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How sexy did you ever think you were ? (Original Post) olddots May 2013 OP
I've had brief moments where I felt sexy... CaliforniaPeggy May 2013 #1
you're still a ten olddots May 2013 #4
I was a 9 sometimes. In_The_Wind May 2013 #2
you were never a 9 olddots May 2013 #9
Oh my! In_The_Wind May 2013 #11
ITW... LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #15
LadyHawkAZ In_The_Wind May 2013 #16
In my late 20s and into my 30s, RebelOne May 2013 #3
I was a skinny, smart, rough 6. cliffordu May 2013 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Tuesday Afternoon May 2013 #6
I am totally off-the-charts sexy LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #7
I would never disagree with you! In_The_Wind May 2013 #18
In need of tires soon LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #20
Americade will be here soon. We won't ride up there. In_The_Wind May 2013 #29
I believe you... Aristus Jun 2013 #39
Awww LadyHawkAZ Jun 2013 #42
Oh my... Aristus Jun 2013 #43
Let's just say that back in the day, companionship was not a problem. OffWithTheirHeads May 2013 #8
I'm a dime. Chan790 May 2013 #10
Definitely a 10. femmocrat May 2013 #12
When I was good I was very very good. nolabear May 2013 #13
why last night my hand told me it had a head ache .... olddots May 2013 #14
0. I don't seem to be attractive to women at all. Katashi_itto May 2013 #17
Me too mythology May 2013 #19
:) Trophy wives is what I meant Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #40
On a good day I was as sexy as The Velveteen Ocelot May 2013 #21
You have a walrus mustache? Moondog May 2013 #28
No, but I slightly resemble a walrus The Velveteen Ocelot May 2013 #32
Indeed. Moondog May 2013 #34
I never really thought of myself as particularly sexy, Blue_In_AK May 2013 #22
That would be my response also ConcernedCanuk Jun 2013 #62
You and I would probably have started forest fires Blue_In_AK Jun 2013 #65
Never felt pretty in my younger days narnian60 May 2013 #23
Many years ago mokawanis May 2013 #24
Never thought of myself as sexy, Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #25
Sensual = sexy Aerows May 2013 #27
Yes...but it is not how I see myself. Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #35
I've always been a 10 Aerows May 2013 #26
Bingo! LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #33
Your avatar Aerows May 2013 #37
The term never occurred to me. Moondog May 2013 #30
Were? Major Nikon May 2013 #31
In the late 60s I was damn close to a 10. trof May 2013 #36
today someone told me I was cute as a button. does that count? Tuesday Afternoon May 2013 #38
You've got a VERY cute button. MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 #47
no, but ... occassionally - Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2013 #52
Ladies!: Aristus Jun 2013 #41
Hot... one_voice Jun 2013 #69
Aw, thanks... Aristus Jun 2013 #72
That play... LadyHawkAZ Jun 2013 #70
Thanks... Aristus Jun 2013 #73
I was a 5 twice, so I guess that makes me a 10. Arctic Dave Jun 2013 #44
My perfect ten, not a nice story... hunter Jun 2013 #45
Interesting story hunter, thanks... Locut0s Jun 2013 #48
Me? Is there a minus one on your scale? My wife, on the other hand...... DFW Jun 2013 #46
Is that you in the pic with her? Locut0s Jun 2013 #50
Yep, that's me all right, turban and all DFW Jun 2013 #53
You have a fantastic looking family! And again minus my ass... Locut0s Jun 2013 #59
Oh yeah, I tried going beardless. BAD move. DFW Jun 2013 #61
If you ever decide to go beardless look for something called Magic Powder Lucinda Jun 2013 #75
Thanks for the tip DFW Jun 2013 #76
I've been told I look quite the handsome guy when I'm thinner... Locut0s Jun 2013 #49
An irrational number . . . Anymouse Jun 2013 #51
It's really hard to put a number on me! Pholus Jun 2013 #54
At the time, I would have said a 5. Nothing special. SwissTony Jun 2013 #55
Do you get any side benefits from your looks? ;) Locut0s Jun 2013 #58
Oh, yes. I was quite the lad. SwissTony Jun 2013 #63
So sexy it hurts. Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2013 #56
Put it this way....I'm better looking at 58 than I was 25 years ago! pink-o Jun 2013 #57
Hell, I don't think I'm sexy, I KNOW I'm sexy. nt Demo_Chris Jun 2013 #60
About the same as you! treestar Jun 2013 #64
I never had any complaints. hrmjustin Jun 2013 #66
sexy isn't a word i use to describe myself fizzgig Jun 2013 #67
In my younger days I've been known to stop traffic lunatica Jun 2013 #68
When I see myself in the mirror, I'm about a 6. On video tape I'm like -3. Bucky Jun 2013 #71
Don't worry everyone hates themselves on tape. nt Locut0s Jun 2013 #77
I was busty and breathless and sweet applegrove Jun 2013 #74

CaliforniaPeggy

(156,620 posts)
1. I've had brief moments where I felt sexy...
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:33 PM
May 2013

But these were few and far between!

I was a 10 at those times...

But it's been so infrequent as to be laughable.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
11. Oh my!
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:51 PM
May 2013
Where have you been all of my life? You probably would have put my drawings up on the refrigerator when I was a child.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
3. In my late 20s and into my 30s,
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:42 PM
May 2013

I was close to a 10. Not so much any more as I am now 74.

cliffordu

(30,994 posts)
5. I was a skinny, smart, rough 6.
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:44 PM
May 2013

But the gals liked this bad boy all over the place.

Still do, some of them. lol....

Response to olddots (Original post)

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
7. I am totally off-the-charts sexy
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:46 PM
May 2013

Always have been and always will be.

OK, maybe at 40 I've downgraded from "off the charts" to a mere "100 on the scale of 1 to 10", but that's all the ground I'm going to give.

I am damn hot. Also brilliant and possessing a great sense of humor. I even have nice eyes.

I dare ya to disagree.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
18. I would never disagree with you!
Fri May 31, 2013, 06:09 PM
May 2013

How's your bike?

I think I finally feel like going for a ride tomorrow. It'll be my first in over two years. I didn't even renew the registration last year.

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
20. In need of tires soon
Fri May 31, 2013, 07:07 PM
May 2013

It's not bad yet but the front end is starting to get the noticeable wobblies. B/f just fixed his stator and has his back on the road again, so we will both be riding this weekend.

Enjoy your ride!

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
29. Americade will be here soon. We won't ride up there.
Fri May 31, 2013, 08:03 PM
May 2013

I've replaced my front tire 3 times cause trikes are hard on the front.


Enjoy being out there together.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
10. I'm a dime.
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:49 PM
May 2013

When I can stick to a diet long enough to get back to 190, that is. It's harder every year. I tend to be thinnest in the fall.

Tall, dark, sleek-headed, thin, muscular, cute face, nerdy glasses and a sense of style. Brilliant, witty, charming and modest.

What more could anybody want?

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
12. Definitely a 10.
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:53 PM
May 2013

I was an "early bloomer" and always had plenty of boys interested. But alas, I got married very young and that was the end of my magnetic attractions.

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
13. When I was good I was very very good.
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:53 PM
May 2013

But now that I'm bad I'm better.

(With apologies to Mae West)

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
14. why last night my hand told me it had a head ache ....
Fri May 31, 2013, 05:55 PM
May 2013

I used to do the Fuck-O- Meter sometimes , like when you're in a room and you look around and think of who you are attracted to -----humans are weird .

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
17. 0. I don't seem to be attractive to women at all.
Fri May 31, 2013, 06:07 PM
May 2013

It's the breaks I guess.

Pretty much gave up, working on my CPA and Law degree.

You can't buy love, but you can rent a close approximation of it.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
28. You have a walrus mustache?
Fri May 31, 2013, 08:00 PM
May 2013

C'mon. I'm a guy, and I never had a mustache that was that cool.

And I'd be willing to bet you don't either.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
34. Indeed.
Fri May 31, 2013, 08:21 PM
May 2013

You are, of course, familiar with Peter Paul Rubens?

He was a fan. There are others.

Don't sell yourself short.

You're sure about the mustache?

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
22. I never really thought of myself as particularly sexy,
Fri May 31, 2013, 07:25 PM
May 2013

but I must have been, because back in the day the boys couldn't seem to keep their hands (and so on) off me. I've never lacked for male companionship, sometimes more than I wanted.

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
62. That would be my response also
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 07:34 AM
Jun 2013

.
.
.

as well as not having to "chase" girls/women.

I was not swamped, but never did "without" when I was looking/available.

Maybe I give off an aura or something - seems that a girl I'm "sweet" on KNOWS - and then hones in on me - mostly to my liking.

Mind you - this attribute has slowed down in the last 3 decades - my "hottest" time if ya wanna call it that, was when I was 29-30 - a Canuck living in San Diego California. Them California girls could not leave me alone!

I hated it

After returning to Canada after 14 months in California, I still had an "attraction" thing going. Of course I was brown as a berry, and had picked up a USAmerican accent which intrigued the fairer sex.

I expect part of my attraction is even to this day is that I do not think of myself as particularly "sexy" nor handsome. So I don't got that "attitude" that turns people away.

Been single and poor for quite a while.

Not poor anymore - and no intention to stay single.

"she" will find me.



CC

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
65. You and I would probably have started forest fires
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 01:16 PM
Jun 2013

if we had met up back in the day with all our hotness.

narnian60

(3,510 posts)
23. Never felt pretty in my younger days
Fri May 31, 2013, 07:32 PM
May 2013

because I was so insecure & teased so much about being tall & thin. Of course, now when I look back at pictures I can see I was a freakin' 10. Nothing like letting other people's crappy opinions rule your life for too long.

mokawanis

(4,489 posts)
24. Many years ago
Fri May 31, 2013, 07:38 PM
May 2013

when I walked by a bar downtown 4 women held up numbered cards, apparently rating me by my appearance. They all gave me an 8. I assumed they were all drunk.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
25. Never thought of myself as sexy,
Fri May 31, 2013, 07:40 PM
May 2013

it was never how I self-identified. I was rather surprised to find out, when going into my senior year of high school, that I was considered sexy and had an interesting, non-offensive, nickname among the guys. Recently I was amazed at an almost off the charts score on a "how sensual are you test" I'm 65 now...I wonder what I would have scored taking a similar test at 25. I am not usually so clueless!

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
26. I've always been a 10
Fri May 31, 2013, 07:49 PM
May 2013

And I'll be a 10 until I'm in the grave. It's not all about looks.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
30. The term never occurred to me.
Fri May 31, 2013, 08:04 PM
May 2013

Years ago I gave up trying to figure out what women found appealing, and what wasn't appealing. It seemed like, and still does actually, a fool's errand.

I could get a date. Which was all I cared about. I suspect that I still can. Beyond that, who cares?

trof

(54,274 posts)
36. In the late 60s I was damn close to a 10.
Fri May 31, 2013, 08:47 PM
May 2013

If we're talking a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being...well...

1. I was in my mid 20s and a fighter pilot.
2. I drove an MGB, British Racing Green, of course.
Very cool, especially in Alabama.

Of course it had the knock-off wheel hubs and the supplied little rubber mallet with which to knock them off.

3. I had HAIR!
4. I used Brylcreem on the locks.
"A little dab'll do ya
5. I wore English Leather cologne.

6. My squadron mates and I would visit downtown bars after a night refueling mission in our flight suits.
6.a We could not pay for a drink. Civilian patrons were too happy to buy.
6.b Unattached ladies (and sometimes the 'attached' ones) flocked.

I know this sounds crass and sexist and just horrible.
But that's the way it was.
The times were what they were.
No apologies.

Aristus

(72,187 posts)
41. Ladies!:
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 12:09 AM
Jun 2013


I was playing Montresor in a local production of "The Cask Of Amontillado".

I don't know how sexy I actually was (this was 15 years ago), but it's hard not to feel sexy when you're carrying a candlabrum. (And a trowel, if that's your thing... )

Maybe it's the ruffly shirt...



Aristus

(72,187 posts)
72. Aw, thanks...
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 09:16 PM
Jun 2013


But speaking of the candles, I wish we had taken this pic a little earlier in the run. I had used the same set of candles all throughout rehearsals, and they had become caked with drizzly hardened wax; a very effective and spooky look.

They got too short, though, and had to be replaced with new ones for the performance run. The new, clean, straight candles that you see in the pic just don't have the same effect that the others did.

hunter

(40,691 posts)
45. My perfect ten, not a nice story...
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 12:55 AM
Jun 2013

...I'd been accepted back to college, I was taking oral steroids to control my asthma.

My girlfriend was a lesbian with a preference for skinny drug addict girl-waifs. I was sort of like that when we first met, no drug addictions, but a skinny strange guy. She kept me around to prove to herself and her family she wasn't queer. I even changed my religion for her, My Big Fat Geek Wedding style.

I'd been working as a furniture mover. I was getting pretty strong. She was strong too. She started feeding me and taking me to the gym. To anyone watching us we were the smoking hot couple. There was no sex even though her mom and fundamentalist freak pervert dad thought so. But that's what she wanted, even after her dad died. It made her normal and it made me, the high school "queerbait," normal. A perfect utterly dysfunctional and hopeless couple.

We'd skinny-dip and shower in the men's gym together along with her waif girlfriend who she later married. The men who objected would flee fearing erections, but they did not complain. They'd seen two naked women!!! The same rules did not apply in the womens' gym showers. Men had to be invited and most of those men were gay or transgendered. I was allowed because I was mostly harmless. It was the 'seventies and early 'eighties, what can I say? Streaking and nudity and sharing showers would not get you on any sex offenders list.

Go ahead, take off your clothes at the river.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
48. Interesting story hunter, thanks...
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 04:13 AM
Jun 2013

Like I said about one of your other posts, you've lived an interesting life and I'm a little envious even if it's a little fucked up Mine is too, at least yours is interesting. I often wish I'd crown up during the late 60s and 70s, seems like an era that I might have fit into. Hard to say.

DFW

(60,186 posts)
46. Me? Is there a minus one on your scale? My wife, on the other hand......
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 01:01 AM
Jun 2013

She is a different story altogether:

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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
50. Is that you in the pic with her?
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 04:17 AM
Jun 2013

You are right she's hot

If that's you I don't know WTF you are talking about you look fine! Even if it's not I'm sure you look fine, minus my ass.

DFW

(60,186 posts)
53. Yep, that's me all right, turban and all
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 08:25 AM
Jun 2013

Last edited Sat Jun 1, 2013, 09:20 AM - Edit history (1)

And I got shot down SO many times before meeting her, I always figured I must be a minus on the scale. As my wife is near-sighted, I just attributed my luck to the fact that she never used to like wearing her glasses. She does make a mean turban, though, even without her glasses.

Anyway, it all worked out for the best--our girls got mostly her genes:

[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

Made the next generation of guys happy.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
59. You have a fantastic looking family! And again minus my ass...
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 08:23 PM
Jun 2013

You look great! Love the beach side BTW. Have you tried going beardless? Though honestly you look more professorial this way which is always nice.

DFW

(60,186 posts)
61. Oh yeah, I tried going beardless. BAD move.
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 03:36 AM
Jun 2013

Last edited Sun Jun 2, 2013, 04:16 AM - Edit history (1)

Me and Yassir Arafat. The reason he never shaved with a razor was not because he was trying to look like a gritty warrior, but because he had super-sensitive skin on his face which made him break out in an ugly rash if he used a razor.

I have the same problem. If I shave (electric razor or straight, it doesn't matter), my face turns redder than a boiled lobster. That didn't exactly do wonders for my already minimal social life at age 17. At age 18 I stopped shaving altogether. Better to look like Blackbeard the Pirate than a baboon's ass.

That pic was from the outskirts of Truro, Massachusetts, where it's only 6 miles from the bay beach to the ocean beach. It's tranquil, clean, and the one place we disappear to without fail every year to recharge batteries. We've been doing it for almost 30 years now, and although it's not the easiest place to get to from the German Rheinland, we know the locals now, and have pretty much integrated it into our lives. I'm glad I won't live to see it disappear under the rising sea in about 100 years.

By the way, the OP asked how sexy "did you "THINK you were?" After getting blown off about 100 times out of 100 in my tender youth, I figured I must be negative. My problem was that I refused to conform to the prevailing version of "cool."

You are right in your implication, though: connecting with a tall beautiful European can change your outlook in a BIG way, especially when I found out she couldn't care less what was considered "cool" in places she'd never been. We raised our daughters to think the same way. They both have the same attitude: "Don't you tell ME what's cool and what's not, and don't you dare tell me there's stuff I'll never be able to do."

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
75. If you ever decide to go beardless look for something called Magic Powder
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 03:31 AM
Jun 2013

It is a powder that was developed for men with sensitive skin - no blades involved.

DFW

(60,186 posts)
76. Thanks for the tip
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 05:23 AM
Jun 2013

However, at this point, after over 40 years, I think I'll just let nature do what nature intended.

Besides, my wife and daughters probably wouldn't recognize me any more.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
49. I've been told I look quite the handsome guy when I'm thinner...
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 04:15 AM
Jun 2013

I have some pics but am too embarrassed to post given the fat ass I've let myself become. I remember a few girls hitting on me at that time so I suppose it was true, though I was too shy to do anything about it. Not that I look horrible now. My weight has been up and down a LOT over the years, usually accompanied by equal swings in mood, not always in proportion though. I was at my skinniest, dangerously so, at one of my low points. Right now is another very low point and I'm at one of my heaviest.

Anymouse

(120 posts)
51. An irrational number . . .
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 04:26 AM
Jun 2013

. . . the square root of some small fraction close to zero.

These days, I may have moved up all the way to the square root of -1, a totally imaginary number, but my wife assures my fifty-three year-old hippie long hair liberal 125# 5'10" frame is fine for her - she just doesn't like that I am not a "classic conservative" like herself.

And she baked me a cake yesterday for my birthday. She fetes me with treats, I can occasionally overlook the conservatism.

Pholus

(4,062 posts)
54. It's really hard to put a number on me!
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 09:23 AM
Jun 2013

Definitely never been at the top of that scale given that random people I meet rarely throw themselves at me (maybe 2-3 times in my life and frankly even then I was too flustered to respond credibly).

Then again, I haven't had many dry spells either. When I initiate I am rarely turned down.

So all in all, physically maybe a 4 or 5 but a really good personality?

I like to joke the maker knew exactly what she was doing when she gave me this body. It's kept me honest but it's never let me down when it mattered.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
55. At the time, I would have said a 5. Nothing special.
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 10:28 AM
Jun 2013

Looking back, I was gorgeous (can males be gorgeous?). I know it sounds like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but when I look at the photos of me when I was in my late 20s, I ask myself "Was that me????" I was thin, had long black hair and a more than decent body.

Arguably, I should have known better. I never lacked for female friends, some of them drop dead gorgeous. I thought it was because of my sense of humour. One of my lady friends used to frequently tell me how pretty I was. I thought she did that so she could see me blush and curl into a ball. I'm sure that was part of it, but by no means all.

So maybe an 8.5/9 with hindsight.

Now, I'm 62. All such considerations belong to the past. My wife and my dog love me.


pink-o

(4,056 posts)
57. Put it this way....I'm better looking at 58 than I was 25 years ago!
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 08:00 PM
Jun 2013

Which is by no means a boast on how I look now!!! just that I'm finally comfortable in my own skin--just as it's starting to sag!

But I think sexiness is an attitude, more than any superficial attributes. And as a tall, gawky, skinny female, I never felt sexy. I think Miss Jane Hathaway from Beverly Hillbillies was on a par with me--and Nancy Kulp was gay!

Ah, well. Old age means never having to say you're sexy.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
64. About the same as you!
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:31 AM
Jun 2013

But I was just attractive - never sexy. Did not have the personality, which, I have am now convinced, in spite of what the media and people say, is much more important than how you look.

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
67. sexy isn't a word i use to describe myself
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 03:18 PM
Jun 2013

i'm sure i can and have been in the past, but not a word i'd use on myself.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
68. In my younger days I've been known to stop traffic
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 03:47 PM
Jun 2013

But then I had long blond hair and grew up in Mexico where just being a woman will stop traffic. Latino men do love women!

Being 64 now not so much. I like both ways. It was OK to be sexy, and now it's OK not to be.



Bucky

(55,334 posts)
71. When I see myself in the mirror, I'm about a 6. On video tape I'm like -3.
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 06:42 PM
Jun 2013

Videotape hates me.

applegrove

(132,217 posts)
74. I was busty and breathless and sweet
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 02:35 AM
Jun 2013

and I looked like a "B" movie actress what with my ski jump nose. 16 year olds liked me no matter what my age in highschool. I was far too shy to make an emotional connection with any of them. It was the right choice. I now look like who I am which is a relief.

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