A lot of women think that what men really want are dumb women who are good looking.

I know some men who have issues with this. Just like some women have a thing for ‘bad boys’, some men admit that they have a thing for ‘bimbos’. But saying that all men like this is a little extreme.
 

What would be the physical qualities of your ideal girl or guy? Love Matters has been finding out how different people feel about the perfect partner’s looks.

This week Pratyush Singh: “I’ll see a woman with really short hair and I’ll find her attractive and the very next moment I’ll like someone with long hair!”

What would be the physical qualities of your ideal girl or guy? Love Matters has been finding out how different people feel about the perfect partner’s looks.

This week Kartik: “I think I get used to how people look after knowing them for a while, and it ceases to matter.”

What would be the physical qualities of your ideal girl or guy? Love Matters has been finding out how different people feel about the perfect partner’s looks.

This week Paromita Dhar: “What matters most is the tension between the two bodies and the desire for the other person.”

A man’s smell can play a crucial role in whether or not a woman finds him attractive, according to Dutch sex writer Marianne Ras.

All the men she's ever wanted to have sex with smelled good to her, she says. “Smell can be very sexually arousing. If I look at myself, then unconsciously I have been attracted to men who smell good to me.”

What would be the physical qualities of your ideal girl or guy? Love Matters has been finding out how different people feel about the perfect partner’s looks.

This week Ashwini Kumar Chakre: “Attractiveness is a complicated thing. I mean some girl could have all these physical qualities and not be attractive at all.”

People who say looks don’t matter are hypocrites, says 23-year-old Kashyap. He's a Bangalore design student, dating again after a one-year relationship ended.

Isn’t it what’s on the inside that counts? “If you aren’t attracted to someone, you wouldn’t stick around long enough to find out what’s inside them.” What about skin colour, for example? “This fair versus dark debate is getting more and more complex.”