# Most Attractive Hobbies? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010 "2025-08-13T16:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/21 "2025-08-13T19:20:56Z")
What the hell is “The Manosphere”, as a discrete hobby? And where are sports (either playing or watching) on the list? It seems to me that those are fairly common hobbies. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/22 "2025-08-13T19:35:02Z")
At the risk of mansplaining - and also being totally wrong - I would want to point out that what people say they find the most attractive, when pressed in public, can be very different than what they actually do find appealing in private. People may respond to a poll with what they think is the most respectable option to choose from, or what they think would be best. But their actual preference may be very different. For instance, the fact that some women prefer jerks over quiet well-mannered guys, or some guys have a fat fetish and like obese women, etc. They may select the polite option in the poll but like the more distasteful thing. So it may be that things like “reading” aren’t actually all that attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/23 "2025-08-13T19:44:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What the hell is “The Manosphere”, as a discrete hobby? Obsessively watching Joe Rogen, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Huberman, et cetera. It’s not so much a hobby as it is a weird fetish with repressed homosexual undertones. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/24 "2025-08-13T20:00:54Z")
Based on the list I should have womenfolk churning hell and high water to get so much as a friendly embrace from me. Therefore, I declare the list balderdash. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/25 "2025-08-13T20:06:47Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Obsessively watching Joe Rogen, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Huberman, et cetera. I see why it’s number one on the list of “unattractive.” ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/26 "2025-08-13T20:12:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > My boyfriend is in to MTG and comic books Primed by @Darren_Garrison’s post, I thought you meant he was into Marjorie Taylor Greene. I assumed he must incessantly blather about comic books where MTG and AOC are fighting with space lasers. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/27 "2025-08-13T20:17:41Z")
I feel bad for the M:TG community when people abbreviate that monster’s name as MTG. I guess I need to be more diligent about using the colon. Today I got an email about the Cuyahoga River AOC announcing upcoming events and I was thoroughly confused as to why a rep from New York was involved with a river in Ohio. Turns out it’s Area of Concern. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/28 "2025-08-13T20:23:18Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I see why it’s number one on the list of “unattractive.” It’s like smoking a nasty blunt, watcing anime porn, playing online poker, trading crypto, and arguing/debating online about _Magic: The Gathering_ and _DC Universe Infinite_ while being hungover all at the same time! Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/29 "2025-08-13T20:29:24Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I feel bad for the M:TG community when people abbreviate that monster’s name as MTG. I guess I need to be more diligent about using the colon. Now I’m confused - I thought MTG _was_ the colon. Dan ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/30 "2025-08-13T20:40:08Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > Now I’m confused - I thought MTG _was_ the colon. Close, but not quite. MTG is just downstream from there. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/31 "2025-08-13T20:48:42Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Based on the list I should have womenfolk churning hell and high water to get so much as a friendly embrace from me. Curling and cryptic crosswords; my hobbies don’t make me attractive or unattractive, just invisible. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/32 "2025-08-13T20:51:14Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > At the risk of mansplaining - and also being totally wrong - I would want to point out that what people say they find the most attractive, when pressed in public, can be very different than what they actually do find appealing in private. In a real list, the top three attractive hobbies would all be “guitar playing”, is that what you’re saying? ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/33 "2025-08-13T21:44:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In a real list, the top three attractive hobbies would all be “guitar playing”, is that what you’re saying? Only in a successful band making a lot of money, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/34 "2025-08-13T21:58:54Z")
You know someone had to link to it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8V_hCqO6UQs/maxresdefault.jpg "Animal House Guitar Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_hCqO6UQs) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/35 "2025-08-13T22:09:22Z")
Similarly, women sometimes love a sense of humour. Sometimes more in having a positive attitude towards adversity rather than the humour part, though. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/36 "2025-08-13T22:19:22Z")
Wait… according to that chart, then, more than a quarter of women (28.5%) _do_ consider MTG (either one) and drinking attractive? Hmmmm… 🤔 And a third find comic books attractive? The British lads sure have it easy… those are damned good odds. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/37 "2025-08-13T22:27:43Z")
I find interest in science fiction attractive, but comic book aficionados attractively neutral. This is partly a function of wanting a partner who is into stuff I am into. It’s rare that I’m like - “I have no interest in this man’s hobby, but wow is he sexy doing it!" It’s hard for me to think of an example like that. I’m more attracted when we have interests we can share. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/38 "2025-08-13T22:35:00Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > IMHO, I find hobbies that involve original creation to be very attractive. Such as someone writing a novel, a song, etc. It’s like a window into their mind/heart. I’m a writer and I have two friends (man and woman) who are both excellent writers and married to one another. The woman told me when she first started dating him, and he offered to share his work, she was like _please don’t suck, please don’t suck…_ I’m kind of envious they share that, but I’m lucky that my husband has taken great interest in my work and is a genuine fan despite not being a writer himself. He reads and gives me honest feedback, helps me troubleshoot, and recently asked me for romance novel recommendations for work that’s most like my own, and when I gave him another romance writer to read he was like, “She is not as good as you because she doesn’t take the creative risks you do." I mean, that’s sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/39 "2025-08-13T22:52:54Z")
I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m Okay! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/40 "2025-08-13T23:36:48Z")
Flower arranging is attractive to watch. My hobby was always cleaning. Kinda sad, but it made me happy. Not anywhere near attractive. But I got brownie points for a clean floor. Not that anyone ever presented them to me. Good thing, I’d have had to clean _that_ up. For sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010.md?page=3)