Just curious is this is a widespread feeling. The reason the topic came up is that I was at a restaurant with a female friend the other day and we were waited on by a quite pregnant woman. She had on a big, loose shirt but it was fairly obvious.
Later on, we met up with her boyfriend after work and the waitress came up in conversation. At some point I mentioned that she was quite attractive and looked like she took care of herself. By his reaction you’d have thought I’d said, “yeah, she has open sores that continually ooze pus, has no hair and constantly belches noxious fumes, but heck, I’d do her.”
So, out of curiousity, how many men find the fact that a woman is pregnant, excluding spouses and the like, to be a major turnoff. And I don’t mean “turnoff” in a sexual sense, just a general, hey she’s pleasant on the eyes kind of thing.
Not a man, but I definitely find pregnant women to be gross. Bleargh. Fortunately for me, I never “showed” when I was pregnant with my daughter, and with my son (maybe not so fortunately) I was obese, so just looked fatter, not pregnant. And yes, I find many fat women to be attractive, just those basketball bellies? Ugh, they squick me out bigtime!
I definitely think pregnant women have that glow, and it can be quite attractive. However, as a father of three, I must point out that I am far from inexperienced in this regard, which may have something to do with it.
I’m a girl and I kind of think pregnant women and pregnancy is gross, too. It’s the bellies, and the icky fact that there is a BABY in there, gross! And I have heard plenty of things about the nasty things that come out of you when you’re pregnant.
PLEASE note I admit it here but I am very nice to pregnant people IRL, so don’t jump my shit.
I haven’t known any men who find pregnant women unattractive or freaky, but I notice sometimes in movies and television that men are shown to be creeped out or disgusted with pregnant women’s bodies. I guess it’s a fairly common opinion, but it bothers me.
I just don’t get why that’s considered so weird. It’s natural, and really cool when you think about it, so why the yuck faces?
The show “Scrubs” really bothered me when the character of Carla was pregnant the first time. In one of the episodes, he husband lamented the fact that she was hornier than ever, but he couldn’t stand to look at her. Wow.
To me, an attractive woman is still attractive when she’s pregnant, maybe more so because of the ‘glow’. However, a sack o’ taters woman with a butterface is going to look that much worse.
I’m a father and I find pregnant women beyond unsexy. I didn’t touch my wife sexually at all during her pregnancy. It’s not so much the woman herself that makes my gag a bit, it’s the idea of a little guy in there dodging back and forth in a pocket of goo as a huge, bald, fleshy telephone pole stabs at him. It’s H.R. Giger kind o’ creepy…
I work in a center of 1500 people, and most of them are women so I see them pretty much daily. It really just depends on the woman, and I actually find one of them fairly attractive.
I don’t find it even slightly attractive and no I don’t want to touch it either. I can’t think of any situation where I would be attracted to a pregnant woman that was showing.
Really? Wow. I think pregnant women look beautiful. But then I can’t wait to have a baby, and can’t see a pregnant woman without at least a small stab of envy.
Well pregnancy doesn’t make an unattractive woman suddenly attractive but it certainly doesn’t put me off. I don’t find it arousing but I would say it is not a bad feature. The only time I have found it unattractive was seeing pictures of mega multiple mothers like Octomom. That was disgusting.
It depends on the woman, if she’s normally attractive and her pregnancy is showing mostly just as a belly then I’ll still think she’s attractive. The late pregnancy duck waddle usually makes me chuckle a bit (internally, I’m not going to laugh out loud at a pregnant woman) but it’s kinda cute in a way too.
Pregnancy doesn’t bother me at all. Now birth, there’s something I want no part of. Uggh.
When I was pregnant, I felt like I had a really slow super-power. The ability to grow another person is very weird, but totally cool, IMO. Freaky as hell–in a good way.
Not a man, and can’t comment on the sexually attractive aspect, thoug.
From a distance, it doesn’t bother me at all. Up close is another matter. Things like brown stripes down the abdomen and lots of fat in unexpected places are kind of ugly. Fortunately, pregnancy is not usually a chronic condition.