# What are things that are generally considered "sexy" that you find unsexy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324 "2011-08-03T14:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/1 "2011-08-03T14:54:08Z")
What are some things that are largely thought to be sexy, but that you find do the opposite for you? Mine are ladies boots. I know many people think they are a sexy accessory, but for me - no way! They are not only covering up the legs, to me they also make the legs look fatter than they are. Not sexy at all. What else is like this? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/2 "2011-08-03T14:58:26Z")
This might not be a good example of what you’re looking for, but for some reason I find non-matching (at least color) bra and panties on women a bit of a turnoff. Yeah, I know it’s weird. Other than that, massive amounts of makeup and hairspray are also turnoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/3 "2011-08-03T15:09:34Z")
High heels. Especially if they cause the woman to walk awkwardly. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/4 "2011-08-03T15:16:31Z")
Big boobs. I know I’m in the minority on this, but give me IBTs any day. And agreed on too much makeup. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/5 "2011-08-03T15:18:15Z")
I was never a huge fan of thong underwear. Don’t get me wrong, if I bring a lady home with me and she’s wearing one it’s certainly not a turnoff, but I think normal (non-granny) panties or boyshorts are a lot sexier. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/6 "2011-08-03T15:18:26Z")
Big, muscly guys. Not into it. Give me a string bean any day, please. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/7 "2011-08-03T15:18:45Z")
Badly-designed shoes: Sure, spikes are supposed to be sexy, but all I see when I see tall heels is potentially busted ankles. Ouch (and not a _good_ ‘ouch,’ either!). Heavy makeup: A little makeup, sparingly and cunningly applied, is awesome - put the putty knife away, ladies! Heavy scents: Perfume is supposed to be an accent, not an assault! Fully shaved pubic areas: Neat and trimmed is very nice, but I want some signs I’m going down on a _woman_ - the ‘naked little girl’ look is a _massive_ turn-off. Clothing that leaves too little to the imagination: Leave a little mystery for later in the evening, if you please! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/8 "2011-08-03T15:22:46Z")
Naked women wearing high heels. Makes me think of strippers and bad porn. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/9 "2011-08-03T15:48:38Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Big, muscly guys. Not into it. Give me a string bean any day, please. Yep. I like 'em as big as swimmers (most swimmers - [Michael Phelps](http://www.thenewsinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/michael-phelps-picture.jpg) is a bit too hulking for my taste) or gymnasts, but that’s the maximum amount of muscleyness, thanks. I like skinny guys and “fluffy” bear shaped guys, but hulks turn me off. Trout pouts. I don’t understand why inflated lips are sexy, especially ridiculously exaggerated, badly done silicone lip injections. I fully understand that this is only SOME silicone lip injections - the good ones, I don’t notice as injections - but the “sexy” ones are just weird, not sexy. Similarly, the “kiss” face in pictures. Please, please, let’s stop doing this. While we’re at it, cut it out with the MySpace angle shot. We know you’re trying to minimize your double chin while showing off your cleavage, hon. Stop it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/10 "2011-08-03T15:50:39Z")
Fake breasts just gross me out. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/11 "2011-08-03T15:56:56Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Similarly, the “kiss” face in pictures. Please, please, let’s stop doing this. While we’re at it, cut it out with the MySpace angle shot. We know you’re trying to minimize your double chin while showing off your cleavage, hon. Stop it. I was racking my brain try to think of something that is universally unattractive. **WhyNot** nailed it. There are few things in the world that some woman can’t make attractive - the kiss face is one of them. What is the point of that face? ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/12 "2011-08-03T15:57:51Z")
Pole dancing/lap dancing. I’m not talking about actual strippers doing it - that has a campy sexiness. It’s ridiculous and fun. I enjoy watching it, it makes for a good night out. I’m talking about those women who take pole dancing classes and go on and on about it, thinking it’s a turn on. It makes one sound trashy and desperate. Anyway, agreed with the above comments on juice monkey guys. A swimmer’s body, long and lean-muscled, is the ultimate in sexy to me. ETA: [duckface](http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/damngirlisawthempicsonmybookfacespa.jpg)! Super unsexy. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/13 "2011-08-03T16:04:42Z")
First off: **On the subject of Boobs™…** I do, in fact, prefer them large – in the range of a C to D cup – although I’ve had girlfriends of all sizes, and before I met my wife (who happens to be well-endowed), my GF was very flat-chested, but this is the catch: they have to be _natural._ I find fake boobs almost beyond a turn-off. It’s like a toupee or a comb-over for your tits. I bring this up, because a lot of my friends who like breasts, seem to praise fake tits. I don’t get it at all. Lingerie. Not into it at all. I mean, it doesn’t kill the mood, but I’d rather see my girl in one of my tees, and nothing on underneath. … okay, now I can’t concentrate, and my wife won’t be home for another couple hours… dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Krouget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@Krouget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krouget)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/14 "2011-08-03T16:10:57Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > Pole dancing/lap dancing. I’m not talking about actual strippers doing it - that has a campy sexiness. It’s ridiculous and fun. I enjoy watching it, it makes for a good night out. I’m talking about those women who take pole dancing classes and go on and on about it, thinking it’s a turn on. It makes one sound trashy and desperate. [![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14164987/cfc7_3_gif5.gif) ](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14164987/cfc7_3_gif5.gif) I’ll add thigh-high latex boots, and add another vote for the “kiss face” in photos. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/15 "2011-08-03T16:12:51Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Fake breasts just gross me out. Fake breasts, if they’re tastefully and skillfully done, are OK though I prefer ‘natural.’ Obvious, badly-done, or bloated (special subset of ‘obvious’) are major turns-off, though. Agree on the ‘kissy face’ and ‘Lisa Rinna’ lips. Actually most of the ‘pseudo-passionate’ faces you see in advertisments and porn are full of ‘fail.’ What ever happened to a simple smile? OK, sometimes you’ll see that, but it’s become sufficiently rare that I really notice when I _do_ see a nice smile. Most ‘super sexy’ lingere fails, too. The more ‘sexy’ it tries to be, most often the more it fails. Sheer, with or without lace, can be nice. Opaque can be pretty nice too. Negligee? Sure - If it’s more than just a couple strips of cloth. Boy-shorts or hip-hugger panties? Sure, why not? Tigerstriped glitter on transparent micro g-string thong undies with chains up the butt crack?\* Get the hell outta here. I guess anything that smacks of trying too hard. Confidence is sexy. Self-aware honesty is sexy. Mystery is sexy. Blantant in-your-face desperation? Not so much. \*Yes, I’ve seen that. Yuk. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/16 "2011-08-03T16:17:20Z")
On my “search for new posts” just now, the thread immediately following this one was “Bleeding cysts.” How’s that for sequential threads? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/17 "2011-08-03T16:19:28Z")
Belly-button piercings. Tramp stamps. Can’t see the appeal, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/18 "2011-08-03T16:21:42Z")
Agreed – any tattoos at all, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/19 "2011-08-03T16:23:54Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > Belly-button piercings. Tramp stamps. Can’t see the appeal, myself. Minimalism is the key, there. It used to be they were rare, and the novelty was a big factor. Now they’re so ubiquitous and so often badly done that they’ve seriously dragged the ‘market’ down. While I’m at it: Nose and cheek piercings. Yuk, again. One makes me think of boogers, the other of busted teeth. Most facial piercing, well-done, is OK but those two just turn me off. Excessive or poorly-done facial piercings lose, too. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324/20 "2011-08-03T16:26:28Z")
Number 1: Tattoos . . . Fake anything, fake nails, fake boobs, fake eyelashes, fake pony tails. . . . Girl dancing on a pole pretending to be a stripper, whirling her head to whip her hair around. . . . . Also… trying to be sexy is so not sexy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-things-that-are-generally-considered-sexy-that-you-find-unsexy/591324.md?page=2)