I don't think I can put an absolute percentage on it. I am a man (no surprise there, then) and there are occasions where I find anything on two legs attractive. There is a difference, though, between a passing "Mmmm..." and having any thoughts of real attraction. I find my wife's friends attractive, but not in any kind of sexual or relationship way - just an acknowledgement that they are pretty or beautiful physically and/or mentally. There are people at my work who stand out as being beautiful, and I suppose that if I wasn't already head over heels in love I might be encouraged to speak with them as more than friends, but there (as Shakespeare would say) is the rub. My wife and I can walk down the road and window shop the bums (it always seems to be backsides) of people and laugh and joke about it. If you had seen the size of some of the heifers where we live you would understand why we laugh. We are secure in the knowledge that looking at some beautiful and some not-so-beautiful people is NOT doing anything wrong, but is being honest about our feelings. So, to try and answer your question (I get off the track so easily) I reckon about 15% of the people I see on an average day, omitting my wife, are attractive.

15%

I think "sexually attractive" is a state of mind. When I'm single -- definitely -- I encounter attractive people every day, sometimes more than once a day. But in my current relationship -- I find that I'm only distracted by attraction a couple of times a year. For some reason, my eyes are much less hungry these days.

about 50-60% but there is a big difference between 'that person's hot' as they pass you and actually really liking someone, which is a much smaller percentage.

Less than 10%. Except in the summer it shoots up to about 45%.

About 3-4%. Often I find them attractive because they find me attractive.

Since I got married and had children, probably like .01 percent. When I was in High school, it was probably more like 30%. Funny how hormones work huh?

Approximately 0.01% to 0.03%. I just don't look at people that way. REASON FOR EDIT (15 Oct 06) ------------------------------------ I realized that I encounter HUNDREDS of people every day.

about 5 to 8 % i cant be real attracted to a person untill i know them a little. i guess there is more to attractiveness than physical alone, well at least to me. ( too manny horror storries with beauty queens i guess) there has to be something up-stairs aside from looks. sure there is a lot of "hotties" out there but attraction is more than looks alone ( call me crazy)

2%, if that?

I would say 5%.

On a daily basis I'd say- less than 1%, overall I'd say-10%. :)

Up here in the north, about 1%-5%. In a college town in Florida, like 30%. I went to an attractive school.