What's hot enough?

[ice_raven]

What an appalling lack of imagination!

So that’s how NOT to jump the numbers, huh?

[olm]

@daihatsu

Apart from the compelling argument for reproduction 20-somethings just don’t make the playoffs! While some men drool over “the promise in their young eyes”, and “the lithsome willowness of their bodies”; I would much rather spend my time with a more mature woman who can actually string along a sentence without having to resort to phrases such as “like… you know”, “no way”, and my personal peeve: Yapping on the cell and checking texts while we’re supposed to be conversing: “heeheehee… that was Mands, she like SMSed all her BFFs…”

That sounds so cliché - please tell me real 20 somethings in the US are NOT generally like this?!? I mean some girls in Europe or even Taiwan are like this… sure… and yep, it’s quite a turn-off. But is this so wide spread that you would rule out this age group completely?

@bababa

Shouldn’t you go with someone who is about the same level on the hotness scale as you? Depressing though that prospect may be. If you go out with someone who is WAY better-looking, it is extremely disconcerting to have to endure the shocked disbelief in people’s eyes when they finally realize you’re together and not just friends, and to endure the supposedly out-of-your-earshot conversations where they discuss what your partner could possibly see in you.

Hehe, this is what I’m fearing a bit when I ever would happen to live outside Taiwan with my girl. I might have a bit of the whitey bonus here in Taiwan, and she may not be exactly matching the Taiwanese anorexic white-skinned beauty ideal. So I guess we match up well here. But I’m almost afraid to go to Europe with her, other than just on a holiday trip. People can’t bother to differ between Taiwan and Thailand anyway, and certainly more than one would swear the answer to the inevitable discussion you mentioned above is “Must be money and only money”.

Oh, and on the topic: Hot enough is what gets you hot. If there are no additional turn-offs, even below-average looks can be incredibly hot - aided by personality, style, behavior, etc. In the past I often felt attracted most to certainly not overly attractive girls, that had something very special things about them. Not that I ever had the balls to try to date one, though Anyway, by now I found that a very attractive girl with a lot of special things about her is probably the hottest thing in the world

[Buttercup]

[quote=“ice raven”]What an appalling lack of imagination!

So that’s how NOT to jump the numbers, huh? [/quote]

Where else was I supposed to get cushions from? (Not for my personal use, i might add! Cushions! What sane person gives a fuck?)

[bismarck]

I’m more of a Plain Jane kinda guy. At least I should say, I’m usually attracted to women that most people would consider Plain Janes. I don’t usually find the beauty queen types attractive.

For example, I don’t think Charlize Theron is attractive at all. She’s not ugly or anything, but I don’t see what the fuss is about with women like her, Julia Roberts and that Welsh bird, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
And I usually like the tomboy type.

For some reason I’m also more attracted to “plump” women, or what Taiwanese would call fat. Arty and weird (meaning alternative… Hard to define what I mean) are also usually good combinations.

So, my ideal ten would be a plump, tomboyish Plain Jane that’s a little arty and weird.

Celebrity examples of my Perfect Ten would be:
Christina Ricci

Thora Birch

But that’s purely physical. As to someone I would date, have sex with or spend the rest of my life with, looks aren’t all that important at all to me. A connection with that person on a personal level would be what would hook me. I think Johnny Depp said it best in Don Juan DeMarco:

Don Juan: By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it’s true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the-the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are… glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect, because, I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it. So, to answer your question, I see as clear as day that this great edifice in which we find ourselves is your villa. It is your home. And as for you, Don Octavio DeFlores, you are a great lover like myself, even though you may have lost your way and your accent. Shall I continue?