# What Makes a Man or Woman Sexy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 12, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661 "2003-12-12T20:31:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661/21 "2003-12-24T00:44:21Z")

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Hey **glee** ;how YOU doin’? 😉

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**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661/22 "2003-12-24T01:21:53Z")

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I like my women, the way I like my coffee, hot, blonde,and weak 😉

Actually…Sexy to me is; literate, intelligent, sarcastic, eclectic, and a bit wicked.

As far as the body, there must, I repeat MUST be curves. There’s not a damn thing interesting, in my estimation, about a woman that’s built like a 13 year old boy (or super model).

Being 6’5" 290 I need something to hold onto!

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**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661/23 "2003-12-24T01:23:16Z")

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oh, yeah, and the musclebound chicks…not so much. A shadow of muscle is sexy, protruding veins, again, not so much.

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**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661/24 "2003-12-24T01:37:43Z")

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I have no clue what makes a man sexy…  
but I got it.

in spades.  
Awwww yeah.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661/25 "2003-12-24T13:34:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Cosmopolitan \*  
> Hey **glee** ;how YOU doin’? 😉

(you’ll have to imagine my British accent)  
I’m doing awfully well, thank you. I hope that’s the correct response, but I don’t speak American. 😕

I was glad you noticed my attempt at amusing you - by the time I’d boiled the water for a nice cuppa, you’d already replied. I like a gal who’s quick on the uptake…

Oh, it’s no use. I know perfectly well who Joey Tribiani is. And I don’t like tea that much. :eek:  
But I do like the Hornblower stories (and intelligent amusing women!)

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**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-man-or-woman-sexy/218661/26 "2003-12-24T14:16:29Z")

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It is all about attitude.  
If a woman thinks they are sexy, they become sexy. Not bitchy… but confident.  
I have met a few women that I was not attracted to at first, but their personalities made them sexy.

The things I am attacted to upon first glance are eyes, smile, and a nice rear…  
but after that, if you have a “sexy” personality then you are sexy.

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