Is the type of person you're attracted to or consider attractive hard-wired in you during childhood? [more inside]
posted by whitneykitty on Apr 4, 2007 - 42 answers

Why is it embarrassing not to have romantic interest reciprocated? [more inside]
posted by socrates on Sep 4, 2006 - 20 answers

This post (Catnip for the Ladies) was very interesting, but what if we're talking Catnip in the forty to fifty year old range? What qualities and partialities make the middle aged male attractive?
posted by TheManticore on Mar 7, 2006 - 28 answers

Catnip to the ladies: Four female friends of mine recently had a conversation about what makes an attractive man. Opinions varied, but in the end, three traits were deemed "universally very hot": riding a motorcycle, building things out of wood, and having been in more than a few fistfights growing up. This baffled me to no end. Help me compile a longer list. [more inside]
posted by the jam on Mar 2, 2006 - 121 answers