Strange things that you find attractive in a man/woman

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I'm like 3 hours past my usual time of falling asleep, so do forgive me if I make grammatical blunders and syntax errors.

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Do any of you find certain strange traits about a woman or a man that you find attractive? For example, I am very attracted to women who play musical instruments, the more instruments, the more attractive I find them. I'm also very attracted to women who hate cooking. I guess that would be my inner-cook wanting to come out though.

How about you guys/gals? (If I haven't confused you. D: )

Last edited by Jonsi on 06 Jul 2011, 12:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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I don't really think I have any specific traits I'm consistently attracted to. It's the whole package that interests me.

I will say this, though, you must not be stupid.

Women who share the same interests as I do. Although, unfortunately, there aren't many of them.

Although, to be fair, I don't really understand the whole idea of romantic attraction. Sexual attraction? Yes. Friendship? Yes. But romance? I don't really know.

1. intelligence.
2. A good sense of humor.
3. charisma.
4. Having self respect for yourself.
5. Being good at math.
6. Having a love for history.
7. Being able to play mind games.
8. Taking good care of yourself.
9. Having a positive attitude.
10. Being easy to get along with.

Hoop earrings.

Leather boots.

I like Leather Boots on girls or guys

Men who are musical/theatrical.
Men who don't conform to societal notions of masculinity.
Men with glasses.
Men with beards.
Men with long hair.

I'm the opposite- I don't understand sexual attraction or friendship, but am very strongly romantically-driven.

I'm with SammichEater. I don't really get romance. My ideal partner is a friend that I'm sexually attracted to.

I don't "get" it either, if we're talking about romance in the red roses and horribly-written love poems sense,
but a powerful emotional connection with someone beyond that of friendship, with no sexual attraction is my relationship-motivator.

Before I go into the question please allow me to preface my statement by saying that I am asexual. So while I can see that someone's attractive, I am not attracted to them. That said, I think that girls with glasses are much more attractive than girls without. I have no idea why, but since I was a teenager, it's always been that way.

I don't get the notion of human aesthetic standards, which seem quite arbitrary and transient culturally and historically,
and yet so universally-adhered to within those cultures.
A sumo wrestler is no less-attractive to me than Brad Pitt.

I DO experience greater attraction to individuals with certain, more elective aesthetic traits I have secondary associations with,
such as the glasses thing- I think because I, like a lot of people, rightly or wrongly find glasses to connote intelligence.
The beard and long hair preference is likely due to my penchant for non-conformity and naturality in general.

I don't rationally grasp seeing someone's attractive, but not being attracted to them.
It's to me akin to saying different variables are assigned different values
(for what meaning does attractiveness hold, if not even differentiation from those who don't exude/have it?)
but those values are nonetheless all still zero.

odd things i find attractive?

visible veins in the hands
bony knuckles
thick or dark eyebrows

there are more, but these just popped into my head

There many little things I find charming in a woman:

she tells me that I'm wrong about something

she's a little bit cocky

she knows many big words

she buys me flowers and cute stuff to remember her by

she's not sure whether she really wants to be with me (the first few months or so we are together)

she's sometimes over polite

she's taller than me

Good teeth
short fingernails
big hands

I don't know if these are odd?

As per the original post, which used interests as examples, I find myself attracted to women who are nervous and high strung.

On the physical front, my most distinct proclivity is for a woman with sallow, dusky eyelids. It wouldn’t be a deal breaker for me if a potential mate lacked this quality, or even something I’d miss, but I find it endearing. Pardon the conjecture, but I’ve often wondered whether it might be caused by diet, as I’ve often noticed long term vegans with eyelids like that (and I’m not implying I prefer women who are particularly health or weight conscious, as that is not the case at all).

However, ultimately specific markers of attractiveness are more remarkable for their failures than their successes. Except for neurons.