# Ladies: Which male physique would you prefer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742 "2007-06-28T07:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/41 "2007-06-28T18:26:42Z")
I like 11 the best, the rest are blah, 7 is okay too but a little bulky on the arms. I like the look of not obvious weight lifting but more of a swimmers surfers body. And I’m 33. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/42 "2007-06-28T18:31:03Z")
WOOOOO! ! ! I’m #1 !!! ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/43 "2007-06-28T18:45:36Z")
ah tall and lanky guys do it for me, so I guess #11, but maybe taller and thinner. That being said, the guy Im currently with looks more like 3 and no complaints there either. And Im 37. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/44 "2007-06-28T18:52:49Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Everyone will say 11, but secretly covet 7 or 10. Just look around you, and see where all the hottest women are. They’re not with fun mister surfer, they’re with asshole bodybuilder (the bigger, the better). [/QUOTE] Not around here they aren’t. And why would we lie? It’s a fantasy quiz–if I liked 7 or 10 I’d just say so. Overbulked guys look weird to me. Not interested. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/45 "2007-06-28T19:12:18Z")
Age 33. In order of preference: #2 #4 #9 #11 (you’d probably have to have a pretty thin skeletal frame to pull this one off) I truly dislike #6 and #8. Way too muscular. Now, if you want to see what I’d consider truly perfect, that would be [this](http://queerbeacon.typepad.com/queer_beacon/images/daniel_craig_shirtless_2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/46 "2007-06-28T19:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Everyone will say 11, but secretly covet 7 or 10. Just look around you, and see where all the hottest women are. They’re not with fun mister surfer, they’re with asshole bodybuilder (the bigger, the better). [/QUOTE] If they’d secretly covet 7 or 10, why not say so? This is an anonymous message board, after all. I say 11, and 11 is what I married. He doesn’t look like that now. (I’ll bet he would if I’d done the cooking, though.) ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/47 "2007-06-28T19:21:08Z")
7 and 11 are both attractive to me, in the “overall fit but not obsessive about muscle-bulking” sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/48 "2007-06-28T19:33:23Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Everyone will say 11, but secretly covet 7 or 10. Just look around you, and see where all the hottest women are. They’re not with fun mister surfer, they’re with asshole bodybuilder (the bigger, the better). [/QUOTE] Nah. My ex is kind of a cross between 7 and 10 and my current so is very much an 11 and I find him much hotter. I will say that many of the women I see with the “meat-head-bodybuilder” type tend to be the “bleached-blond-fake-tanned-silicone-breasts” type so I guess if that’s what you find attractive in a woman then bulk is what to aim for. ---
**Author:** ![50million](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/9fc348/32.png) [@50million](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/50million)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/49 "2007-06-28T19:45:13Z")
So, **dgrdfd** , now that there seems to be a consensus, what do you plan to do with the info? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/50 "2007-06-28T19:49:15Z")
I was going to say “none of the above” but then I took a closer look (“What is this 11 of which you are all speaking?”) Now I think I’ll have to go with 11. Musclebound does nothing for me - I have better things to do than spend hours in a gym, and I like my mate to spend time with me outside of the gym, too. Even skinnier than 11 would work for me, too. - featherlou, female, 40, and FABULOUS! (Well, I don’t make small children scream.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/51 "2007-06-28T19:52:43Z")
While we’re sorting the myths from the realities about what women like vs. what men _think_ women like, we don’t care about baldness, either. If you’re going bald, get a very short haircut and pretend that’s what you wanted in the first place. Women don’t care anywhere near as much as guys do. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/52 "2007-06-28T19:56:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Everyone will say 11, but secretly covet 7 or 10. Just look around you, and see where all the hottest women are. They’re not with fun mister surfer, they’re with asshole bodybuilder (the bigger, the better). [/QUOTE] Well sure they are, if you consider women who are just as gym and body-obsessed as the bodybuilders the “hottest”. And naturally these two would hang together. As for me, 11 is visually pleasing but a little too thin for my tastes from a more tactile perspective. I don’t love the musclebound thing from either a visual \*or \* tactile perspective. I like my guys beefy, but just a \*little \* soft, and definitely not covered in baby oil, unless I’ve specifically requested it. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/53 "2007-06-28T20:06:04Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] and definitely not covered in baby oil, unless I’ve specifically requested it. [/QUOTE] And what occasions warant you requesting it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/54 "2007-06-28T20:25:53Z")
Number… haha just kidding. One thing I will say is that those numbers dont seem to be a fair sample. They were all either ‘out of shape,’ ‘in great shape,’ or ‘OMG MY MUSCLEZORS!’ I think such a survey might get a better response with a wider variety of pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/55 "2007-06-28T20:42:22Z")
[QUOTE=C3] I guess I’d pick #11, but he’s even a bit too muscley for me. I’m into the pale, skinny guys, though. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ms. Pumpkin] No, no, no! I vote for #11, too, because all the others make me kinda squeamish. And while I wouldn’t classify myself among the “hottest women”, I prefer skinny or slightly chubby geek-types over fun surfers AND bodybuilders. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Litoris] #11 is my preference. I like the lean type, either dancer/swimmer/runner or just skinny. But then again, I also love a man who speaks multiple (computer) languages, if you get my drift. [/QUOTE] Where are ladies like you near me? 😃 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/56 "2007-06-28T20:49:47Z")
Can I just make a comment? (After also voting for 11?) Speaking for myself and my girlfriends, it’s hard to overstate how odd it looks when a guy literally cannot hang naturally down by his sides because he is so freakishly over-built. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 2 to a lesser extent, 6 probably if he put his arms down – that is not a natural look. I realize some of it might be posing, but some of it is also overbuilt lats and biceps. For me, I honestly like a guy who’s a little bigger than 11. Not necessarily more muscley, but I tend to date bears (non-gay-male bears, that is). But 11 looks healthy and _natural_, and a lot of those others don’t. Oily hairless 8 with his mammoth thighs is actually kind of disturbing me, and not in a good way. Healthy and built is good. “Next stop: 'Roid Rage” is not. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/57 "2007-06-28T20:50:46Z")
Amen, sisterfriend. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/58 "2007-06-28T20:52:14Z")
I’m 32. #11 looks like the guys I went gaga for in college. Now that I’m a little older, I find some heft more attractive in a man. #5-10 are sort of interesting to look at it, but I wouldn’t want to date any of them. I (oh so briefly) dated a #7 once, and he was delightful to look at, but he just didn’t have two thoughts to rub together. Poor thing. Mostly, though, I think people that look like that are way too worried about their bodies. I know I should be worried a bit more about mine, but there’s gotta be a happy medium. #4, maybe. He’s all posed like he’s trying to be hawt, which turns me off. #3 looks like most of the men I know. #2 looks perfect. Strong enough to move the piano, but not obsessed with himself. #1, I married. Does he have a six pack? No. But he keeps my car filled with gas, he runs interference with my mother, he eats anything I cook, and he thinks I’m the cat’s pajamas. I far prefer it to a second set of shoulders! ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/59 "2007-06-28T20:57:31Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] While we’re sorting the myths from the realities about what women like vs. what men _think_ women like, we don’t care about baldness, either. If you’re going bald, get a very short haircut and pretend that’s what you wanted in the first place. Women don’t care anywhere near as much as guys do. [/QUOTE] Preach it! And some bald guys are positively hot. My husband’s dad’s cousin (still with me?) is 70, bald as an egg, and frankly leaves Sean Connery in the dust. I’ve seen pictures of him when he had a full head of hair, and he looked good then, but he looks even better now. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742/60 "2007-06-28T21:10:43Z")
1. Though 9 isn’t too bad either. (I’m 30) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-which-male-physique-would-you-prefer/409742.md?page=4)