# Quirky/Oddly Specific Things You're Attracted To **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815 "2025-09-07T11:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/21 "2025-09-07T22:19:49Z")
Oh, and if there’s competition from other women - forget it, I don’t play that game. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/22 "2025-09-07T22:44:09Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > I’m a man attracted to women. I like a bit of plumpness Same here. Skinny absolutely is not a deal breaker for me, as such. But all else being equal, I would go for a woman who, ideally, has maybe ten to twenty “extra” pounds. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/23 "2025-09-07T22:49:03Z")
I’m curious what constitutes “competition”. Is it that other women are interested in him, or that he’s interested in other women, or a combination? If you were already established in a relationship, and other women started drooling over your partner (while he remained devoted to you), would that be a turn-off? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/24 "2025-09-07T23:44:03Z")
Intelligence, kindness, and humor draws me in all kinds of packages. But physically, the scrawny and wiry type turns my head; Howard of Big Bang Theory being a perfect example. A big beaky nose would be just a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/25 "2025-09-07T23:48:46Z")
> [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > Man attracted to women. > > Some woman’s voices. Man attracted to women - sibilance, in particular, has an ASMR quality I find arousing. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/26 "2025-09-08T00:12:25Z")
> [@theater\_in\_a\_crowded\_fire](#): > > I’ve always had a thing for women with dark, very curly hair and extremely pale skin. Bernadette Peters! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/27 "2025-09-08T00:43:39Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > Being slightly androgenous can often be attractive, too. Oh yeah, I forgot that one. I also forgot to say that I’m a woman attracted to men. Or possibly also to androgynous people. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/28 "2025-09-08T10:57:52Z")
Not sure if it’s an attraction, but ‘different’ eyes. I’ve a cousin that has one lazy eye, it’s always pointing in a slightly different direction, it’s freaky, and very cool. A SIL that has different color eyes. it’s nearly impossible for me to look away. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/29 "2025-09-08T13:39:45Z")
I love bare shoulders. Man, attracted to women. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/30 "2025-09-08T13:41:30Z")
I have different color eyes. Ms. P finds them interesting, but I don’t know if she’d find them unusually attractive if they weren’t in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/31 "2025-09-08T14:45:55Z")
I don’t know that it’s all that quirky or odd, but I (man) definitely have a strong attraction to women with red hair, green eyes, and freckles. I think it must be indicative of a past life as a Celt somewhere along the line. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/32 "2025-09-08T14:55:38Z")
Man attracted to women. Smiles and expressive eyes. As a Hollywood example, Aubrey Plaza does nothing for me in her usual dour mopey slack personas she is known for. But when you can find her in full face and eyes smile, she is stunning. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/33 "2025-09-08T15:14:40Z")
‘Doug Heffernan, King of Queens’? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/34 "2025-09-08T15:18:26Z")
Juliana Margulies, she was quite striking on ER in the 90’s (which I still watch today on PopTV). ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/35 "2025-09-08T15:20:39Z")
Woman attracted to men. I tend to go for shorter, wiry, intellectual men with a snarky sense of humor. Years ago, it was amusing to see the kind of man that a friend once tried to set me up with. He was a big bearlike bearded man with a country-rustic sort of personality. Think “Al” from _Home Improvement_. I was polite, but he was exactly the opposite of what attracted me. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/36 "2025-09-08T15:30:34Z")
Same here, although I wouldn’t consider that quirky, it’s got to be pretty common I would’ve thought? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/37 "2025-09-08T16:06:08Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I have different color eyes. Ms. P finds them interesting, but I don’t know if she’d find them unusually attractive if they weren’t in my head. The women I mentioned are attractive regardless of their eyes. I just have a hard time looking away. One had a very interesting career promoting AI. That was a few years ago. As it is national Star Trek day, I found it ‘fascinating’. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/38 "2025-09-08T16:20:52Z")
Woman attracted to men. Altho one time I watched a video of a woman crushing a melon between her thighs and I was kind of obsessed. I am pretty sure it’s because I wanted to BE that woman. I have fantastic thighs. I do notice nice thighs in men. I am more partial to baggy straight-cut pants but when a guy is in some tight pants and his thighs are bursting out then I get a little shimmery. Extra bonus points if there’s a butt to match. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/39 "2025-09-08T16:28:09Z")
Men with facial hair (beards) are very unappealing to me. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815/40 "2025-09-08T17:38:54Z")
Hmm, yes, fair point. In that case, counter-clockwise hair whorls squick me out, must be clockwise 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815.md?page=3)