# Is this picture sexy to you and if so.... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446 "2020-04-09T17:22:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/21 "2020-04-09T21:23:32Z")
Actually repelling to me. Hate the eye make-up. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/22 "2020-04-09T21:56:02Z")
Thank you everyone for the responses! I guess the only conclusion i can draw is that I’m a freak by SD standards! Edit: I want to point out in case this runs into a mod saying “You’re not doing a Hot or Not thread are you?” I was really wanting to discuss Western subtle body language generally found to be sexy and the biological reasons someone might find them so…but beauty being in the eye of the beholder reallllly seems to be a much higher factor then I thought. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/23 "2020-04-09T22:26:30Z")
Indeed. She looks threatening to me; as if she might stab anybody who came too close. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/24 "2020-04-09T22:28:44Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Indeed. She looks threatening to me; as if she might stab anybody who came too close. Ha! So i guess you don’t think Aubrey Plaza is sexy either! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/25 "2020-04-09T22:38:12Z")
Speaking as someone that can appreciate a good vintage/retro look, that image really doesn’t do much for me. She’s not unattractive but that picture isn’t exceptional. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/26 "2020-04-09T22:38:25Z")
I think she’s kinda cute, but I’ve always preferred Katie Pierson, especially in R.E.M’s video for [Shiny Happy People.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOKMUTTDdA) ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/27 "2020-04-09T22:41:25Z")
That hair and eyeliner is too much like Myra Hindley ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/28 "2020-04-09T22:46:46Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Speaking as someone that can appreciate a good vintage/retro look, that image really doesn’t do much for me. She’s not unattractive but that picture isn’t exceptional. Is [this](https://i.redd.it/n7ehb3m4v5701.jpg) any better? _I_ don’t think its particularly different but maybe its less ‘threatening’ ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/29 "2020-04-09T22:48:44Z")
I don’t think she was trying to be sexy in that pic. So the question seems rather odd to me. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/30 "2020-04-09T23:00:49Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Is [this](https://i.redd.it/n7ehb3m4v5701.jpg) any better? > > _I_ don’t think its particularly different but maybe its less ‘threatening’ Yes, quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/31 "2020-04-09T23:06:58Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Is [this](https://i.redd.it/n7ehb3m4v5701.jpg) any better? > > _I_ don’t think its particularly different but maybe its less ‘threatening’ Actually, yes. I do prefer the second picture but I didn’t interpret the first picture as threatening at all and I’m kinda into threatening women! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/32 "2020-04-09T23:10:43Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > She’s really in a form of drag, (yes, even women can dress in drag). > [@markn\_1](#): > > [Here’s a photo](https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/close-photo-portrait-half-turned-260nw-1379640563.jpg) of a woman in almost the same post which I do find sexy. Good point in that this is an exaggerated stage look – and how the gesture itself when not taken over-the-top can be a more conventionally “sexy” look. But what’s in the OP picture is a deliberately overblown caricature of some “sexy” style tropes for purposes of the show. And yes, **DrDeth** , Amber could really work the look of the mid-80s. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/33 "2020-04-09T23:12:53Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Actually, yes. I do prefer the second picture but I didn’t interpret the first picture as threatening at all and I’m kinda into threatening women! 😃 To clarify…I’m into women that are a little threatening, I’m not into threatening women. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/34 "2020-04-10T00:09:11Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I greyscaled the pic, cropped out the hair, and softened it a touch. [Does it help anyone?](https://imgur.com/ylH9o3I) Not I. There’s still something in her eyes that wants to kill me. > [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Is [this](https://i.redd.it/n7ehb3m4v5701.jpg) any better?’ That actually IS a little more to my tastes. But take a look at her [with a more relaxed expression.](https://www.letras.com/cindy-wilson/fotos.html#275317) That’s “attractive,” “sexy,” “appealing” or any other positive adjective you want to apply. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/35 "2020-04-10T00:32:32Z")
Not my preferred gender, but even if she were… not at all. She’s no Simon Helberg. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/36 "2020-04-10T01:05:46Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > … > > But take a look at her [with a more relaxed expression.](https://www.letras.com/cindy-wilson/fotos.html#275317) That’s “attractive,” “sexy,” “appealing” or any other positive adjective you want to apply. Yes, attractive and friendly. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/37 "2020-04-10T01:14:14Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > That hair and eyeliner is too much like Myra Hindley Yep. Indeed compare it to [this iconic (at least in the UK)](https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE5NTU2MzE2MDE3MDM0NzYz/myra-hindley-229551-1-402.jpg) photo of Hindley, it’s almost like the OP’s photo is intentionally referencing it. And if you don’t know who Hindley is [here’s the very depressing details.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders) From what I gather, she holds the role in British culture that Manson held in American culture. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/38 "2020-04-10T01:51:33Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Thank you everyone for the responses! > > I guess the only conclusion i can draw is that I’m a freak by SD standards! > > Edit: I want to point out in case this runs into a mod saying “You’re not doing a Hot or Not thread are you?” I was really wanting to discuss Western subtle body language generally found to be sexy and the biological reasons someone might find them so…but beauty being in the eye of the beholder reallllly seems to be a much higher factor then I thought. Since you ask: I thing the rouge goes to far back to be sexy. It looks like a mask, not like she’s blushed. And the makeup and pose emphasizes the whites of her eyes, rather than making her pupils look large. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/39 "2020-04-10T02:20:38Z")
Only in the sense that her pose is submissive. With her head tilted another way, she might appear to be just the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446/40 "2020-04-10T02:32:09Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Only in the sense that her pose is submissive. With her head tilted another way, she might appear to be just the opposite. So tying into the intent of the thread, a head-tilt can be construed as sexy body language because its submissive? Interesting. The biological component also may be conflated with a learned one. Just now when i tilted my head to get some kind of idea of “Does this feel submissive, or sexy”…I instinctively wanted to lower my glasses. Now there’s a definite sexual body language move. Tilting your head down and lowering your glasses says, “I see you and I’m trying to get a better look.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-sexy-to-you-and-if-so/851446.md?page=3)