Does anybody really think David Beckham is as sexy as TV commercials insist he is?

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I’m not sure if this thread belongs here, or the BBQ Pit or IMHO, but since it’s about a celeb, I guess I’ll start it here and the mods can move it if they so desire. Anyway…

On the train home, I was leafing through a weeks-old copy of Details, and David Beckham is in an ad, shirtless and wearing just a speedo. Then at home, while watching some TV, I see an ad that I can’t even remember what it was for, just that it ended with Beckham again minus all clothes but a speedo, in front of a whole busload of ogling females. It occurred to me that David Beckham has created quite a career out of appearing in ads and commercials, the gist of every single spot I can recall being how ALL women turn into giggling, leering, teenybopper adolescent crushers in the presence of the almighty Beckham. His sex appeal is so incredibly irresistible that women will instantly forget their boyfriends, and join into a mad gyno-herd to just drool and gape at Beckham’s amazingly hot sexiness.

Well I’m not a woman, I’m a gay man. But frankly, I just don’t think Beckham is all that sexy. Make no mistake, he does have an impressive gym body, that i can admire in an aesthetic way - I’d love to have abs like his. And yet still, I don’t lust after him at all. In fact, the whole shtick about Beckham supposedly being some Olympian sex god actually makes him look a little more unattractive to me - he just doesn’t measure up to the image that the advertising world has built around him.

Offhand, I can point out a few concrete things I don’t like about him. For one thing, he has these somewhat (for lack of a better word) recessed eyes. I know this is a little bit of an odd pecadillo of mine, but I don’t like guys (or women FTM) with sunken eyes. Compare him to someone like George Clooney whose eyes just sparkle, and shine; Beckham just looks like he’s squinting all the time.

Nor does Beckham have a particularly brilliant smile, like Tom Cruise or Matt Damon. And the solid wall of tattoos over his arm seems a little over the top. IRL, the guys I’ve met with massive amounts of tattoos always have a bit of a complex about it; they seem to be showing off how manly they are. Bottom line is, he just lacks charisma. He doesn’t (as Rudyard Kipling would say) have it.

As I said above, David Beckham does have a good looking body, but at least a dozen guys at the gym I go to have just as impressive bodies as him, never mind Hollywood. Yet the ad industry seems to insist that Beckham is some once-in-a-lifetime sex symbol that stops traffic everywhere he goes. I probably wouldn’t look twice at him if he walked by me on the street. Why does the ad industry want to persistently push him on the public like he’s something special?

Anyway, that’s all my opinion, of course. Maybe it is just that he doesn’t appeal to me, and that he does have legions of slobbering, breathless fans. I’m just a little curious about what the Teeming Millions have to say about the subject.

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God no, blegh.

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no. he has tattoos

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Those are a lot of words about David Beckham. TL/DR.

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Beckham is ruggedly handsome and has an almost perfect body, but in seeing him pimping various products in magazines like Vanity Fair using his body as the prime focus he seemed almost asexual. It was generally my thought that his overall look probably appealed to the gay aesthetic sensibilities of creative types in advertising.

That’s why it’s interesting to hear your comment as a gay man not impressed by him of how off base my impression was.

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Anyone who is at all good looking can be pushed as The Hottest Thing, posing in carefully lit photographs looking all sullen and sultry. Once they finish, he puts on his pants and goes home, I’m sure the magic is over. I doubt admirers swoon with longing as he slithers on by out to his limo. I may be all wrong, but the real person is one thing, and a sexy posed picture is another. Besides, I just loathe that grim looking stick insect he insists on remaining married to, she gives me the creeps! The two of them, side by side, at public events like ‘look at us, peons, gaze upon the ultimate in cool sexxy beauty’. Hurrrrlll.

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I see how he’s got an attractive face and a very fit body. But if I were going to be gay for a day, I’d go with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Seems like a cool dude.

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I know he’s no dummy, but his accent is lower class, and I guess I’m a snob and it’s a turn off. It’s surprising given his wife and pals (Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) are definitely “posh”

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Sure he’s beautiful, and I think he’s taking his cues about modeling from his wife. All those angles and shadows are aesthetically pleasing, but so chilly. And he seems like he’d be no fun at all, and that knocks the shine right off.

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He’s one handsome devil in photographs, wow. My only other exposure to him is via the GoFugyourself.com links to paparazzi pictures of him carrying his baby girl, in which his good dad vibes make him vaguely sexy. But I’ve never heard him speak or seen him in motion, so I can’t speak to his general sex appeal.

Useless comment, I know, but I just had to mention his beautiful face. Dude is gorgeous.

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Smoking body, lovely placement and style of tattoos, not so hot face, but not horrid.

9/10 for me.

I’d still rather look at Jason Statham with *his *shirt off. Rowr. Divine body, super-cute face, and drop-dead-gorgeous eyes. Yes please.

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If Victoria Beckham is “posh” I’m the Queen of Sheba.

Her dad did make a lot of money when he went into business but she still went to a bog standard comprehensive in Cheshunt, and after that, indulged by her parents, stage schools.

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I think he’s perfectly good looking (and obviously very athletic) but it always takes me moment to recognize him as David Beckham because his ads always look so generic to me.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that as a person, he has a completely pleasant personality (and hey, when he’s been on Sesame Street he always seems nice although not particularly exciting). However, as a model, he doesn’t seem to have any on-camera personality or spark at all.

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It may be partly a British thing, because he used to be a peerless Captain of the England football team which makes him a god even if he was butt ugly, but I can’t think of any woman I know who wouldn’t. And half my friends are lesbians. Including me. And I would.

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I’ve heard woman say he’s nice to look at but prefer he doesn’t open his mouth to spoil their fantasy. In their fantasy he has great teeth and sounds like Jason Stathem. The reality is far from it.

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Yes. I’d do him in a heartbeat.

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I can’t see the Jason Statham love at all. I find him repulsive. But maybe, being a gay woman, he’s just too butch for me. Meat heads are a total turn off.

Beckham strikes me as a bit camp, so maybe the androgyny appeals.

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I find him delicious.

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He’s nice-looking enough, but I confess to being turned off by over-exposure. He seems like an attention whore, and since he doesn’t really do much in the way of actually, you know, PLAYING FOOTBALL, these days, he’s kind of entered the “famous for being famous” club alongside Paris Hilton et al. Bleh.

Oh yea, and he cheated on his wife. Yuck.

I do not get the warm fuzzies for that guy.