# Who likes noses? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496 "2003-03-23T04:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/1 "2003-03-23T04:02:02Z")
I realized I might have an actual nose _fetish_. I’m obsessed with men with large noses, especially thin, protruding “parrot-beak” type. They’re so regal and masculine. Whenever I’m out, I’m constantly thinking “Wow, look at his nose!”, and covertly drool while staring at fine nasal specimens. When I went to Italy, I was in heaven. I just stood and marveled at all the giant noses all over the place (I also wondered how people could go through their whole lives with such gloriously massive things on their faces. I’d just pet mine all day). I also enjoy “eskimo kissing” alot when I’m making out with a nasally-endowed man. Anyway, does anyone else appreciate large noses as much as I do (I hope not, leave all the big noses for me)? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/2 "2003-03-23T04:19:33Z")
Eddie Jackson: “Y’know, Jimmy, up in Alaska the Eskimos kiss by rubbing noses together!” Jimmy Durante: “I’d’ a’ been the Clark Gable o’ _dat_ jernt!” ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/3 "2003-03-23T05:44:17Z")
While not quite obsessed, I will say that I love a large, strong-looking nose on a guy. I am NOT a fan of doughy, blobby large noses though… gimme a nose with some OOMPH to it. ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/4 "2003-03-23T06:06:45Z")
I now have a hilarious image of _pizzabrat_ stading around, petting her own nose - it makes me giggle. More on topic, I don’t find noses all that strange. But I do like it when a man has a little scar on his face. I don’t mean a great big scary I’m-in-the-mob type scar, but a little nick on the chin makes me weak in the knees. Does that make me weird? [sub]Or even better - in the eyebrow - you know where there’s a little gap in the hairs - mmm[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Christina25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Christina25](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Christina25)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/5 "2003-03-23T06:51:09Z")
Ahh but what women with big noses do for a lil dirty minded lesbian such as myself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/6 "2003-03-23T07:31:40Z")
Though I rarely encounter them, I love a big nose on a woman. Like [Rossy De Palma](http://justlovely.org/pics/rossy.jpg). She slays me. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/7 "2003-03-23T20:04:33Z")
**Pizzabrat** , you would like my sweety’s nose. You know that Indian on the Buffalo Nickel? With that cool-looking nose? Sweety’s looks like that. Sweet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/8 "2003-03-23T20:51:02Z")
Me too. I always picture a man with a strong nose (not beefy, but large) against a historical background. Guys with special noses do not come from today’s dull reality, but from a story or fairy-tale. A man with an ordinary nose has spent an ordinary day in the office, and comes home from his ordinary traffic-jam. A remarkable-nose guy has just come in from defending the castle, scheming in a medieval royal court, or taming some wild Mustangs on the prairie, or …you name it. And whatever the story is, I’m in. (Wearing a matching flowing dress and with long wild flowing hair, of course) Thats why I’m also a sucker for men with historical costumes. Give me a man in a kilt, toga, Celtic attire, tunic… drool My boyfriend has a large, pointy nose that makes him look a little like a Harlequin. He never thought it was his best feature. Maybe, but it’s one of the things I find most attractive about him. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/9 "2003-03-23T20:58:41Z")
I don’t mind an occasional schnozz-lovin’. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/10 "2003-03-23T21:10:01Z")
Oh man. I thought I was the only one who loved a large, strong nose on a man. I think **Maastricht** said it all for me. I’m also a sucker for the historical costumes. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/11 "2003-03-24T03:30:29Z")
i kinda realized too, that a nose makes or breaks the face as i see it. i am talking about ladies though 🙂 well basically no wonder because everything else on the face is rather smooth and not much different from person to person yet, took me quite a while to figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/12 "2003-03-24T04:53:48Z")
Man or woman, a good nose can make all the difference. As a matter of fact, Mr. Legend and I have always used the code, “Nice nose” to indicate we think someone’s attractive. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/13 "2003-03-24T05:32:25Z")
Oh yeah, a strong, dinstinctive, interesting nose attracts me. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/14 "2003-03-24T14:40:34Z")
Yeah, count me in with the “strong noses, yay!” group. Noses with naturally flared nostrils (like Joaquin Phoenix’s) are particularly attractive to me. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/15 "2003-03-24T15:17:17Z")
Someone once told me—admiringly—that I have a “power nose.” I haven’t yet tried to start a speedboat with it . . . ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/16 "2003-03-24T15:20:32Z")
Flared nostrils? Joaquin Phoenix did strike me as exceptionally handsome in the movie "Quills"and “Signs”. On second thought, his nose and flaring nostrils were a big part of the attraction. Nostrils like that make a face more alive; did you ever notice they move with emotion? Here another beautiful nose (with flaring nostrils as a bonus, too)[Noah Wyle (the character John Carter from E.R.)](http://www.nwmma.net/season8/8_1/cwdata/Dzl2043.html) ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/17 "2003-03-24T16:57:27Z")
Yes! Noah Wyle has beautiful nostrils! (Why, yes, I did laugh fitfully while typing that. It’s still true!) ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/18 "2003-03-24T17:49:20Z")
Oooh, can I be Secretary/Treasurer of this club? It’s so good to know that I’m not alone, as I thought I was [around Valentine’s Day](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162892&highlight=Crispin+Glover): > [@](#): > > I saw him at the company Christmas jamboree and was floored by his stunning big nose. (Yeah . . . I’ve got a thing for those. Carl Malden, no, but Crispin Glover or Joe Morton? Woo-wee! This particular nose was more the Crispin variety.) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/19 "2003-03-24T22:02:45Z")
You must be totally hot for Little Miss Best Actress Award! With that whole prosthetic nose thing going on! ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496/20 "2003-03-24T23:17:16Z")
I too am a lover of big noses. If you lined up all my exes, you’d have quite a dizzying array of honkin’ big schnozzes. Adrien Brody’s beak is lovely. So is Liam Neeson’s, Daniel Day Lewis’, and I’m sure you get the picture. As long as it’s a fairly narrow nose (I’m not too into the flaring nostrils, but I wouldn’t veto just based on that), I like a long bridge, straight or bent. In fact, some of the best noses are broken noses. It’s sexy as hell, especially when combined with a strong chin on a tall, lanky guy. Whoo hoo. Nice to see I’m not alone in my proclivity for prominent probosces. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-noses/163496.md?page=2)