is not my place to tell.

EDIT: Read Timbers elaboration below. Essentially I meant that there are so many attractive women around that physical attraction cannot be the most important criteria. Finding a woman who you feel compatible with is much much harder. I have yet to succeed myself. That is what I meant by "minor".

[ 09-16-2005, 06:54 PM: Message edited by: mad=dog ]

Intellectual attraction is a thing, but not the only thing. I feel I've found my soul mate -- but had I not been attracted to her, she would not have been my soul mate. Heck, she wouldn't have even gotten the chance.

I know that many women differ, and I realize some men may differ, but if guys are honest you will discover that some physical attraction is *key* for most of us -- certainly not a "minor thing." We may like mature thoughts and refined conversation, but we don't want to bed them.

[ 09-16-2005, 06:32 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

Weren't most people supposed to vote for the "whatever me mum looks/looked like" option?
Oh, that's missing too.

I agree with Timber, physical attraction is THE most important thing for 99 out of a 100 guys.

A certain Eddie Murphy quote comes to mind. "A girl HAS to be funny, but she must also be goodlooking....you don't wanna bone no funny ugly biatch". :D

Perhaps my true intent was too thinly veiled. Let me try again.

I also find people who know that interrogative sentences end with question marks attractive.

*smoothes eyebrows back, grooves the length of the dance floor over to the bar, buys the pedantic one a triple of steggle-opener, leans forward and:*

"Hello lovely. Wanna shake that thing on the floor with me?" :D :D

lol

While I didn't vote in the poll because it's um, not good [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/angel.gif[/img] , I agree with Timber that while physical attraction isn't everything, it isn't nothing either. I recently went out with a guy who I have a lot in common with, had had good conversations with, and who really should have totally been 'my type', but I wasn't physically attracted to him at all. He wasn't ugly (although he did have bad hair - there's no excuse for that! [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img] ) but I had no sexual interest in him whatsoever and couldn't see that changing - so I didn't go out with him again.

I don't think I could say exactly who I'm attracted to because it's such a subjective and individual thing - if there were two guys with similar macro characteristics I could be easily be attracted to one and not the other. There are some things that I've always not been a fan of - like chin dimples - but then again, on certain guys they can look very cool.

Point taken. Despite my efforts there are still some errors I continuously make in English. That is one of them. Among the others are a weird tendency to mix up "where" and "were" and spelling "dg" as "gd". As I am pretty good at English this is obviously quite scarring. I'm trying to rectify the problem, but perhaps I am not trying hard enough?