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Guys: How much value do you place on your S/O's appearance?
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How much value do you place on appearance?
She absolutely must be hot, or no dice
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 34%  [ 8 ]
It's fairly important, but other things matter more (specify)
34%
 34%  [ 8 ]
Good character & personality are most important
30%
 30%  [ 7 ]
If she's got the money, I've got the time
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:13 pm    Post subject: Guys: How much value do you place on your S/O's appearance? Reply with quote

A lot of guys on this board seem to really be into their (Korean, Filipina, etc.) girlfriend's appearance. It seems like a lot of value is placed on appearance, so I really wonder about a few things. First, if you see a future with her, how will you feel once she gains weight when she is pregnant, or can't lose the post-pregnancy weight? Or gets varicose veins? Stretch marks? Sagging b r e a s t s?

How will you feel towards her when she is middle-aged, a bit soft, and possibly has an ajumma perm?

Do you guys know how much it costs to color your hair, get a manicure/pedicure, get facials, buy those pretty clothes, buy that expensive dept. store make-up, join a health club, etc., etc? You won't give her a hard time about all the money she spends to keep-up her appearance? What if her priorities shift, and she wants to save all that money for your family's future, and no longer wears make-up, gets her nails done, gets her hair done, quits the gym, etc?
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inspector gadget



Joined: 11 Apr 2003
Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

She must be attractive, that doesn't mean that she has to make guys drool. I have had plenty of hot girlfriends in the past including my ex wife from Holland.

I think most of the real hotties lack other decent qualities that I put importance on.

Remember Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I have seen some pics posted on this site that guys say are HOT but others may disagree.

They must be beautiful to me, they also must have qualities such as intellegence, independance, a sense of adventure, among others.

Oh ya, they must have a nice as$, eyes and legs, those are the physical qualities I look for in a woman.
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well as long as she has all her teeth, and failing that requirement at least wears a pair of dentures I am happy. Other than that I look like a hobo most of the time so I don't get to worried about how the S/O looks. On special occasions it is nice to dress up, but that is a mutual thing as I would of course be nice enough to take a shower and put on clean underwear. As I still stuck in my Miami Vice mindset shaving and wearing socks is clearly optional.
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Axl Rose



Joined: 16 Feb 2006

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WHat you gotta realize is that 'hot' to me is just that - hot TO ME! I find stuff a turn-on that other guys don't. when a guy says "a lover/partner MUST be attractive", stupid god damn women ASSUME we mean like Pamela Anderson or super model stuff ! Rolling Eyes

of course i must find a lady attractive to look at. who on earth is not of this persuasion? people who place personality above looks and money are LIARS. They're lying to tHEMSELVES!

so you're gonna marry an ugly guy who drives a truck but is a laugh-a-minute and great conversation? get that bull outta my face!
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Satori



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Guys: How much value do you place on your S/O's appearan Reply with quote

periwinkle wrote:
A lot of guys on this board seem to really be into their (Korean, Filipina, etc.) girlfriend's appearance. It seems like a lot of value is placed on appearance, so I really wonder about a few things. First, if you see a future with her, how will you feel once she gains weight when she is pregnant, or can't lose the post-pregnancy weight? Or gets varicose veins? Stretch marks? Sagging b r e a s t s?

First of all, anyone who goes into something long term with someone they are not wickedly attracted to is a fool. Sagging breasts? That's why I always say more than a mouthful's a waste! Pettite and pert does it for me. Stretch marks and veins, sweet az. Weight, if a healthy diet and honest regular workouts dont pull her back to pre preggers condition, then fair play. No slacking though!
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How will you feel towards her when she is middle-aged, a bit soft, and possibly has an ajumma perm?

Would heavily discourage an ajuma perm at any age, and I'd like to think any girl I chose would never want one.
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Do you guys know how much it costs to color your hair, get a manicure/pedicure, get facials, buy those pretty clothes, buy that expensive dept. store make-up, join a health club, etc., etc? You won't give her a hard time about all the money she spends to keep-up her appearance? What if her priorities shift, and she wants to save all that money for your family's future, and no longer wears make-up, gets her nails done, gets her hair done, quits the gym, etc?

The smoke and mirrors I can live with or without. If she was to get serious about saving and the pampering had to be reigned in I would DELIGHTED! Im more about the things that can't be faked or painted over, firm pettite body, perky cute *beep*, round butt, long legs, sexy eyes. She should be hot to me without any make up for a start!

It's also as much about chemestry as looks. A healthy couple should be lifting the roof off the sucker pretty much nightly till they're in thier seventies... Razz
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Axl Rose wrote:


so you're gonna marry an ugly guy who drives a truck but is a laugh-a-minute and great conversation? get that bull outta my face!


Yeah, I would, actually. If I weren't married, I would totally stalk Philip Seymour Hoffman. Not hot, but just so fucking cool.
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billybrobby



Joined: 09 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

periwinkle wrote:
Axl Rose wrote:


so you're gonna marry an ugly guy who drives a truck but is a laugh-a-minute and great conversation? get that bull outta my face!


Yeah, I would, actually. If I weren't married, I would totally stalk Philip Seymour Hoffman. Not hot, but just so *beep* cool.


i say it doesn't really matter what people say they want. what matters is who they end up with. all this pie-in-the-sky talk about firm butts. we'll see.

this all goes back to my general theory that people don't know what the hell they want. they think they want this and that and they chase after it. me too.
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

billybrobby wrote:


this all goes back to my general theory that people don't know what the hell they want. they think they want this and that and they chase after it. me too.


Are you saying that you too chase after it, or that everyone is chasing after you Smile
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Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like beautiful women
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Yo!Chingo



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mashimaro EVERYONE likes beautiful women!!! Even Women! Most of us can appreciate an attractive person period. The question is....when her/his butt is hangin' to da floor are you still gonna like them? Far too many people get involved in relationships based upon LUST not LOVE. When the boobs are a hangin' and the blond is now gray we'll see what men are really in love with.
BTW...I'm blond with a nice figure, size C upstairs ,and I'd say a decent face. Men tell me I'm "beautiful" all the time. Doesn't mean crap! It's what's inside that counts!!![/quote]
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:58 am    Post subject: Re: Guys: How much value do you place on your S/O's appearan Reply with quote

periwinkle wrote:
Stretch marks?

Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers? Let's see, there was Groucho the gabby one, Harpo the silent one (also sold used guitars in the Far East), Chico was the one with the hat. And ol' Stretch, yeah. He was known as "the dead Marx Brother", I think. Wasn't in many of their films.

So, how much value to _I_ place in it? Not as much as she does. Literally. A little bag she's carrying in, and I mean really little.

"What's that?"
"Cosmetics. Guess what they cost! "
"Oh (holding the bag to my forehead like I'm clairvoyant), I guessing 150,000 won?" (thinking that's high)
"Shocked More."
"250,000 won?"
"Over 400,000 won Sad"
"WHAT!!??? (looking inside the bag) For these ... five, six little items?? By God, we need to get you a crack-cocaine habit, fast!! It'll be cheaper!!!"

And then comes the itemisation, brand-name this, imported-brand that, and I'm just shaking my head. A special brand & shade of lipstick is 70,000 won well spent to her, but just a red or pink crayon to me. But then I've got my excesses as well, and I've learnt the painful lesson never to ask a Korean girl to go grab just any fourth bottle of wine for my drunk pals without specifying NOT the 135,000 won/bottle stuff, but rather the 30,000 won/bot. we got for 15,000 won ea. at Lotte's 2-cases-for-1 sale.

And how come there are so many boy/girl, relationship, romance, love, sex, body parts, "I hate fat western chicks/western chicks are still gorgeous", marriage, etc. threads & polls popping up these days? So many threads, and they grow so big. I like women too much, but this is all getting a bit ... monotonous. Confused


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xingyiman



Joined: 12 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
A lot of guys on this board seem to really be into their (Korean, Filipina, etc.) girlfriend's appearance. It seems like a lot of value is placed on appearance, so I really wonder about a few things. First, if you see a future with her, how will you feel once she gains weight when she is pregnant, or can't lose the post-pregnancy weight? Or gets varicose veins? Stretch marks? Sagging b r e a s t s?

How will you feel towards her when she is middle-aged, a bit soft, and possibly has an ajumma perm?

Do you guys know how much it costs to color your hair, get a manicure/pedicure, get facials, buy those pretty clothes, buy that expensive dept. store make-up, join a health club, etc., etc? You won't give her a hard time about all the money she spends to keep-up her appearance? What if her priorities shift, and she wants to save all that money for your family's future, and no longer wears make-up, gets her nails done, gets her hair done, quits the gym, etc?


First off if the gal doesn't have the looks then I'm not biting. Great personality...fine lets be friends. I always make it a point to check out the girls mother. If her mother looks good then generally in my experience the girl will too. But "not being able to take the post pregnancy weight off is a B.S. excuse for just not wanting to get off your lazy arse and keep yourself up. Sure my ex gained weight after she had our baby. But she did her post pregnancy exercises so that her stomach wouldn't remain in a sagging mass and watched what she ate and suprisingly ended up slimmer than she was before pregnancey. Yeah people will get old and we'll get old with them...it's a fact of life. What I am saying is that there is a difference being an aging wife or husband and being an aging single person. I always let lots of things slide with my ex wife. She would gain weight and then take it off, but she was genetically predisposed to being slim. If you are a single person however and vying for my attention I will not extend that same coutesy to you. To get my attentions you need to be doing it better than than the status quo because Korea and Asia in general are chock full of millions of females doing just that.

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Men tell me I'm "beautiful" all the time. Doesn't mean crap! It's what's inside that counts!!!


I'll borrow a line from Leonardo Dicaps Charcater of Howard Hughes in the movie "The Aviator" when he was sitting around the Dinner table with Katherine Hephburn's family....You dont' care about it because you've always had it..... (speaking of their money) You are used to guys drooling over you and you take it for granted. It's a lot easier for you to tell the rest of the female world that "...oh, it's whats inside that counts..." Yeah tell that to a homely girl who's got a good personality that couldn't get a guy to look in her direction if she was holding a stick of dynamite.
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SPINOZA



Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have seen cases where a guy who's nothing special to look at - perhaps even rather ugly - get beautiful girlfriends because of personality or sense of humour or what ever. This in my opinion happens more with women than with guys. but generally people - both sexes - are sexually attracted to people they find sexually attractive to look at. That's tautologous because it's so obvious. I've fancied birds who are nothing remotely special to look at; they just had a certain something, physically, that turned me on.

So yeah - looks are important. But 'objectively beautiful' if there is such a thing? It's helpful but it's not essential. Very Happy

Sex is a physical need for guys. We need to be physically turned on to get it up and reproduce. Women aren't burdened with this. I say 'burden' because it is a burden. I'd be having sex constantly were it not for my need to be turned on by a lady who I personally deem physically attractive. I'd love to sh@g every woman in the whole world, but I can't, because many women don't give SPIN a hard-on. Please no silly comments about "well it's hardly a foregone conclusion that every woman in the world would want to sleep with YOU, SPIN" because that (sadly) I'm well aware of already.

Women don't need to be turned-on to have sex. Men do. Usually it's physical attractiveness (which is subjective) that is responsible for turned-on. A solidly convincing thesis - who can refute me?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks are important but they are also relative to your personal preferences.

As someone on here has said: whats hot to him is not necessarily hot to another.

Also, long term relationships need to be based on more than looks as that type of attraction fades or changes. You need the full package here: looks that appeal to you (and your looks must appeal to her as well!), intelligence and character.

As for my wife, we had our first child last year and she looks just as beautiful to me now as before. She had a great pregnancy and delivery and she lost all the weight she had gained (all the gals in her family are like that!) As for her body changing, well its pregnancy and birth! Change is normal. I am not with her because she is thin. I am with her because we connect on many levels.
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crazylemongirl



Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SPINOZA wrote:

Women don't need to be turned-on to have sex. Men do.

Fourtantly if we make the right sounds, some weird facial expressions, we can get away with faking.
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