The Sex Factor and how to get it

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The Evening Standard has been running a daft series this week on what straight women and men want from the opposite sex. It's quite entertaining in a sub-Cosmo kind of way. Most disheartening thing I have learned so far is that boyish good looks are number 7 in the list of turn offs for women (because 'women want to be the pretty one in the relationship'). However, on the up side 'if you can look a woman in the eyes for 20 seconds, you will have seduced her'. Cor! That sounds a piece of piss.

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you blink in those 20 seconds?

― Will, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Excellent, I'm fantastic at staring at girls......

― chris, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How wide do your eyes have to be? Is this not low-level hypnotism?

― Will, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Your eyes should be wide, but not puppy dog, or else you may fall foul of the boyish good looks rule.

Low-level hypnotism? Perhaps. Did you ever see that Louis Theroux programme where that guy hynoptised (I think he had another word for it - sexotise or something) women into going out with him?

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't that great, Nick? I reckon it was his charm and dashing good looks that really got them. And his sincerity.

Seriously though, is there anything you can do other than be yourself and hope that the object of your affections will like that person? If there is, then fuck it, we'll all get it wrong more often than we'll get it right.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've remembered (well, wasted time online) now - it's called blissnosis and you can read all about the secrets of Ross Jeffries' SPEED SEDUCTION here

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm, boyish good looks have always worked for me... then again I'm not trying to pick up women.

― Sean, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, perhaps I should play to my strengths and go the gay way.

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

20 seconds. Cool! Only need to add another 19.99999 seconds and I'll be married by 2009.

― james, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Slobs - laziness and untidiness don't impress"

DAMN!

― james, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only if any of you had read 'Geek Gods', that feature in the December issue of Elle...(the one with Gwyneth Paltrow at the front page declaring she also has cellulite ;-))

― Laetitia, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just pray you never actually like anyone and then you'll never need to worry about the above.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like boyish good looks and sideburns, what are they on about? (If I was the pretty one in the relationship, it'd be a pretty sad one.)

― Maria, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr Dastoor, could you use yr mad google skillz to tell us Dr Ross's "trance words" and "weasel phrases"? My money's on the word "custard".

― AP, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What if you have a wonky eye like me (calm down Maryann). I can't stare a woman straight in the eye (though I can stare two women in an eye at the same time).

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ross Jeremy is all well and good, but all you really need to know about what women want is in the secrets of fascinating womanhood (written by a man)

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

AP, I could. But it would cause ILE havoc. I seem to remember Dr Ross suggesting dropping words like 'section' into conversation on the grounds that they subliminally reminded women of sex.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It makes me think Caesarian section i.e. undesirable result of sex. You wouldn't casually drop syphilis into the conversation now would you? Also how do you drop the word into conversation casually? 'What section of London do you live in then gorgeous?' 'Do you come to this section of the bar often?'

― Emma, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't keep to the 20 second rule 'cos I'd be constantly checking my watch to see whether the 20 seconds had passed yet.

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just attach a watch to her head.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you are missing the poijnt, you know when the 20 seconds are up by the woman's reaction- eg swooning into your arms or if she is less inhibited and does not wear underwear, byt the way she slides down the bar stool

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I googled his weasel phrases, they seem wishy-washy.

― AP, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Section? Why? It must be easy to pull with shopping assistants in department stores, then.Why don't you lot try during your Christmas shopping and report?

― Laetitia, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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