How important is someone's voice and accent when it comes to attraction?

[JuicyMelonss]

Could or have you been attracted to someone despite not liking their accent or voice initially?
Have you fallen for someone purely by ears?

A man's voice and accent is a deal breaker to me so I'm curious to see if other women share my view.

@TreePoser can't believe it's 20 years ago!

Voice, grammar, accent, eloquence - all massively important

@SpongeBobJudgeyPants Haha I like the name! Do you think your ex put you off men with nice voices or was it coincidental that your current DH has a normal voice rather than a fancy radio voice?

I don't think it put me off as such. I just check for general fuckwittism these days, or if ever I'm on the hunt for another DH, which is not likely at my age. I'm still a sucker for a lovely voice. FWIW I love Geordie too. One of the few men I'd leave home for is Jimmy Nail. Only joking Mr Sponge not really

I think mentioning accents we don't like is risking offending someone. I'm just waiting for someone to have a pop at my Cumbrian accent... You can make voodoo dolls with just a Username apparently

I once went on a date with a man who put on an Australian accent as he told me about something that happened there. I found him more attractive when he did that

I love accents and voices. I like deep voices and I go all unnecessary with Scottish or Irish accents. I love any US accent.

Men with deep voices could recite the times table and I would be transfixed.

Ha...you'd need to find an older one to do that. It was beaten into us by the Christian Brothers but the young lads all need their calculators!

@JuicyMelonss yes, his elocution lessons were about 25 years ago. He worked in a call centre in London and was the only Northerner, he said the customers often struggled to understand him so he changed how he spoke to fit in better, and now it's second nature. I love his occasional Northernisms.

@CthulhuInDisguise I'm a northerner living in the midlands. When I went to uni here, they struggled sometimes to understand me. And I'm not particularly northern in accent. So I was forced to adapt, no elecution involved! I do love a good northernism to keep DH on his toes. "Ne'er cast a clout til May's out" is one I have been known to trot out, in the safety of my own home ;)

@SpongeBobJudgeyPants
We say "Don't cast a clout till May be out" in Ireland too.

Its a big part of attraction to me. I find scouse accents really offputting/jarring and bearing in mind that you'd be listening to it all day if you ended up together it is a dealbreaker. Irish accents on the other hand, instantly make me fall in love

Off topic really but I love your username, see the similarities?!

I watched "A Place In The Sun" during the week and there were a couple from Wales on it. The man had the most lovely lilting Welsh accent and a deep voice. A really perfect voice for radio. He could read the shipping forecast or something else of no interest to me and I'd be happy to listen. 😀

My H has a lovely voice, good enough to do voiceovers. It's his best feature by some way

Very important. A high voice, a very strong regional accent (esp if it was accompanied by poor grammar eg “I done”, “yous”), or a marbles in the mouth ‘posh’ voice would have been an instant turn off.

@LadyEloise1 interesting! Perhaps its just my family, dunno!

No, the opposite, kind of. If I'm attracted to someone it makes me start liking the accent they have. I love accents generally though. So if I was going to find a way of speaking less attractive it would be a very soft, barely there, very 'well spoken' accent.

Oh definitely, I was talking to a guy I met online. He phoned me last week and I got the instant ick. I didn't say anything obviously, carried on talking but by Monday things went quiet. We were meant to meet this weekend but he pretty much ghosted me and in all honesty I really didn't care. If he had a sexy voice I would have been more upset.