How would you react to a gay person who found you TOTALLY repulsive ?

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Theoretically, some of the unenlightened would be relieved to have absolutely no sex appeal to a potential same sex partner.

Most of my male relatives, for instance . .




I'd even bet there are guys out there that would be interested in knowing how to dress and act to further lower their potential appeal.

The thing is, I would imagine that if a man were totally repulsive to gay men, he would likely also be repulsive to straight women.  If you want, you can set up a poll in a new thread with links to pictures of famous actors (with some of them unattractive), and have gay men and straight women rate them (so the poll options would be something like, "I am a gay man and Mr. X is attractive," "I am a gay man and Mr. X is repulsive," "I am a gay man and Mr. X is neither very attractive nor very repulsive," "I am a straight woman and Mr. X is attractive," etc.).  My guess is that if done on a large enough scale (to avoid the results being skewed by outliers), for the most part, the men who are most attractive to gay men would also be attractive to straight women, and the ones most repulsive to gay men would be repulsive to straight women.

Now I am thinking maybe an online search for such a thing might be in order, to see if this has been tested or not.

EXCELLENT idea.

It would be interesting to see how many gay men and straight women agreed on which male celebrities are hot,
and which aren't.

I think it obviously depends on the person.

Tonnes of straight women think Brad Pitt is hot, for example,
and while I would never deny that he is a good-looking man,
I can honestly say that he does nothing for me;

but I venture to say that a lot of gay men would probably hit that, if they could,
as would many straight women.

I will throw out a few samples, now....all of whom I acknowledge are good-looking men,
but I don't really find them sexually attractive, personally:

Brad Pitt (obviously)
George Clooney
Johnny Depp
Ryan Gosling
Zac Efron
Jake Gyllenhaal
Will Smith
Jamie Foxx
Daniel Craig
James Franco
Ryan Reynolds
Ralph Fiennes
Harrison Ford
Matthew McConaghey
Matt Damon
Wesley Snipes
Denzel Washington
Jude Law
Ewan McGregor
Leonardo DiCaprio
Orlando Bloom
Gerard Butler
Bradley Cooper
David Beckham
Robert Pattinson
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Grant
Henry Cavill


Male celebrities I find somewhat attractive:

Clive Owen
Jason Statham
Benedict Cumberbatch
Heath Ledger
Alex Minsky
Antonio Banderas
Matt Smith

And male celebrities I definitely find attractive:


Viggo Mortensen
Hugh Laurie
Crispin Glover
John Cusack