Face or body, what is more important?

My first poll in my 18 months on DU...

For DUers, if you had a choice in a significant other of him or her having a beautiful/handsome face and an average body or a great body and an average face, which would you take?

This is purely phsyical and assumes the person already meets your intellectual & personality requirements.

But, although genetic factors definitely play a significant role, the body can in large part be shaped by our behavior. The face, on the other hand, is completely luck-of-the-draw. This is, of course, assuming no major plastic surgery. ;)

I find a truly beautiful face to be much rarer these days than a truly beautiful body. And I always gotta go for the more precious commodity.

beautiful faces are rarer. nowadays, you can buy a good body.

Plus a lot of people don't think the risks that are involved with surgery are worth it, even if they do have the money. Plastic surgery isn't going to build muscles for you and give you more physical strength and endurance either. I don't think great bodies are all that common, and I don't think that plastic surgery gives people great bodies either. It just makes them look better.

I think plastic surgery is more effective in getting someone a great face. You could say that beautiful faces are more common these days because of plastic surgery too. I don't think either statement is true, because I think the majority of people are not getting plastic surgery.

I think that is what makes having a great body better than a great face. People that have great bodies usually worked hard to get their bodies that way and they also work hard to maintain them. I think having a great body says a lot about a person's work ethic and their determination.

Young women are sometimes blessed with naturally good bodies, or what is considered a good body. Granted, it doesn't last forever.

Young guys can naturally have good bodies sometimes, too, but that is more often due to playing sports throughout their youth.

I think the opposite, though. A person that spends a lot of time working on their body may be more concerned about their body than their intellect or their personality. Again, that is may be more concerned...

99.9% of the time.

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

But hey, being in my forties (and blessed to be alive!), I'm less likely to emphasize physical characteristics as an important mark of an individual. ;) Please excuse my appeal for increased self-actualization. <blush>

Umm ... when I was young, I thought "the eyes" were the most beautiful physical aspect of individuals.

I will probably be one of the few females who will say the face is more important. I don't really care about the body specifically, although I do tend to like other women with the "matronly" look. The face though. I love "cat eyes" and I love a nice smile. That holds my attention way more than the "perfect 10" body everyone seems to rave about so much. My perfect 10 idea of the body is a bit different. The face is still more important to me.

a great body is good, but if you have butter face, it's no good. A nice blend of both, but I lean more toward face

just because it contains the eyes. I'm not talking about the type of face that our culture tells us is 'great', either. I like an interesting and kind face. I'm also pretty good at telling whether a guy is liberal, conservative or middle-of-the-road. It shows on the face. Yeah, I'm a bigot--liberal men turn me on, and really conservative men repulse me.

Being 41, I know what happened to all those guys in high school 20-something years later whom everyone thought were so good looking. If the person meets my intellectual (ha!) and personality requirements, then he's the most gorgeous guy in the world. Looks fade. Then again, I'm 41, so perhaps if I were 20 years younger, I'd answer differently.

...than a TRULY exceptional body. These have always been extremely rare, even in eras that weren't as super-sized, sedentary, and junk food obsessed as ours.

Sorry, but surgery can't get you that kind of body--boob jobs are easy to spot just by looking, and especially easy to feel when touching. Plus, you can exercise all you want, but if you don't have the genetics you'll never look (or feel!) like this:



Cute--and even beautiful--faces are much more common. Elizabeth Taylor was supposed to be the "most beautiful woman in the world" because of her face. Well, taking both in their primes, Pam Grier blows Elizabeth Taylor away as an erotic presence. No contest.

My opinion, anyway, and I only posted it because I only see one type of perspective here and I thought I'd add a little diversity. ;-)

I am more interested in someones character than anything else. A relationship based on something so false and fleeting as physical looks is doomed to failure, and not really worth pursuing.

the person already meets your intellectual & personality requirements.

What I said above was that this assumes that the person already meets your intellectual & personality requirements.

But what it does not assume is that the person that meets your character requirements may posses neither a stunning body or face. Never really cared what a woman looked like personally, except for hygiene, good hygiene is a must.

I'd rather have someone with a great body and an average face, than someone with a great face and average body. Someone with a great body can do so many more things physically (not talking about sex stuff, but I guess that is true too). A great body is more useful than a great face. There's nothing wrong with an average face either. I think most people have good looking faces, and I assume most people must have average facial features.

A face that radiates intelligence, happiness.

Which my b/f has in abundance. And his beautiful face reflects that.

He also has a nice body, so I really am blessed.

..and a big set of knockers and I'll pretty much forgive all other imperfections :evilgrin:

of course, looking back, it's like "Wow, was I blinded to everything else because of that?"

I meant physical atributes. The hottest looking woman I ever dated was a stone cold fox from top to bottom but she was batshit insane.

Was her name Amy? just kidding. ;-)

Well, actually, my ex-wife was pretty, was wild in bed & had an oversized chest for her body (her dad used to joke that they adopted her from Dolly Parton)... but, I don't think I'd call her a stone cold fox. I've certainly dated other women that were prettier facially and had better overall bodies, outside the chest.

no, not Amy. (whew!)

the one I wound up marrying is just fantastic. Kinda big all over including the chest, but all in proportion and suoer hot. Here's a pic of her fine self.

No question.

I just wish my knees would stop making that awful sound when I stand up.

:shrug:

...and you do so over a long period of time, you will note, as I have, that the faces of the vast majority of those planning to wed are similar in many respects to each other.

Then if you will turn to the silver, golden and platinum anniversary announcement pix, you should note that those who stay married long periods have faces similar to each other, even as they age.

There's something in those observations for us all. Check it out.

Could it be that, while we are all told the body is the sexy thing, the face is what really matters physically to long relationships? Hmmm...

In terms of men and my simply visceral, raw reaction , his face needs to have a baseline of attractiveness, but body structure, stature, and the like are something else all together. If a man has a body type that turns me on, usually somewhat tall, either lean or more built (or somewhere in between), it does something to me that is not fit for me to print on this forum.

that really narrows it down!!!

I'm not attracted to really fat dudes. There, I said it. I'm sorry. I'm not talking "perfection" (whatever the Hell that is, just not obese). Preferably somewhat taller than me and not too skinny, but various levels of muscle-hood is more than acceptable.

For the record, you're very attractive and if you were available... well, you've got it goin' on, dude. :)

I don't think I'm ugly... but, I certainly don't have a good body, and ever since I met my ex-wife, it's been all downhill: I've lost muscle in my chest & arms and added about 2 inches to my waistline. With my ex, it was that she was so high maintenance that I was too worn out to exercise... in between marriages, I was so busy chasing women that I didn't have time to work out... and, now that I'm married again and have a child, I'm normally way too tired.

and since they are on the face, I picked that.

:)

the way a guy moves or talks or maybe his eyes or his personality ... it's the whole dealio together that makes him attractive to me.