Ladies: Which male physique do you prefer?

Number 11 is easily my favorite one.

For what it’s worth, my least favorite is number 6. He looks like he has a disease.

As I already pointed out, 1, 10 and 11 are photos of the same person during what I assume are different stages of a workout program.

“Yes please and may I have a side of whipped cream with that”: 6 and 7 (those who have noted that #7 may look skinnier IRL b/c of lighting: not a problem).

Perfectly nice: 3-5

Meh: 0-2 and 8-9

<runs away>: 10-13

PS: Is there any way to get the results of the poll? Or will you post them at some point?

7, please. fans self

But I agree with PunditLisa, the only unacceptable ones are the last two.

I can’t speak for all women, but I think that extremely muscular men are unattractive. The last two guys in the OP’s lineup, and the ones you linked to, are beyond unattractive, they are positively repulsive. I won’t be getting close enough to them to cuddle them. Or have sex with them.

Hugging my nephews is like hugging trees. They’re perfectly nice guys, and not pumped up, but they have done hard physical work all their lives, even as kids. They have some muscle mass to them, and no fat at all. I guess at least one of them does have some cuddle capability, though, because he’s married and his wife snuggles on him sometimes at family gatherings.

IMO, it’s the bulging veins on so many of them that make them unnattractive. I have no problem with the muscles, really, though the waxed look isn’t my cup of tea either, though.

I also don’t like the ones that are so muscular they look like they have trouble moving. Then again, I wouldn’t want someone so overweight that they looked like they had trouble moving, either.

For me, the reason I’d choose one of the chubbier guys to cuddle is because I really do prefer personality over looks (looks are nice too, of course). That’s not to say I think the chubby guys are nicer or better people than the cut guys, but since I really hate playing relationships games, I’d rather have a guy who’s closer to me looks-wise (I’m average looking and not terribly svelte). I’ve also found it to be true (not universally, of course, but often enough that I don’t think it’s a complete aberration) that folks who aren’t classically gorgeous tend to spend more time developing their other assets (personality, hobbies, etc.) and I find that much more interesting than “OMG! He’s gorgeous!”

I’m sure drop-dead gorgeous people with fascinating personalities exist–there are probably a lot of them out there. But most of them are probably out of my league, and that’s fine. I’ll take my geeky spouse (who looks just great to me, thanks, and actually does work out some) over the lot of them. :slight_smile:

Agreed! If their face is ugly, I’m not going to want the body attached to it* - a great-looking face is going to make up for a guy I’d normally find too skinny/fat, etc.
*yes, including for purely lustful purposes - you still have to look at their face!

swims over to the shallow end of the pool with Boscibo
And the arms…sigh

I didn’t plan on collecting any information from the people here, but I did just enable it to display the result of the poll on the album page (http://dgrdfd.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album01) It’s pretty interesting. Disgusting bodybuilder guys were at the bottom. Followed by concentration camp skinny guy. Then you had the 5 to the left of too thin dude. Then you had the remaining 5 to the right of the thin dude finishing out the top.

If we had hundreds or thousands of people participating (and I would have selected my pictures much more carefully), it would have really been interesting to do some statistical analysis involving which body type the woman preferred, their age, their relationship status, where their body type would fall on a corresponding slide show of women, etc. That would be very interesting, but more a masters thesis or something. :slight_smile:

7, 4, 3, 5 in that order.

I’m glad there are some women out there who like chubby guys. As a liker of chubby women, I was starting to wonder whether I was a freak.

0 through 3 would be my preference; I don’t care for muscled guys, I find them too … I dunno, inaccessible, jagged, that sort of thing. Of those, I’d say 1 first, then 0. A bit of a pooch makes me think the guy is friendlier and more cuddly, somehow. This goes for both the ‘long term relationship’ and ‘admire from afar’ categories. I just don’t dig the muscles.

The last few are just horrifying to me. Interesting as a body modification, but in no way physically attractive.

Edited to add: I don’t mind skinny guys if they’re less physically developed. It’s not about the chubbiness, though I don’t mind chubbiness: it’s about lack of big bulging body lumps.

I don’t - I have enough muscle myself to know it’s not true. But then, I’m not one of the ones who think #__ is hot and #__ is cuddily.

Ditto. Again, I don’t like a lot of bulging muscles, not really my type. I prefer nice cut definition in a somewhat slender body (reference some male gymnasts, acrobats, capoeiristas, and #7).

And I do like some definition. I’m fluffy and soft, I want something more tense and strong to touch and feel!

Same here.

My least favorites were the two last muscle-bound guys and number 6, the one who looks as though he’s about to collapse from weakness.