NSFW (if you want)- What percentage of the opposite sex do you find attractive?

This is really hard to answer. I’d say like… 70–80% of men. Probably 90% of women.

Every time I leave the house, I’d say 60% of the women I see throughout the day are attractive. Now, on the weekends or when I go out, probably 90%.

Out of all the females I’ve seen: roughly 60% I’d say

Out of all the males: .001%

Out of ts/tv: roughly 15%

Do you want us to consider only the times we were sober?

Holy bloody cow, @Imadethisupwithnoforethought, I wouldn’t begin to know how to estimate. I’d probably say most, as it takes extremes to turn me off. Physical extremes I don’t find at all appealing, both too unfit and too overfit built up, obviously body pride being too emphasized and extremes in demeanor turn me off, too insecure, too arrogant… I don’t know where any of that falls on the curve.

@bkcunningham Give an estimate of both if you have time.

@JilltheTooth my next question is going to be if men can change their looks by poor behavior. I am just trying to set a baseline here

3½

Heterosexual female.

How many men do I find attractive when I’m sober? 99 percent
How many mend do I find attractive when I’m not sober? 100 percent

Man, I don’t know. There’s definitely a certain look that I’m attracted to and when a guy has the look in some way, I think him to be attractive almost immediately. However, there are other times where someone who doesn’t fit my traditional idea of attractive seems attractive to me for various reasons. Then there are times when I’m exceptionally horny and almost every guy I see looks attractive to me…

10% of men.
25% of women.

I think my answer would be different if I lived somewhere else.

Hey, @Imadethisupwithnoforethought , this is your 100th Q! Good on yer, buddy!

I’m a female and I find on average about 3 men out of 10 to be sexually attractive. I find maybe 5 out of 10 men to be attractive as far as good looking but not my cup of tea.

Oh, sexually attractive.

35% of women, maybe.

@JilltheTooth thanks! (I think im really at like 104, but your daughter keeps modding me! :)

Not anymore, she doesn’t!

Oh. Sexually attractive? Maybe 50%.

I know the answer is a moving target. As I close in on 70, it is amazing how sexagenarians and septuagenarians whom I would never have given a second glance forty years ago now look quite attractive. I don’t know the exact number, but I’m sure it’s 60 to 70%. I’m married and not at all in the market, so I’m just thinking who I could imagine being in a sexual relationship with if they should find me attractive enough. Surely most of those four or five decades younger than me would be just like I was at their age, they would never dream of coming on to me.

Doesn’t matter to me whether it’s a male or female. I care about relationship and if sex is involved, my partner finding me sexy enough to honestly respond. Hooker like fakery is easily detected and a total turn off to me. So gold diggers—forged aboudit. :-)

Will respond to this tomorrow evening after I collect some data.

“Please use the set of all the women you have met.”
Seriously, I can’t possibly recall past yesterday. You also tend to recall only the ones you want to.
I don’t oogle and rate.

Based on physical attraction alone? Um… like .3%, max. There are lots more I think are generally attractive, but not to the point where I want to be around them just based on physicality. Based on personality, intellect, chemistry, that stuff? Maybe 50–60 % of the people I can stand to be around, which is maybe 15% of the population, at best. This goes for all the genders.

I started with the idea I’d find 25% of women attractive, but as I read through what other people say, I find myself lowering the number, oddly enough. So get this: I work on a campus, and most of the women I see are between the ages of 18 and 25. An believe me, I look.

There are a lot of hotties, compared to the rest of the world, and yet, I’d say that about one in five of the women I see are attractive enough to make my eye follow them. Maybe even less. Today, I think there were three that made me want to turn around and follow them, and I fantasized about what I might say.

I have never in my life done such a thing, but the fantasy is there. I’m much too old to do this, and besides, I have a family I would never want to hurt by even trying to get involved with a student. As if that’s not enough, it would probably lose me my job.

But these are the women who make my heart skip a beat. Three today. Sometimes there are more, and maybe there are days when there are none. Of course, I may see several hundred girls in a day. Maybe as many as a thousand.

The more I talk about it, the lower the percentage gets. I’m down to 5%. Five percent of the women I see I think are truly attractive, and maybe 1% are stunning.

I don’t think anyone will be surprised that I wouldn’t say I generally use beauty as a screen for potential relationships. If I did that, there’d be no potential at all. However, I do think my wife is beautiful. Not stunning, but definitely beautiful, and I’ve also had the pleasure of having relationships with one or two others who were quite beautiful in my mind.

I’m Queer, I’m into all genders. Of all genders and people, I’m attracted intellectually to very very few but physically to about 30%.

Can you define “find attractive?” There are a lot of people I would describe as good looking, but that number is very different from the number of people I would be willing to or want to become intimate with.

@nikipedia I was very unclear apparently, although, mostly women are calling me on it, which tells me something in itself.

I meant sexual, would have sex with.

@ETpro Same story here. As I approach 70 it’s astounding how the ratios change. Why wasn’t it like this at 17? I’m divorced, and I definitely note the women, and some of the best are at 60 and up…..I would say 30% of the one’s I see (depends on where I am) are quite attractive, in my age group, and many are unattached and looking. It’s a good life.

To be honest I don’t think there is a huge difference between the number of people I have wanted to have sex with in my life and the number of people I have actually had sex with. That Venn diagram has a lot of overlap.

Then again, the number of people I would be willing to have sex with does not 100% correspond with the number of people I have actually had sex with.

Yeah @plethora the high number I quoted is for people I could imagine pairing up with and feeling no sense of revulsion. I am FAR more interested in their personality and how we relate than their looks—but I do have my limits. :-)

If we’re talking the head turning kind of attractiveness, the kind where I’ll walk a few blocks out of my way just to watch someone move, that is an infinitely smaller set. Mostly women with slim waist and bubble bottoms. That’s my weakness.

It’s got to be pretty high, for me… I’d guess at least 60% of men and 40% of women. Not that I think they are crazy attractive, just that it takes a lot to make someone unattractive to me. These aren’t people I’d necessarily fantasize about, but people I could imagine having sex with if I thought about it.

I’m a heterosexual male, age 28. If you had asked me this question when I was a shallow teenager, and the percentage would have been very low.

Now days, the percentage is very high. I have learned to like many different shapes and sizes and personaities, as long as you are not actively being an asshole, chances are I can find you attractive.

If we are talking about just the physical, then 95% of females, 5% of males. I never look at another man and say “oh yes he is attractive” but I some times think “ah yes, I can see how females would find this man attractive”.

If we are talking about the whole package, body and mind, then maybe 70% of females, and 0.2% of males. (the stereotypical mr. right, handsome doctor with a 6 pack and a sensetive side.)

I’ve really no idea, I mean it’s not something I go around thinking about.
Now that it’s been asked, I guess i’d say it depends on any given day.
Sometimes it’s like we’ve been invaded by the inhabitants of uglytown, while other days throw up a fair share of eye candy to feast my eyes upon.

I agree with ^ – especially the throwing up part. I think there is some beauty in every woman I meet – just sometimes it’s too well hidden behind the ugliness. Percentages are for statisticians. Okay, about 10%.

Women in general: 55%
Women I would find sexually attractive: 12%

I am seriously fussy and tend to only find the “TYPE” alluring…..about 3% of the men I see on a daily basis…..

2% for this mornings commute.

It takes several factors for me to find a woman attractive since I’m more of an emotional rather than a visual person when it comes to what attracts me. I’m a straight guy but there are 3 things that are important to me in finding any woman attractive: 1. I’m generally only into women that already like me 2. Personality is everything, even at first. They must be down-to-earth and straightforward with me, since I hate facades. 3. Looks are a factor but there were many average (or even below average women) that I have found much more attractive/sexy depending on the way they carried themselves and behaved around me.

Given that I’m a more emotional ather than a visual guy it is tough for me to answer this. I would say maybe around 10% of all women I’ve ever met did I find attractive. Looks are somewhat important to me but only to a degree.

Probably 30%.

3%.

Believe me, I get the most out of that 3%.

This is really difficult to answer. I would think perhaps about 60% of women and 30% of men, but I’m only guessing.

Male.
Girls: 80%
Boys: 40%

@rebbel What’s the percentage of Penguins?

@janbb Male penguins: 40%, female penguins: 80%
bb penguins: 99%

And puppies, @rebbel ? What are the numbers for puppies???

@JilltheTooth On a regular day I have three for breakfast….;-)

@rebbel What are bb penguins?

Hmm, straight female.

10–20% of men
incalculable % of trans men (some of them are hot, but I don’t have the data for percents)
0.1% of women (on a very rare occasion I see a boyish girl I like the look of)