Can someone be attractive, but not sexy? Also, can someone be unattractive, but still be sexy?

I say yes. And I have examples.

Julia Roberts: She's cute. There's no denying that, but I just don't feel she's sexy. I now other people do, but personally...

Wendy liebman: Comedian. Not much a looker really, but I feel she's VERY sexy. Her sense of humor among other things.

Of course. Sexy and attractive are not the same thing. Attractiveness is more about how you look physically. Sexiness is the way you carry yourself, etc. Well, that's what I think.

Attractiveness is also as much how you look as how you act. Sexiness is a particular way of being attractive that inspires... impure thoughts.

I like Maya Angelou's poem, "Phenomenal Woman," that addresses the point of attractiveness vs. sexiness.

attractive is just below sexy

both...absolutely...and to me the sexier a person is the more attractive they are to me, even if they are not the most stunning creature on the planet. It's the look baby...the charisma....

Case in point, Lyle Lovett.

Yes to both, although they most often go together.

People who feel attracted by a leader of "evil"
to committing a crime in the way he has designed,
could they be called sexually touched persons?
People who feel attracted by others' goodness, as
it was represented by Mother Theresa of Calcutta,
should they be called attracted sexually to the
nobel-prize-winning nun ?

Definitely. I loved this person who was rather large, but beautiful because I was so in love. Then when the person lost weight and became more physically attractive, but had an uglier personality, all the attraction and sexiness was gone. Definitely a turnoff.

Real beauty comes from within. A person can be physically unattractive, but their beauty within can make them attractive. An attractive person can become unattractive if they have no beauty within. Then again, there can be attractive people, who have both beauty within and good looks. The same can go for an unattractive person who may not have beauty within. I think a man who is a good Christian family man, a good husband and father is the sexiest man alive. The physical part of people go with age, but the good heart stays.

Highly rated surveys in which most everyone answers the same way fascinate me.

I think there's a difference between being good-looking, attractive, and sexy. Someone can be good-looking without my finding them attractive. And I can find someone attractive emotionally, mentally, or even physically without finding them sexually attractive, which is what I mean by sexy.

BIG HUGE YES

i'm probably horrid for this...
...but my boyfriend is sexy to me...
...not attractive...
...ugly in fact

Yes. The lesbian on Roseann (forgot her name) is sort of unattractive but I think she's very sexy. There's also a lot of attractive people who just aren't very sexy at all.

ha ha jaff your boyfriend is ugly and sexy?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. On this same thread: What I think is sexy may not be what you think is sexy. So it is my opinion that it depends upon everyones own likes and dislikes.

Anyone familiar with French actress Beatrice Dalle? She not very attractive, but VERY sexy. So, they are 2 different things.
Also, an unattractive woman can have a very sexy voice.

attractive: Gywenth Paltrow / Nicole Kidman
sexy + attractive: Anna Kournikova / Katie Holmes

sex isn't pretty

I consider attractive, sexy, pretty, and beautiful to be distinct qualities. Sandra Bernhard (IMHO assumed from this point on) is sexy, but not pretty or beautiful, I'm undecided on attractive. Winona Ryder is pretty, attractive, and beautiful, but not terribly sexy. Salma Hayek is sexy, attractive, and beautiful but not pretty. I could go on, but I've already gone way beyond the question so I'll shut up now.

It is all in the attitude of the person.

Someone can be attractive but not sexy. For example, my mother is attractive, but I don't find her sexy! On the other hand, I can't think of anyone who is sexy but not attractive.

Being considered sexy or attractive is different for each people. What I find sexy someone else may not. Everyone has their own idea and this is what makes the world go around.

Someone can be attracted but not sexy because they can look good...but not sexually. Or to your sexual liking. Like, I have a friend. And she is very attractive..but very short. And her being short, (like 4'2") makes her not sexy because she stil has the little girl look. Not saying that all short people are not sexy..but just this certain one is. So, I agree with the survey.

yes, krist. he's one of the sexiest men 've ever met... but he's very ugly to me. my roomate says i'm crazy, that he's cute, but i Really think he's ugly. not plain... UGLY.

close your eyes, smell your lover - is that attractiveness or sexiness?

I don't know-- *sniff*-- What is that??

bill: that is drugs.

bill...it's just gas

olfactory arousal is just icky

jaff, oddly enough, a lot of my memories are triggered from smell

maggz: 's not Too horridly odd... *pets* :)

Not odd, mag - that's quite often true for people. The olfactory center of the brain is located right next to a particular memory region (I forget the name), and signals travel between the two quite readily.

I think Drew Carey is extremely sexy. I don't find him in the least attractive physically, yet...I am attracted to his sexiness. The way he laughs inwardly at his own jokes is absolutely scrumptiously adorable.
Humor is sexy. A funny man who enjoys his own joviality is a god.

mandy.. I like Drew too :)

Yes for both. And in the interest of not being slapped around continously for the rest of my foreshortened life, I will not provide examples.

Although both judgements of sexy and attractive are relative to the individual's perception, I can think of examples for each situation in which my views of the same persons attractiveness and sexyness conflict. There are people I find physically attractive but have other qualities (personality, attitude, etc.) that render them less than sexy. The reverse is also true.