{"id":724,"date":"2006-01-28T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/01\/28\/worlds-sexiest-man\/"},"modified":"2006-01-28T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T14:30:09","slug":"worlds-sexiest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/28\/worlds-sexiest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Sexiest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7923'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bozzo.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"241\" align=\"left\">TORONTO (Reuters) &#8211; When it comes to romance, women prefer someone<br \/>\n        who tickles their funny bone while men opt for those who catch their<br \/>\n        eye, according to an international survey released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>      The survey, conducted in 16 countries by Canadian romance publisher Harlequin<br \/>\n      Enterprises, asked men and women on six continents about traits they liked<br \/>\n      or disliked and how they went about trying to meet Mr. or Ms. Right. <\/p>\n<p>When<br \/>\n        it came to that first meeting, a majority of men polled said beauty was<br \/>\n        more important than brains, while women put a sense of humor<br \/>\n          at the top of their list.<\/p>\n<p>The poll revealed differences between countries in the way people tried<br \/>\n        to impress the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>        Australians and British men frequently admitted drinking too much, while<br \/>\n        about half of German and Italian men said they had lied about their finances.<br \/>\n      Spaniards were the most likely to use sex to catch someone&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<p><em>After six or seven boilermakers our glass eye (we lost the original during<br \/>\n    a mad orgy on our yacht) tends to pop out unexpectedly, so it&#8217;s nice to have<br \/>\n    someone catch our eye before it hits the floor&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20060127\/2006-01-27T144214Z_01_N26402553_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ROMANCE-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (Reuters) &#8211; When it comes to romance, women prefer someone who tickles their funny bone while men opt for those who catch their eye, according to an international survey released on Wednesday. The survey, conducted in 16 countries by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/28\/worlds-sexiest-man\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}