Yep, yep, yep. My husband is a firefighter.
Eat your heart out, fessie. 
I think that’s a bit of an overreaction. Nobody has any problem with a little harmless flirting by either sex.
It’s women who label women as sluts, not men. Don’t drag us into that quagmire.
Interestingly enough, it was just about this time three years ago when there were several threads going on about how the brave and glorious ladies of the SDMB were glued to their TV sets so they could see all those rescue workers in New York. Sort of a group-support thing, in which they admitted to a fair amount of guilty pleasure. There was one picture online of a fireman walking out of a building carrying a baby, and I swear I could hear the squealing through my LAN cable…
Please tell me that includes the gay guys, too, at least a little bit…
All of that’s not quite true anymore, since many people are now apt to wonder if an older single man is gay. And sometimes a man who sleeps around is considered a philanderer.
All that aside, I get the big-strong-heroic angle; I can see why that’s attractive. But the grunge and grime? I don’t get that. I will continue to work at my clean, inside job, and take showers every morning. 
Well-pressed and clean-shaven has its appeal too, especially when glasses are involved. Hot 'n sweaty’s just a different kind of treat. Especially when combined with that particular lifeanddeath swagger.
But was he married?
And lots of people here talk about encountering likely prospects according to their sexual preferences, but it’s usually like, “I’ve met this person, help me work up the courage to talk to him or her” or something like that. That’s different from just anonymously drooling over a relative stranger. Not that we don’t all do it, from time to time, but is it always appropriate to talk about it?
If you can show me a thread where someone said he’d gone to – oh, I don’t know, let’s say Spring break, or Rio de Janeiro–and drooled on for some length about the thong bikini babes, then I will accept that in substantiation of your statement.
Oh pffffffffffffffft.
You mean the “How cute is Paris Hilton,” “What’s the appeal of Angie Dickenson,” “Men: Do you like brown skin?” kind of threads? We get threads like that all the time.
My first BF was a fireman. An ex-paratrooper, fireman. :o
So yeah, some of them are looking.
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No-one ever start threads like this about male nurses… 
Honestly, grimey turns some people on?
Don’t despair Silentgoldfish. The female doctors whom I know certainly check out the male nurses in their respective hospitals.
So do the female nurses! Its just that the instance where the male nurse takes off his sweaty shirt and wipes his dripping face with it are so rare.
The “do you like brown skin” was started by a brown-skinned female, IIRC, so you can’t use that one. It’s entrapment!
I didn’t read the other two, but it reminds me of the Sharapova vs Kournikova thread, where several women joined in to say that it was annoying to them the attention that those tennis players receive from men.
My reply to that thread would have been better had I just linked to this thread, but of course this thread didn’t exist at the time. The only good point I made is that drooling over Kournikova was no different than drooling over Brad Pitt. Neither have won majors/oscars, neither is the best in their field. But both receive extra attention because of their looks.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Just like there is nothing wrong with drooling over firemen. Shame on the guy in this thread for taking the ladies to task. You should have said nothing, and simply linked to this thread the next time you noticed women complaining about this behavior in a guy thread.
My apologies for the interruption, please resume drooling.
I think the lot of you should stop pooing all over fessie’s thread. Take it to the Pit or something.
/wanted to be a firefighter.
But, you’re in a band!
That’s got to get you some drooling womens.
I realy like it when the male nurses wear those really high mini skirts and the top of the shirt is buttoned really low.
Ooh baby - yowza!
Never visit my hometown. The fire department is made upof mostly 40+ year old men, all with beer guts, several balding. Yes, there are some 20-35 year old firemen, but they make up maybe at best 25%.
(The above information is 100% accurate. My dad is the chief of the department, and I have several uncles, cousins, and a brother in the department as well. I think I might get disowned if I don’t join a fire company out here in the next year…)
[hijack]Funny thing is, I think my Hubby is plenty attractive in that brainiac way - and even has some fireman potential (he’s got the right build). But his teenage social life was abysmal so he’s never felt good-looking. However, back when Who Wants to be a Millionaire first hit it big, The Alumni Club bar had a big trivia game. Which Hubby almost won, I think he came in second, he’s very good at trivia games & quite sexy in his confidence while playing them. Afterwards there was this chick hanging around him, absolutely drooling. A trivia groupie! Like that Seinfeld with George’s hand modeling.[/hijack]
Oh, and I’ve decided NOT to report the idiot neighbors in the next building who keep barbecuing on their 2nd floor patio - that way, next time I can get pix 
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I think I need to go get our car seats checked, just to, ya know, make sure they’re installed right & everything…
I think male nurses are sexy too. The idea that a big burly man, can be gentle and caring, giving sponge baths when needed, oooooo - stop! That’s also why I think men who like animals are sexy, have you ever seen a big burly man talk to and pet a cat or dog - man, that makes me weak at the knees.