"Heartthrobs" (Past & Present) That Leave You Limp

Johnny off the Deep End, doll.

R1, what good's a DL post without a little "Oh Dear"?

A few years ago I listened to my 2 teenaged nieces and their friends all swoon for almost an hour straight over a rapper named A$AP Rocky. When I finally looked to see what the fuss was about, I mistook him for Celie from "The Color Purple". I'm out of touch and just don't get it. I'm not sure I want to.

Johnny Depp

Brad Pitt

Jason Priestley

Justin Timberlake

If we expand the term "heartthrob" to include "sex symbols," then I'll add George Clooney and Denzel Washington.

All the ones R4 mentioned.

Well guys get older. Y'all wantin some fresh chicken.

Pat Boone

John Travolta

Donny Osmond

Luke Bryan

R4, IMO Brad Pitt, Jason Priestley, George Clooney and Denzel Washington were all smoking hot in their youth.

The problem with George Clooney & Denzel Washington is that they continued pushing the "Sexiest Man Alive" nonsense after they were long in the tooth and had long since lost their sex appeal. George lost his swarthy Italian good looks after the first few seasons of ER. And I haven't seen any sex appeal from Denzel since his turn in "Training Day" 20 years ago.

Tony Curtis was never appealing to me.

R8, I agree that they were objectively handsome in their prime. They just never did anything for me for some reason.

I should also include Will Smith on the list.

Tom Cruise

Mel Gibson

Fabio

Ryan Reynolds

Jesse Metcalfe

Bradley Cooper. I don't get it.

Elvis

Barry Manilow. What the fuck was that all about?

Fabio

Idris Elba. Just not hot to me at all. Not unattractive by any means, but he leaves my bussy as dry as the Arizona Desert. And I usually LOVE the dark meat.

[quote] Barry Manilow. What the fuck was that all about?

He was a heartthrob?

R17, I was under the impression that Barry Manilow was considered a "heartthrob" with a huge following of teen-aged girls during the years he was scoring his hits. But I wasn't around in the mid 70s to early 80s. Maybe an eldergay who was can put this into perspective for me?

GUY MADISON

RORY CALHOUN

TAB HUNTER

GARDNER McKAY

JEFFREY HUNTER

CLINT WALKER

ROBERT FULLER

ROD TAYLOR

I'm old.

R19, if you don't want Guy Madison (pictured), Rory Calhoun, Jeffery Hunter & Tab Hunter in their primes, I'll take them!

The only one of Henry Wilson's boy-toys who's appeal escapes me is Rock Hudson, his most successful.

I totally agree with you, r20, I never got Rock's appeal either. I can only think that his blandness was of a particular appeal in the bland 1950s.

Jason Mamoa

Hunter Biden

Leif Garrett. Never understood. Oh, and Robbie Benson and Shaun Cassidy as well. I was their age when they broke, my raging hormone self never got the attraction.

Now on the other hand, Jan Michael Vincent and Vincent Van Patten!

Walter Brennan

Heartthrobs are usually handsome but bland and non-threatening. So definitely most of them don’t do anything. Clooney, Cruise, Beatty, Redford, Pitt, DiCaprio. Someone like Mickey Rourke was too unwholesome to be more than a cult heartthrob, but he was definitely sexy in his prime.

David Hasselhoff

Methinks R19 is so old, he didn't understand this is a thread about hunks who you DIDN'T or DON'T think are hot.

Troy Donahue OWNS THIS THREAD.

It’s like Channing Tatum was designed in a lab specifically to turn me off, starting with the ridiculous name.

David Cassidy David Hasselhoff Brad Pitt

Hugh Jackman

Hugh Grant

Hugh Hefner

Baby Hughie

I know a Gay oriented entertainment group years ago chose Barry Manilow as the penultament performer for the pre-teen set & lauded him for his squeaky clean image.

[quote]the penultament performer

Oh, DEAR! x2

Drake

Timtim Chalamet

DeCaprio (skinny or fat)

RPATTZ

Ryan Gosling

Eddie Fisher

Clooney

Pitt

John Stamos

Rob Lowe

Hunter Biden

Another vote for Shaun Cassidy. He always looked like he was "special" to me.

Another vote for Rob Lowe. I don't get it.

A "not even with your dick" list of dead and gone men once promoted as handsome or heartthrobs or having some sex appeal. All limp dick inducing:

Van Johnson

William Holden

Joseph Cotton

Frank Sinatra

Glenn Ford

Leslie Howard

Fred Astaire

Bing Crosby

John Wayne

Robert Montgomery

r39, I agree with most of your list except William Holden; when he was young -- before alcoholism took its toll -- he was gorgeous.

R22 my Zillennial sister would chew off her hand for a shot with Jason Momoa. I’m just like ????? He looks like he sells extreme sports goods and teaches surfing on a beach somewhere. Sculpted masc body and flowing glossy hair, obviously, but that’s not what hotness is. To me he has no interesting spark to pull it all together, no essence of metaphysical sexiness. He’s just a big hunk of nothing with some tattoos.

Now his father-in-law Lenny, that’s a different story.

R31 Hugh Grant would be great fun to get trollied and have a fumble with in a dark taxi. Sober frolics in the daytime, however, not ideal.

Luke Perry

Zac Efron. Why?

Tab Hunter (at any age), Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare era), Monty Clift (before the car wreck). More recently that goof Ryan Reynolds, Jamie Dornan, for BDF Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and my husband who always says, "Look me in the eyes while I fuck you."

Your husband leaves you limp, r45?

I'm going to assume R45 didn't understand the assignment because he's also saying Monty Clift leaves him limp only BEFORE the car wreck that turned him into a pain-addled drunk.

R19 You may have great taste, but your reading comprehension skills are lacking

Well R9, Laurence Olivier felt very different about Tony Curtis, the only Roman slave with a Bronx accent, then you!

Bruce.

Jenner.

R50 Shut your mouth! You have very obviously NEVER watched “Can’t Stop the Music” and seen him in skimpy bulging cutoff jean shorts, a crop top and a very generous treasure trail!

r51 Quite the flabby waist for a professional athlete.

R52 Darling, that’s what real men looked like in the late 70s and early 80s, well at least real men who later in the twilight of their lives would go on to do anything to become real women.

Harry Styles

r53 Thank god I was a toddler then! The crop top slays though.