The Most And Least Attractive "Male" Hobbies

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https://datepsychology.com/the-most-and ... e-hobbies/

Hint: Geeky hobbies are rated among the lowest.

And ah, guys, you should start forging swords and shields.

Funny that coin collecting is not mentioned, but stamp collecting is. I guess there is a perception difference. Both can make you some serious money if you know what you are doing with vintage coins and stamps.

Comic book collecting is not all the same. There are different levels of comic book collecting. Some only collect certain superheros (Superman, Batman, etc), while others go a different route. I collect early horror comics that brought the Comics Code into existence in 1955. Many people are surprised at how graphic they were back then. It was common to have decapitations, radiation burns, murders right on the front covers. How else were they going to get the kids to read them? Some of my vintage comic books are rarer than a Superman #1, just no way near the value due to current demand. That can change with time.

I personally know a large comic book dealer in Las Vegas who has a multi-million dollar comic book collection. He has the highest graded copy of a very famous 1950s horror comic. Last time it was valued, it was in the $400,000-500,000 range. He did not pay half of that for it, as the market keeps going up on it. I do not have any at that level, but maybe someday I will hit the comics lottery.

Perception of comic book collectors is that we are fat nerds. That puts us down on the dating ladder automatically according to the article. So be it. I can enjoy my books in peace without someone else demanding me to sell them until I need to for retirement.

I also noticed that car collecting is not listed. I wonder why that one was left off. Many women have issues with men coveting cars. It seems that they do not like things that take attention away from them. Sorry but a mint 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona driving by will always have my eyes glued to it.

At the bottom of the article:

I like that they included Magic The Gathering.

I’m not so sure. I think it depends on various factors. Something else the study didn’t mention is the age of the women polled in their “convenience sample.”

Here are the most popular Master’s degrees for men and women in 2016:



https://www.collegeatlas.org/top-master ... -by-gender

Maybe there’s often less of a “nerd” culture among highly educated women than there is with men, not that I want to go the stereotype route… Apart from the nerd stuff, social status could play some role in the other preferences mentioned.

Main point: You can’t say what women prefer when your sample isn’t sufficiently representative of the given population.

This is an interesting part of the article. I suspect it could be true in a broader sense although we’d need a more representative sample.

So what "female" hobbies are the most and least attractive to men? I've got a a feeling all my own hobbies are the least attractive to most adult humans.

Many of the items listed on the link are not hobbies. They are professions or descriptions of processes that are rarely of themselves a hobby but rather they lead to hobbies such as reading. One could suggest brushing teeth or putting on and off ones clothes is a hobby as it tallies on a similar level as reading or writing as they are descriptions of doing things.
Yet really big hobbies such as restoring motor cars or model railways or cycling or restoring bicycles, or playing computer games... Loads of hobbies that are PROPER hobbies. Not descriptions of doing something with is so general one may include "Sitting down" or "Walking" onto the list as most of us can walk or sit down on a seat...
The list is rather stupid to be honest and the ones compiling the list do not really know what the term "Hobby" means!

^ That graph is from the same link. It’s towards the end.

Any hobby that doesn't include tissues and a bottle of lube is good with me.


Adds: Fishing, boating, reading, writing, ghost-hunting, spelunking, rescuing animals, cooking, gardening, playing a musical instrument, playing sports, construction, graphic design .... etc.