# (Perhaps Surprising) Things That Make a Guy Sexy To You **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775 "2001-10-01T15:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/41 "2001-10-01T20:15:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*Glasses. And cooking skills. And long eyelashes. \*\* Glasses check Skillz check Eyelashes my eyelashes have been coveted by almost all the women who have admired them closely enough:) And you like Irish music and you’re hot…swoon ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/42 "2001-10-01T20:16:17Z")
\*men in uniform \*men with southern accents \*men being nice to animals, playing with animals, displaying knowledge about animals, having animals \*men being courteous in daily life \*men adeptly handling cars \*men in cowboy hats and boots and tightish jeans. when are cowboys going to wear closefitting but not gonadually revealing jeans? Like jeans from the gap or abercrombie (both stores that i hate but look great on men) ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/43 "2001-10-01T20:19:03Z")
**jarbabyj** , I read about the Welder and I think that you and I were seperated at birth. _panting_ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/44 "2001-10-01T20:31:00Z")
I may have been through this before, but I find that geekiness, femmeness, and/or non-terminal shyness can make a cute guy even cuter ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/45 "2001-10-01T20:33:07Z")
\*Ditto the uniforms. Especially Marines in dress uniform. \*Hats. Especially fedoras and cowboy hats. _Rowl_ \*Boots, of yes. Boots. **[manhattan** and **Verrain** can attest to my boot fetish, having seen me drooling at Dragon Con. \*Also dig the greying at the temples. \ ***Fiver** , pipes are very sexy. \*Nice hands. Talented hands. \*Sarcastic wit. \*Dark eyes framed by long, thick eyelashes. \*Laughter. \*Dark sunglasses \*Sometimes it’s good to live in Oklahoma because I am perfectly capable of making a spectacle of myself over rodeo cowboys. Rodeos at the Lazy E Arena are a religious experience. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/46 "2001-10-01T20:43:13Z")
Ah yes, dark eyes and long, dark eyelashes… mmmm… **Arden** , I’ve only ever been to one rodeo in my life, at the Saratoga County Fair this summer, and I took two of my friends. The cowboys, oh the cowboys! My friends were worried I was going to taint the purity of my love for Gunslinger, with those cowboys! ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/47 "2001-10-01T21:04:40Z")
Oh, yeah. Bronco and bull riders especially 'cause they also have those leather gloves, spurs and chaps. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/48 "2001-10-01T21:04:47Z")
Ok, **Maeglin**. Forget the occasional fencing challenge. Forget the wars in German, Latin, Anglo-Saxon. Forget the challenge of translating the Beastie Boys into the original Latin. This means war, and I hereby offer a formal challenge. I challenge you to a match of Trivial Pursuit. I believe Genus IV is the most recent edition. I will make you my bitch and spank you like a red-headed stepchild. I’ll let you determine the stakes of this challenge. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/49 "2001-10-01T21:05:09Z")
I love guys that play either piano or guitar. Something about the hand thing, I guess. Once one of my “buddies” upon whom I had only a mild crush, sat down and played a piece of classical music when we walked by a piano in a hotel lobby. I about fainted!!! He transformed from a minor crush to an obsession in seconds flat. Gotta chime in on the uniform thing, too. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/50 "2001-10-01T21:09:15Z")
I see it’s been said repeatedly, but he good Daddy thing \*is[/is] a huge turn on. Big guy, baggy shorts buying the kid and all his friends sno-cones and bringing me one too. Deep laugh line wrinkles at the eyes. 501 Jeans, even if they’re baggy in the rear. A small scar on the forehead, eyebrow or chin. (Makes ya wanna kiss it!) ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/51 "2001-10-01T21:11:07Z")
He’s another vote for slight premature graying. My boyfrind it totally self-conscious about it but I think it’s so nice-looking. One bizarre thing that I’ve always found really sexy: Wide shoulders. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/52 "2001-10-01T21:11:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*The baby thing. > > I see a young guy on the train with a pink diaper bag and a wriggly baby in a stroller, he leans over to adjust the hat and maybe hand the child a few cheerios from a sandwich bag. He props the little foot on his thigh to tie the baby’s shoelace. > > I’m practically creaming. God that’s so sexy! \*\* Management kindly requests guests to refrain from [drooling](http://home.revealed.net/ddwyer/maeve-dad.jpg) on their keyboards. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/53 "2001-10-01T21:32:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*One bizarre thing that I’ve always found really sexy: Wide shoulders. I don’t know why. \*\* That’s not really bizarre at all. Wide shoulders, narrow hips. Sounds like a cowboy. 😃 But that reminds me. Well defined collar bones. I just want to nibble all along those. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/54 "2001-10-01T21:41:30Z")
I’ve hung out with him a few times IRL, and **Maeglin** is indeed a babe magnet. My own list: I dig a man that can carry himself well. Not so much gracefully, but naturally. Like everything is effortless. Good smoking is another, like **jarbabyj** mentioned. Something about when a guy is holding a cigarette with just his lips and he looks up at you kinda sideways… _shiver_ Even though I don’t particularly drink, watching a man drink bourbon or scotch is strangely attractive. Domestic men also do it for me. If he can cook and knows his way around a kitchen… ayup, I think that’s hella hot. Quirky smiles. Intelligence is a huge turn on. I’m not a dummy, but a guy that’s way more intelligent than I keeps me challenged, and is an insanely huge turn on. Heh, I just described a friend of mine to a T. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/55 "2001-10-01T21:47:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > Fireman? > Nope. But I would have been third generation had I passed the psychological test. My OCD and anxiety disorder disqualified me. Wouldn’t OCD be **good**? You know, checking to make sure all the people were out of the burning building? ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/56 "2001-10-01T23:20:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jodi \* > \*\*Strong hands and forearms. Ohyes. Don’t know why, but I’m a sucker for good hands. 🙂 \*\* _large_ strong hands and forearms. Yum. The baby thing doesn’t do it for me, because I can’t help but think that he is taken. On the other hand, men who are good with animals…oh my god. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/57 "2001-10-01T23:39:39Z")
Yeah, big hands mean big . . . gloves. 🙂 And add me to the list of those who think “there’s something about a man in uniform.” That white triangle of T-shirt showing under a cop’s dark blue uniform shirt right at his throat – yep yep yep. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/58 "2001-10-01T23:56:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*I challenge you to a match of Trivial Pursuit. I believe Genus IV is the most recent edition. I will make you my bitch and spank you like a red-headed stepchild. I’ll let you determine the stakes of this challenge. \*\* Genus IV is way dumbed-down. Real men play Genus II or, better yet, the Baby Boomer edition. Genus IV. Feh. No one will play Trivial Pursuit with me, either. Especially the original Genus edition; I’ve played it so many times I’ve got most of the questions memorized. [/shameless bragging] ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/59 "2001-10-02T00:15:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > > \*\*I challenge you to a match of Trivial Pursuit. I believe Genus IV is the most recent edition. I will make you my bitch and spank you like a red-headed stepchild. I’ll let you determine the stakes of this challenge. \*\* > > Genus IV is way dumbed-down. Real men play Genus II or, better yet, the Baby Boomer edition. > > Genus IV. Feh. > > No one will play Trivial Pursuit with me, either. Especially the original Genus edition; I’ve played it so many times I’ve got most of the questions memorized. [/shameless bragging] \*\* [slight hijack]Oh good, i thought it was just me. It’s not even fun anymore. [/skight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775/60 "2001-10-02T03:06:06Z")
I’m bad about eyes. Deep, soulful eyes. Colors depend on the person. Like, my boyfriend has brown eyes…deep dark brown eyes…eyes to fall into…[sub][sup]Excuse me for a moment…[/sub][/sup] And sarcastic wit. God, kills me everytime. Aforementioned boyfriend makes me laugh till I cry. Let’s see…Crooked grins…that’s great. Spiky hair. Like, spiked up with soft gel. Not hard, but wax, so it’s all soft. That’s kick-ass, if they can pull it off, that is… And hm…-chews on lip- Guys who look good in a suit ( **ARose** , by popular opinion, fills this quota as well.) I second wide shoulders. Wide shoulders, and slimmer hips…Hm… Oh, FUCK, **Arden Ranger**! COLLARBONES! Oh my GOD…_falls over_ Oh yes, oh yesss… And long fingers. Soft, gentle hands, with long fingers. _sigh_ Oh man… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-surprising-things-that-make-a-guy-sexy-to-you/84775.md?page=4)