# Straight men & gay women: are hard-bodied or soft-bodied women more beautiful in your eyes?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 14, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-men-gay-women-are-hard-bodied-or-soft-bodied-women-more-beautiful-in-your-eyes/695531 "2014-08-14T18:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-men-gay-women-are-hard-bodied-or-soft-bodied-women-more-beautiful-in-your-eyes/695531/61 "2014-08-18T17:24:40Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Hard-bodied women can be like riding a bicycle over a cobblestone street.

Mayhap, but the question was which you prefer to look at, not cuddle (or whatever) with.

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**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-men-gay-women-are-hard-bodied-or-soft-bodied-women-more-beautiful-in-your-eyes/695531/62 "2014-08-18T18:55:13Z")

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Straight man: Much, much much prefer a woman with a softer body. I can be attracted to slim and relatively fit women with soft features and soft curves as well as heavier women with a voluptuous figure. I’m also definitely a breast man, so flat-chested women don’t do a lot for me. I am very, very rarely attracted to a woman with a stick figure or a really hard athletic build. Just doesn’t do anything for me. About half of the women in advertising who are stereotypically ‘hot’ do absolutely nothing for me. A softer body with kindness in the eyes is what really does it for me.

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