# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/41 "2025-08-13T23:52:36Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > 1. Clubbing What? Like baby seals? ---
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/42 "2025-08-13T23:56:02Z")
Not hot. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/43 "2025-08-14T00:04:41Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Like baby seals? Who doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/44 "2025-08-14T00:12:08Z")
Kitemaking and flying the kites you made with your own hands (on your sewing machine) is a very nice hobby! There are some beautiful handmade kites flying today! ---
**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 14, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/45 "2025-08-14T00:14:56Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > Like baby seals? > > Who doesn’t? Grilled, fried, or _tartare aller-retour_? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/46 "2025-08-14T19:55:04Z")
As a longtime Doper, I do not understand these people who object to hobbies like “debating” and “arguing online”. Admittedly, their attractiveness is strongly dependent on what you’re arguing for and how well you do it. ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/47 "2025-08-14T20:09:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > As a longtime Doper, I do not understand these people who object to hobbies like “debating” and “arguing online”. Maybe if you’re all the time arguing online, you won’t get to spend much time with your partner. Ask my husband! Sometimes my debrief at the end of the day is, “Let me tell you about all the people who were wrong on the Internet today.'" ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/48 "2025-08-14T20:38:48Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > As a longtime Doper, I do not understand these people who object to hobbies like “debating” and “arguing online”. Remember, this survey went out to general, average people. And general, average people tend to be morons. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/49 "2025-08-14T20:48:04Z")
If arguing on the internet is wrong, I don’t wanna be right! But if I didn’t care about being right, then I wouldn’t _want_ to…um, this is tricky. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/50 "2025-08-14T21:38:12Z")
I’m surprised Exercise/Gym wasn’t higher in the list. ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/51 "2025-08-14T22:15:03Z")
You mean higher on the “attractive” list or the “not attractive” list? I can maybe see it following a curve, where e.g. “fit” is more attractive than “obese”, but somewhere between “obsessive gym rat” and “veiny muscle monster” is no longer attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/52 "2025-08-14T22:18:37Z")
Higher on the attractive list. Maybe a better word would have been “fitness.” ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/53 "2025-08-14T22:48:44Z")
So many of the most and least attractive ones make lots of sense to me as something to look for in a partner. Reading, woodworking, painting, writing, gardening, archery, and blacksmithing are all hobbies where the hobbyist will go off alone for awhile, and leave their partner alone. Conversely comic books, cosplay, debating, anime, crypto (especially crypto), cigars, arguing online, and manosphere seem like hobbies where every conversation with the hobbyist quickly devolves to, “let me talk at you about crypto” (or whichever). I guess veganism doesn’t count as a hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/54 "2025-08-14T22:52:21Z")
Congratulations to video games for moving up in the world enough to dodge the unattractive hobby list. I bet it was Stardew Valley. ---
**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 14, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/55 "2025-08-14T23:05:48Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > “let me talk at you about crypto” > [@Palooka](#): > > I bet it was Stardew Valley. For a while there during the pandemic, it was very much “let me talk at you about ~~crypto~~ ~~Stardew Valley~~ Animal Crossing”… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/56 "2025-08-14T23:30:26Z")
Oh yes, yes yes. I used to fly. Kite flying sort of lets you go. I does take skill, but not very much. You must pay attention though. It’s a good way to ‘get out of your head’ For the life of me I’ll never understand box kites though. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/57 "2025-08-16T14:47:17Z")
Collecting rare Chinese pottery and sports cars, along with visiting exotic places and dining at top-rated Michelin restaurants would probably appeal to most women.\* Not that I do any of those things. “Wanna see my fig tree collection?” \*having lots of money is generally attractive. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/58 "2025-08-16T17:02:03Z")
I had a hobby years ago that seemed to attract both women and men. I twisted fine copper wire into little bonsai trees and then gave them away. I would sit down at the coffee shop and start twisting my wire , and in no time someone would join me. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/59 "2025-08-16T18:33:56Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I twisted fine copper wire into little bonsai trees and then gave them away. I would sit down at the coffee shop and start twisting my wire , and in no time someone would join me. That’s probably as good an attention getter as walking a Golden Retriever or German Shepherd puppy! ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/60 "2025-08-16T18:51:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Remember, this survey went out to general, average people. And general, average people tend to be morons. That may not be quite accurate. By definition, half of them are above average and half below. And the word used to be a ‘professional’ medical term, which is not used these days: > **[The Clinical History of 'Moron,' 'Idiot,' and 'Imbecile'](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/moron-idiot-imbecile-offensive-history)** > > The words have a less-than-savory past [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010.md?page=4)