# Men - what turns you off? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248 "2003-04-26T02:59:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/61 "2003-04-28T23:14:02Z")
For a million pounds? All she would need is to WEIGH less than a million pounds. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/62 "2003-04-29T00:01:54Z")
Most of mine are mentioned in this thread but I would like to add one more. Too\_Much\_Makeup When I get the impression that I’m not actually seeing any uncovered, natural skin on any part of the female face in front of me I have no desire to kiss it. Makeup exists to accentuate features not make new ones. I know its not their fault but that’s why there are no female TV newspeople that attract me. All of the crap they have to put on themselves to appear on camera makes them look nighmarish to me. I’m 29 ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/63 "2003-04-29T00:26:37Z")
I’m 29 and I’m a bad speller. Make that ‘nightmarish’. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/64 "2003-04-29T11:49:58Z")
For one million pounds? Are you kidding? I’d sleep with anyone. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/65 "2003-04-29T14:57:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crafter\_Man \* > \*\*So here’s my question; Why does it seem like every women is depressed? They all seem to have the “my-life-is-miserable-and-unfair-and-I’m-an-angry-and-depressed-female” attitude. Why are there so few women who appear genuinely happy? Is it a trendy thing, or are all these women really depressed? \*\* I’m almost always happy. And I smile most of the time… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![six-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@six-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/six-o)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/66 "2003-04-29T15:42:05Z")
I’m fairly picky about my physical features, but I think the older I get, the less important they will be. I’m currently in the process of learning that conversationalists are important. Never in my life have I ever had a hard time talking to someone, however, I’m currently dating this girl that’s just horrible at conversation. I just never realized that people could be bad at this. However, stupidity is the number one deal breaker for me. Here are a couple of anecdotes. I take this girl to a hockey game. I live in Pittsburgh, we go to the Mellon Arena (formerly the Civic Arena). It’s not that big, it hold maybe 17,000. To me, it’s obvious which seats are removable and whch aren’t. The place just isn’t that big, I think they have a hard time getting the circus in there. Anyways, she turns to me and says, “Wow, this is where they play baseball?” Game Over. First off, you couldn’t fit a baseball diamond in there, and secondly, Pittsburgh just got a new baseball stadium maybe two years ago. How can you be this oblivious? _arg_ Different girl We are sitting eatting dinner and discussing an Irish friend of mine. He had been going to school on and off, and was considering travelling home to see his ill mother. Unfortunately, he did not want to go back because he let his Visa expire and was technically here illegally. What brilliant idea does she come up with? “Oh, I didn’t know you needed a credit card to get into the United States” _boggle_ Obviously! How do you think we keep our economy in such a state of consumer spending! (I think she would have been completely confused if I’d said that) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/67 "2003-04-29T16:35:33Z")
Complete turn offs: large artificially enhanced breasts, folds of fat, plumpness is gorgeous, but when the fat makes folds yuck, California dumb-blonde attitude and accent, “Well I was at the mall, yeah, and like, well I saw Beverley, like, and she was with…” Anything else can be outweighed by good points, but the above just leave me cold. Cheers, Bippy ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/68 "2003-04-29T16:37:23Z")
Stupidity, and to a lesser degree, ignorance. Even if she was perfectly nice, I could never have a relationship with a woman who wasn’t of above average intelligence. (I’m 23.) ---
**Author:** ![six-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@six-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/six-o)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/69 "2003-04-29T16:50:32Z")
I’m now 27 BTW. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/70 "2003-04-29T19:39:01Z")
Heck, one million pounds, that’s a bit over 1.6 million. I would need some sort of quick acting Viagra. I probably wouldn’t be able to, well, perform, if the woman didn’t turn me on. But, to decrease the possibility of permanant psychological injury, the viagra drug would have to be quick acting. That’s if it’s kept a secret. Publicity will call the whole thing off. That and a kissing requirment. Disease is a concern, so I’d demand protection. Shove some menthol in my nose, give me a bit of a numbing agent for my limbs, a blindfold, and a Walkman cranked up to 10, and I’d do just about anything for 1.6 mil. I’m 36. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/71 "2003-04-29T21:07:24Z")
Vaginas and boobies really turn me off. So do womanly hips. However, as long as a woman was disease free, I would sleep with her for a million dollars. My lowest price to sleep with a woman would be about $10,000… if you were going to ask. It may make me a prostitute, but at least I would be a high priced one. Of course, I wouldn’t actually tell the woman what the low offer is, she would have to find it through bargaining. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/72 "2003-04-29T21:14:21Z")
After reading through the thread… > [@](#): > > …I would have fucked the Queen. How many of the boys at the pub could say that? Almost everyone at the gay bar. Myself included has fucked untold numbers of queens. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/73 "2003-04-29T21:14:41Z")
for $1.6 Million? I just need to know my wife won’t leave me - and for $1.6M I’m pretty sure I could talk her into it! ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/74 "2003-04-30T03:46:28Z")
Women who don’t like me. That’s the big turn-off right there. Although there are other things, like a crappy, negative personality, no sense of humor, piercings other than ears, too many tattoos, funky smells in odd places, stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/75 "2003-04-30T03:47:35Z")
48, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/76 "2003-04-30T04:50:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrsface \* > **What really turns men right off? Or, if you prefer, what woman would you decline to sleep with for £1m?** What do you mean by “sleep”? Penetration only, i.e. one could do it through a “glory hole”? Or do you mean “make love” and all that entails, e.g. kissing, holding, hugging, buck-naked back rub, etc.? ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/77 "2003-04-30T16:57:37Z")
Tatoos, _especially_ those small-of-the-back ones. And non-ear piercings. But for a million, I’d sleep with anyone or anything that didn’t have a transmittable disease. P.S. I’m 29. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/78 "2003-04-30T20:38:12Z")
Smoking. Being grouchy/negative all the time. (Some of the time is normal. Never is downright wierd. Always is a turn-off.) Hypocrisy - “You can’t do that, but I can” - definite turn-off. Lack of a sense of humor. 36. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/79 "2003-04-30T23:04:04Z")
Someone had to do it… What turns me off? Usually flipping the small switch in the middle of my back. 😃 **six-o** - That is why many of us have moved away from the 'Burgh. Oh, and for that kind of money I would do anyone and might even consider being done. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248/80 "2003-05-01T16:47:14Z")
I’d say braces with rubber bands…esp. during certain types of sex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-what-turns-you-off/171248.md?page=5)