# Odd turn-ons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587 "2001-01-31T18:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/41 "2001-02-01T03:26:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Upham \* > \*\ ***Just A Girl** wanna make out? (why beat around the bush? life is SHORT!) > > Man, i’m cleanin’ up in this thread \*\* Why I thought you’d never ask…I love a man who gets to the point… Come here my skinny love machine! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/42 "2001-02-01T03:30:40Z")
(not that it matters) we prefer the term “slender” C’mon, there’s a bed in the back of my van ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/43 "2001-02-01T09:48:43Z")
Most of my turn-ons are quite odd. The really weird one is the thrill I get while stopped in traffic, and seeing a woman in the car ahead of me putting on make-up. As if she’s making herself pretty just for me. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/44 "2001-02-01T11:40:49Z")
Big hands… BIG turn on. That growl will get me every time. A low, quiet, deep voice on the phone (well, in person too, but it REALLY turns me on on the phone!) A fingertip being brushed behind my ear. Having fingers run through my hair. Those are the ones I can think of right now… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/45 "2001-02-01T13:17:51Z")
The little dimple at the base of a woman’s throat. I just have to touch it, then kiss it, then start kissing that super soft skin right below that, and, and… I think I have to go home now and hope my honey is still in bed. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/46 "2001-02-01T13:37:59Z")
The place where a man’s neck slopes into his shoulders. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/47 "2001-02-01T14:00:52Z")
You people are all sick. Bodies, voices, teeth and so on. What ever happened to the old fashioned turn ons, like whips, chains and thigh high leather boots with stilleto heels? Don’t you guys have any sense of tradition? ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/48 "2001-02-01T16:44:05Z")
Oh, fine **Canthearya** , make fun of me. 🙂 I tried to find a good way to put it, but that’s what I ended up with. Basically, I think it’s the unconventional, together with confidence, that I like. Oh, and hell yeah on the thigh-high leather boots. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/49 "2001-02-01T17:00:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Purd Werfect \* > \*\*Earth Mothers, Girl Next Door, or weirdo types. > If you fit any three of the above, (and I fervently hope the forsaking of makeup and the being smart as hell is amongst the three), Command me to do thy bidding. > > ::swoons:: > > \*\* Don’t wear makeup? No Don’t shave your armpits? Sometimes Hourglass shaped? Sort of, not busty Very skinny without being anorexic? not VERY, but considered skinny Dress sort of like a hippy or punk? Usually Kind of a jock without being exercise obsessed? Athletic but not coordinated Heartland wholesomeness? I’m from Ohio and was raised by Mormons! Doesn’t get any more corn-fed heartland wholesome than that. Cute or unusual face? Perhaps Front tooth gap? No. Do Crooked teeth count? Socially on the fringe without being massively neurotic? Absolutely Smart as hell? No doubt about it. I think I’m in! Incidentally, my odd turn-on: Watching men shave. I don’t want to help, or participate. I just like to watch you shave… ::shiver:: ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/50 "2001-02-01T17:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rachelle \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\*For some reason, I really really dig left-handed women. > > \*\* > > Hey > **Beelzebubba** , I’m a left-handed woman… how YOU doin? 😉 > > My turn ons consist of facial hair, especially goatees and beards… my SO has a beard right now and it makes me soooo hot! I also like muscular legs and arms but that isn’t very odd. \*\* Facial hair I got…plenty of it that grows plenty fast. Shave me bare, I can grow a full beard in a week. I’m doin pretty good…Wanna make out? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/51 "2001-02-01T19:38:09Z")
For me, it’s always been short women. I’m 6’5" and I love women 5’3" and under. Don’t know what it is. Also: Black knee-length boots. Glasses. (Any woman that can pull off the ‘cute but intellectual’ look… mmmmmmm…) And a woman that’ll sit and watch ‘Conan the Destroyer’ with me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/52 "2001-02-01T20:40:20Z")
A woman wearing shorts and a baseball cap, with her hair pulled through the cap’s hole in the back. The way my SO growls in my ear… ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/53 "2001-02-01T21:44:35Z")
I seem to remember the OP referring to “unusual” things that turn people on, and so far there haen’t been that many that were too strange. I however, for some reason, have a thing for girls who burp. Belch, even. It’s something about the carelessness and free-spiritedness (is that a word?)of a woman letting rip with good burp. It seems to me to evoke self-confidence and the willingness not to worry what others think about them. And nothing is sexier than self-confidence. I also like those black knee-high boots that are in fashion. I saw them on a trip to Europe 2 years ago and I couldn’t wait for the trend to come stateside. ---
**Author:** ![Inanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inanna)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/54 "2001-02-01T22:26:21Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by The Infraggable Krunk \* \*\*For me, it’s always been short women. I’m 6’5" and I love women 5’3" and under. Don’t know what it is. _Sigh_… Tall men are so few and far between and they all like short women damnit. Being a near-six-footer woman, I would personally like to thank you for rubbing it in. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Inanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inanna)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/55 "2001-02-01T22:29:25Z")
And whoops… ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/56 "2001-02-01T22:30:43Z")
“ **China Girl** ” by David Bowie. Or isn’t that very unusual? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/57 "2001-02-01T23:35:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by struuter \* > **Let’s see…I’m with you on the flame thing. If a guy smokes, the way he holds his cigarette can be…um, stimulating** I don’t get that at all… it’s sort of like saying “the way he rolls his own feces around in his hand can be…um, stimulating” Anyway, I have a thing for arms. Arms and shoulders. Lean but strong… yummy. I love jeans + no shirt on a guy who is thin but strong with just a tiny amount of chest hair. I also think that guys look hot in dresses. What can I say. A guy goofing around in a dress is a turn on to me. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/58 "2001-02-02T00:18:32Z")
Girls in heavy eye-makeup (think Faith, not Mimi). Aggressive girls turn all “No, baby, you drive” at the right moment. Girls with nicely done tattoos, as long as there aren’t TOO many of them. Girls who like to be bitten. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/59 "2001-02-02T00:26:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Edwardina \* > \*\*“ **China Girl** ” by David Bowie. Or isn’t that very unusual? \*\* Are you including the music video in this turn-on? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587/60 "2001-02-02T01:16:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Upham \* > \*\*(not that it matters) we prefer the term “slender” > > C’mon, there’s a bed in the back of my van \*\* Ok my “slender” love machine. So you’ve got a shaggin wagon huh? Nice… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-turn-ons/52587.md?page=4)