Please note that I wrote “in your eyes.” Ignore whether the woman in question is smart or dumb, funny or stoic, conservative or liberal. Hell, even Welshwomen may be discussed. The only question here is your superficial assessment of a woman’s beauty based on whether she works out to such an extent to have six-pack abs, sharply defined guns, and so forth, or does not.
I also did not accidentally leave out the question of whether men are more attractive if they are cut or not. Why? Because that’s not what I am wondering about, that’s why.
To reiterate the thread question: Straight men & gay women: are you more likely to be superficially attracted to a woman – to enjoy seeing her naked, in vulgar terms – if she has a soft body or a hard body?
Man here: I prefer not only a soft body, but a nice, voluptuous body. Skinny women do nothing for me, hard women look like men with boobs. Not my thing at all.
I appreciate fitness, but prefer it under natural curves. Women who by genetics or excess exercise have an abnormally low amount of body fat are not appealing to me.
Postulated: men who prefer a woman with a lean, hard body are secretly gay.
Straight man here: I feel that six-pack abs are about as attractive on a woman as a mustache. My brain just refuses to see that as a feminine trait. (And I’m not even sure I see a six-pack on a man as a positive thing, but it is at least a masculine and non-negative thing on a man.)
Even if we’re not talking six-pack abs, I’ve always felt that a woman’s stomach is not meant to be flat. Most bikini/underwear models could do with an extra ten or twenty pounds (at least) to round out the hips and the belly.
Something tells me we ought to define, or at least provide examples of soft vs. hardbodied before the arguing starts.
That said, I’m pretty catholic in my interest- I dig quite a few of the women in the ESPN “Body” issue, as well as fitness competitors. But I also find a lot of “chubby” women attractive as well.
I assume by hard-bodied you’re not talking specifically female body-builders, but just muscular. I’ve seen some female athletes with pretty decent guns ( tennis, but particularly basketball ) I’ve thought attractive and I can think of a ton of attractive “soft” women. So I guess I’m pretty equal opportunity on the issue.
Straight guy. I prefer my women fit. Not Schwarzenegger huge, but fit. A little softness is good, but all soft is so not appealing, especially if they’re thin to not-overweight size. I need some muscle underneath the squish or it doesn’t do as much for me.
How are you “erased”? If you’re a woman, vote as a gay woman. If you’re a man, vote as a straight man.
God, it’s like you people want me to be fair or something.
