# Things you find romantically attractive, for no good reason **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401 "2007-07-03T21:20:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401/81 "2007-07-07T12:44:12Z")
Long hair on men can be soooo sexy. Think Steve Perry. I can’t imagine how my parents would have reacted had I brought someone home who looked like him. FWIW, I’m happily married to a stock broker, who would look absolutely ridiculous with long hair. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401/82 "2007-07-09T17:27:27Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist] OOOH. I have a tragus piercing. I am not an asshole (well _I_ don’t think I am). _looks down_…ah, but I have a hoo-hoo. Oh well. [/QUOTE] Aw, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401/83 "2007-07-09T17:44:31Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] OK, I think I get it. **MaxTheVool** is asking what traits or behaviors we find attractive _in spite_ of the fact that those same traits pretty much guarantee no relationship is going to happen. [/QUOTE] OK, I’ll play, even though mine is a bit embarassing: Mean girls. Kind of stupid, mindlessly mean, superficial, not just confident but actively vain, vapid, hateful, spoiled. These are qualities that ensure that I would never be interested in a person. And yet my reptile brain insists that they are attractive qualities. I don’t know why. I am ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401/84 "2007-07-09T17:57:41Z")
For me, it was always the “Campus Girl” look. Comprised as such: [ol] [li]Umbro soccer shorts[/li][li]Baseball cap with pony tail pulled THROUGH the back[/li][li]Rumpled sweatshirt[/li][li]Tennis shoes with short white socks[/li][/ol] Not too surprisingly, I married a girl I met at a tennis drill. 🙂 I second the Asian thing, as well as the Goth thing. Funny about the Goth thing, though…I don’t even know any Goth-ie women, much less was ever in a position to do something about it. -Cem ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401/85 "2007-07-09T18:19:29Z")
In the spirit of the OP’s intention, I’ve always dug dudes who sport the “greaser” look. But I never had the courage to bring one home to meet Mom, and my wonderful fiancee is about as far away from this look as you can get. Chain-smoking guys with tattoos, slicked-back hair, chain wallets…_rowr_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-romantically-attractive-for-no-good-reason/410401.md?page=4)