a real man

[ritaxis]

whenever I visit romance sites I bump into the non-question: "Is there anything sexier than a former Marine with a gorgeous body?" (Really. every time)

Yes, yes, there is.  A former marine isn't sexy to me at all.  Show me a real man -- a railroad engineer, a nurse, a chef, an archaeologist, a mechanic, a hairdresser, a guitar repairperson, a tailor

Comments

[pantryslut]

I am spending way too much time trying to figure out what could possibly be inherently sexy about a former Marine.

[redbird]

There is something profoundly annoying about the assumption that everyone--or even all women who are attracted to men--find the same things attractive. (If it was true , a lot more people would wear their hair long, to match my tastes.) I know I don't exist in their world, but I don't have to like it.

And, like Pantryslut, I wonder what it is about former Marines. some sort of machismo With reduced risk that he'll be shipped around the world and come back injured If at all?

[heleninwales]

I still can't quite get my head round the American view of the military because it's so different to the British one. I possibly don't frequent the right web sites, but I've never heard the equivalent to "Is there anything sexier than a former Marine with a gorgeous body?" This would presumably be something like, "...nothing sexier than an ex-member of the SAS," but I've never heard anyone saying that and in fact if they're regarded as anything, it's macho and scary, not sexy