A Sexy Meme

Over on his LJ, zamiel says here:

So, tell me, what do you find lust-inducing in the body of a potential lover? Physical only, please. Its far too easy to hand-wave out the "I love the brains." If that was true, every one of my readers would be camped out on my doorstep nightly, waiting for their number to be called over a loudspeaker and happily whispering at the opportunity they've been granted.

Yes, that includes the men.

Let's start a new meme. You post your ideals and discussions of same in your blog and make sure to send a link therein back over here, perhaps even a short quote. If you think of it, post a follow-up comment here with a URL to your particular tastes. Let's see if the blogosphere will ripple to our interests, shall we?

It sounds like an interesting meme, so I'll list a couple of my turn ons.

Voice: This is not a deal-breaker, necessarily, but it takes a lot for me to get over. I really, really love a guy with an attractive, resonant voice, and I get easily turned off by those guys who think it's impossible to speak in a lower tone than a shout, or who have various unappealing vocal qualities. Pitch doesn't matter much, I don't require a bass or whatever, but it shouldn't grate on my ears or involve spit. And accents, just about /any/ accents, are a serious turn on.

Glasses: This could just be wishful thinking talking (as I where them myself), but I find something incredibly sexy about glasses. Perhaps it how they frame the eyes for attention, or something. But a guy who wears glasses, and more, a guy who wears glasses without being embarassed or apologetic about it, is a real turn on.

Hands: I like looking at men's hands. Strong, well-proportioned hands are a turn on to me...they don't have to be a particular size, as long as they look like they belong to the wrist to which they are attached. Fingers with some grace, with well-kept nails (not manicured, but not all ragged and torn), are attractive to me. It's not a major issue, and I'd never reject someone based on their hands, but it's a nice thing.

Hair: I like dark-haired men, primarily, and beyond that I only ask that it be well-groomed and clean. I also have a noticible attraction to bald men. Naturally bald, or shaved bald, it doesn't matter. I just think it looks sexy sexy for some reason. (Yes, Vin Diesel rocks my world.)

So, for the rest of you, keep the meme going! What do you find attractive (physical only!)? Post it in your LJ, and link back to here, and let's see what the blogosphere's tastes run to.

More Professor Quotes

"We're not in the business of confusing our clients. If you want to confuse someone, send them to a psychiatrist."

"I can teach you how to make someone schitzophrenic in a week. Go home, try it on your friends. It's fun!"

"No one's ever going to come you and say, 'My life is horrible...and I'm okay with that. How can we make me more miserable?'"

"Adolescent boys, as those of you who have dated them already know, only have three feelings: they're hungry, they're pissed, or they're horny."

In more serious news, I love this class. In two classes, I feel like I've learned more than in most of my other classes, period. So joyful. And, I have clean dishes, although I cut my finger in achieving this. My second day at work went quite well. I had to be bored for about two hours at the start of it, but then someone finally took pity on me and gave me something to do. I did it, and it was interesting. Also, about half of our graduate students are from China or Korea. This leads to an interesting phenomenon: random vocabulary quizzes.

I was trying to make a professor's program work, and he and his grad student (both Chinese) suddenly turned to me and asked, "So...what /is/ the difference between 'crush' and 'crash'?" And you know, if you're not thinking about that at the time, suddenly it becomes very hard to put it into words. I finally managed it, at which point they sprung 'clash' on me, and then we went off on the difficulty of figuring out when to use 'economic' and 'economical'. And then, today, the grad student who I am learning the computer stuff from, also Chinese, asked me a similar vocabulary question. It's odd, but intellectually stimulating. It's interesting how many words you know, but don't exactly know how to define to someone who /doesn't/ know them.

Finally, there's some sort of athletic team practicing in the field outside my window. It'd damned cold out there, and they're running around with flashy sticks waving in random patterns. I am thoroughly confused.