Inspired by mlpl2015's post. He wanted to know how many men find women's degree sexually arousing. The point was made numerous times that "generally attractive in a mate" isn't necessarily the same as "sexually arousing". Just to lay some groundwork here, I'm defining "attractive" as used in this setting as short for "overall attractive mate", meaning anything and everything that makes you motivated to take and keep a person as a LTR mate. I realize that the word attractive can be used for a lot of things, so please understand that I'm using it in a very particular way just for the sake of this thread. "Sexually arousing" is rather self explaining, it is anything and everything that motivates you to have sexual interactions with a person. For example, a man might find a woman's ability to cook as attractive, but not sexually arousing. He might find her large breasts to be sexually arousing though. There might be odd cases, but generally I think it is safe to say that that "sexually arousing" is a subset of "attractive". That is, everyone wants a mate that is sexually arousing in an LTR.

So now that we should all be the same page (hopefully), I want to ask all pills and both sexes, what are some of the top things that are sexually arousing to you? What are the top things that you find attractive in a mate? How much overlap is there between these two things (that is, how many of the traits you find generally attractive are sexually arousing)? Couple of things in particular brought up in the last thread were women's educational attainment and background, and a man's earning abilities. A lot of people were saying that neither of these things are sexually arousing, but still attractive in a mate.