Which American accent do you find to be the sexiest?

A proper Southern accent, particularly the regal Charleston SC accent

r1 Which state would you say had the least sexy accent? A northern one I presume like say Vermont?

No, northern accents can be sexy too, it just depends on where and what appeals to you.

I like educated southern accents, like that of the late actress Dixie Carter.

Boston accent. Not sexy.

Beyonce's accent

My accent!

McConaughey Texas accent gets my mussy dripping wet

Ew, I hope you wore Depends, r8

Uptown (Garden District) New Orleans accent is dying out but it is melodious to the ears.

Any patrician Southern accent sounds nice. Sen. Sam Nunn had a good one.

Hard call, most American accents sound so nasal to me.

Southern

Believe it or not I get a boner for the Pittsburgh accent. I can hardly imitate it but I love the sound., Must be the "O's".

The old New Orleans accent is nice, but increasingly rare.

R2 I met a sexy guy once from N. Dakota his harsh accent was a dick wilter. Vermont still has the quaintness of New England

Brooklyn and Staten Island accents make the speaker seem stupid.

I love a Brooklyn accent on a hot guy. But he has to be blonde.

Former Miss. Gov. William Winter has a nice Southern accent.

Teleivison is killing this accent in subsequent generations.

The New York Black and Latino accents sound sexy.

Wisconsin, especially the nymphos.

I like Timothée' Chalamamet's clean, clear manhattan accent. No queens, no brooklyn, no bronx, just an accurate pronunciation of english, unlike the british, who don't pronounce their language anything like it's spelled.

Well R19, that's because a vast chunk of it has French origins (a French word) due to the Normans. English is a mongrel of a European language that readily accepts words from any other language like a sponge (a French word), the Indian word Pyjamas as an example of many others.

Let's hope no one brings of the mythical British accent...

Texan

To us in the Northeast, all Southerners sound like morons.

English is a dirty slut!

By far... Texan... specifically west Texan.

The Sam Elliot-style Southern accent (which is Texas by way of California)

All I know is I got plenty of dick on my first trip to California using my sweet Southern drawl. The guys went nuts for it!

So, the consensus seems to be Southern, especially Texan.

The follow up question is 'What's so sexy about a Southern accent?'

Southern accent makes me think stupid and sexy at the same time

Ebonics is hot

Italians with Brooklyn accents are sexy

It may also have something to do with the fact that Southern men are some of the most sexually aggressive on the planet. Closely followed if not overtaken by Latinos. I had a boyfriend once who was half Puerto Rican and half redneck, and he was one smoking hot number.

The Tony Soprano Jersey accent can be sexy.

Southern drawl on a well-educated man.

The Deliverance accent. “Squeal like a pig.”

Atticus Finch

The northern cities are all awful. New York, Boston, but especially that nasal Chicago whine. Southern accents used to bug me but the genteel ones are perfectly fine.

As someone who has relatives and friends from PGH, that is very odd to me R13.

No fans of the midwestern accent, aka ‘nails on a chalkboard’?

The southern boys make the yankee boys weak.

None of them.

Philly / South Jersey

Slightly OT (sorry OP) as I don’t find it ‘sexy’, but I am fascinated and endeared by the Kentucky hillbilly accent. I think that’s mostly as it reminds me of the Forester/West Midlands accents of my native Britain.

I could listen to Dock Boggs recount tales of miners & moonshine all day, his voice is captivating.

What is Nick Stahl’s accent, exactly? 😍😍😍

I know it’s Texan, but I think it’s some odd borderlands version I’ve never heard. He’s from Harlingen.

Philly

He sounds like someone from New York trying to talk with a Texas accent.

The Research Triangle accent

Philadelphia, especially when they bottom.

Standard RP virginian

Any accent as long as the voice is deep. High-pitched male voices are NOT sexy.

For example, porn star Lance Alexander . No matter how stupid he might be, that voice will get him laid.

^He's not sexy

R50: No argument there—but his voice sure as fuck is! I'd just turn off the lights and let him talk me into cumming.

I like Midwestern accents. Warm and comforting with just a touch of zany.

R43/R45 Nick Stahl speaks with a RGV (Rio Grande Valley) accent; also known the ‘956’, ‘Tex Mex’, or ‘rancho’ dialect. It’s probably how the white people in the tales of Zorro would have spoken.

It’s tough to break down academically how the dialect works, but essentially it’s a rapid and up-spoken form of Spanglish-Plains English - twangy and ‘Ole Western’ as one might expect, but with a musical Mexican cadence and including Spanish & Spanglish words (I.e., ‘parkeando’ for ‘parking’). There’s also some degree of playing fast and loose with pronouciation of diphthongs, particularly the English ‘-sh’ and ‘-ch’, which become interchangeable (i.e., ‘shower’ sometimes becomes ‘chower).

The dialect originates from a specific group of mostly-white Midwestern agricultural labourers & settlers, recruited and moved down to the border in the early 1900s by landowner William Jennings Bryan; many of them probably being of Dutch or German extraction like Stahl’s ancestors. Migrants of this background worked alongside more local workers drawn from across the border in Mexico, and over time their communities combined as did their native tongues. The RGV accent sounds so markedly different to every other region of Texas because of these factors.

In the clip below, you may notice Nick ends a lot of his sentences in upwards-inflected questions, and speaks in a nasal and ‘sing-songy’ manner. He could probably serenade you with Mexican folk ballads, if you asked him nicely.

^^Paul London is another performer/actor who speaks with a Tex-Mex accent, though not specifically RGV.

His drawl and Spanglish tones are more noticeable than Stahl’s, probably because he is ethnically Mexican/Native.

Minnesotan.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

R55 hey, not so fast, now. I always liked how Prince spoke. Didn’t he have a Minny accent?

American accents are really funny. You have Fargo accents, Long Island/northern NJ accents, hillbilly accents, dumb drawling southern accents, sweet-as-pie but stab-you-in-the-back southern accents, Texas accents, valley girl accents, Cajun accents, Chic-hah-go accents.

I am partial to the native accents of Pittsburgh and Baltimore because they are so distinctive, yet not over the top cartoonish.

And actors NEVER get them right. On the show The Wire, the British stars failed miserably. The school principal in season 4 had it; I would bet good money she’s a native.

Southern accents are tricky. I went to school with someone raised in Charleston SC. He sounded Australian.

Knew someone else from Jackson, MS. Oh my, that was a caricature.

I spent part of my childhood in St. Louis, which was a big media market for the Midwest. No joke, we had nearly as many TV stations in the 60s-70s as New York City.

You could hear all sorts of accents by switching around the radio dials. City folk sounded different than the country folk, and that was a distance of only about 20 miles.

Lowland Southern is different from the mountain hillbilly Southern.

Texas has all sorts of accents.

The NYT had an interactive feature a few years back that could locate your region of the country depending on how you pronounced a few key words.

Surprisingly accurate.

California surfer dude. It says, "I'm hot, hip and dumb. You can take sexual advantage of me."

Southern accents just tell the world the person is dumb and a douchebag.

The Southern ones, like the Texan and the Georgian. I quite like that High Church accent James Spader has, it's upper class and sexy.

On men, Boston accent. It's so rough and masculine sounding.

Ooh you are making me wet for Californian dudes! r59 i😘😍🔥

Whatever Texan accent is the lazy and stupid one is sexy on a hot guy.

Alabama has the single worst southern accent.

Michigan can sounds like a weird speech impediment.

But I’m from the Northeast, and God knows we’re a mess.

[quote] American accents are really funny. You have Fargo accents, Long Island/northern NJ accents, hillbilly accents, dumb drawling southern accents, sweet-as-pie but stab-you-in-the-back southern accents, Texas accents, valley girl accents, Cajun accents, Chic-hah-go accents.

Well, remember: there are 325 million of us, and we're spread out geographically over 3,800,000 square miles.

Think how many accents there are in Great Britain, and yet there are far fewer people, and it's only the size of Oregon.

Ghetto ebonics and Washington DC area jive talk, AKA my native tongue

Texan sounded (and looked, and kissed, and took me home to Brooklyn the night we met) so good I married him.

He's a keeper - it's truly an accent that has you at "Hello."

Janice from Friends or Fran Drescher, it’s a tie.

I grew up in Chicago, and lived briefly in Los Angeles for 3 months in 1975 (I was 10). I swore people had a slight twang to their speech, and I learned that it was a "Californian" accent. I actually live in L.A. now, but I don't hear it, I just hear the Valley talk accent.

I briefly dated a guy from New Orleans, my lord that accent is sexy.

This accent really turns me on................. although I'm not sure what to call it.

r66 Sounds dreamily seductive!

Love a NY/NJ guido accent. The women sound like nails on a blackboard, though.

Nasal Western accents are ugly. My accent is the best—central Virginia.

(13) So you like the Pittsburgh accent? How about "lets go dahn tahn to check out the new rest a rahnt." After - will ya ride me up the hill?

In the Pacific Northwest we have no real accent at all. It's just generic without many identifiable features. (I'm told this is why there are so many call centers here, because most English speakers can easily understand us, but I don't know for sure if that's true.) So, almost any accent is noticeable and somewhat exotic. But I must say that Midwestern accents, especially from women, are grating.

I’m partial to Arkansas. It’s very lilting and relaxing.

Aww, r42, that's sweet.

My dad sounds like that. Yes, kentucky hillbilly family although he grew up north of the river.

I apparently sound like that as well.

How’s about that Southie accent. It’s like the American Chavs, like they’d fuck you then they’d fuck you up when they’re done.

Love Tom Petty's accent. Is that weird?

An interesting point has been made about how some accents suit men and sound terrible on women and vice versa. Same with languages.

I have to say older Americans (I was not born in America) tend to speak very well regardless of background and the older women have very clear, confident voices and the men sound in control and measured. Something happened in the 80s and many people under 40 do not speak with the same clarity and confidence and “adult” voices. I listen to a lot of podcasts and have to bail out on some because o just cannot listen to the most. The women say every sentence like it’s a question and they are being interrogated by a kidnapper - Thiis new moviee out? I heard it’s realll good? It’s a thrillerrr? And the guys sound stoned and semi-comatosed - I waaas taalkin too my budddy aaaaaand maaaan I dunnoo. No don’t has ever offered any explanation for this phenomenon but everyone I mention it to has also noticed it. Strange.

I'm Midwestern, and find a rough Boston accent to be very alluring.

Marlee Matlin’s voice is so soothing and easy on the ears.

R80 ditto except I fall for the Philly accent

Any thick Southern drawl is charming.

My least favourite are those northern, semi-Canadian monstrosities and the neutral American beloved of newsreaders.

There was a survey of British Airline passengers and the two American accents they like the best were- The Boston accent ( most intelligent sounding American accent) and the New York City- Brooklyn, Long Island etc- accent( It was the sexiest sounding American accent)

I do like Zach Garcia’s Southern drawl, of course having a deep voice and hearty laugh helps too.

Trae Crow is hot, but not sure how much of his accent is an exaggeration

Trae Crowder

Southern

The worst accent for me is what I assume is a Maine accent.

New Orleans, Richmond, Brooklyn, Miami Latino, and country Black are statistically the hottest fucks.

[quote] Michigan can sounds like a weird speech impediment.

Perhaps that is to do with the speed at which they speak. Grand Rapids natives talk a mile a minute, it’s no wonder their words jumble and slur.

[quote] The Boston accent ( most intelligent sounding American accent)

R84 my sides!

[quote] Any thick Southern drawl is charming.

What’s a “slow draaaaaaaw”, stupid?

Cajun & MILDLY Southern

I'm a New Englander but love Louisiana accents.

New York Latino - by far.

Texas is pretty sexy. Chicago/ Illinois accents make me want to become celibate. INSTANT turn off.

R67 Yes that accent is ear torture.

Upper Midwest, especially Michigan and Illinois are hideous. I also can’t stand Long Island accents, although they are worse on the women than the men. The women sound like cats in heat and god forbid that they laugh, you’ll be running for the nearest sound proof building.

Sexiest is a proper southern accent. Worst is an Appalachian accent (listen to the narrator for Matewan).

R79 that sounds like an L.A./Sunset Strip way of speaking, prevalent in the 1980s & 90s (which would fit your timeline of degradation) and spread like a virus thanks to original MTV programming. I dislike it too; it’s basically the concentrate of obfuscating stupidity.

The only person I’ve ever heard use it in an appealing listenable way is rock guitarist Tracii Guns. Somehow it’s cute, warm and inviting when he speaks in such a manner.

I'll vote for Georgian.

R101 The historical period?

R101 Or someone from Tbilisi?

R101, ah yes, the County that gave us peaches, Julia Roberts, and Flat Earthers.

I was just reading that actor Ben Jorgensen died. I liked his accent. I think he was from Staten Island. He starts at 0:22.

Vocal fry will be the death of us all.*

Can’t stand the California accent… Los Angeles specifically. Listen to Jack Tripper on threes company. Makes my skin crawl. Yes there is a Seattle accent ..It sounds like you’re swallowing every word. Ex.. lets go get a beer is... lets get a beereeruh.. You guys do weird things with your Rs.

How different or similar does an Oregon accent sound compared to a Californian one?

Tennessee