Do you find diastema (gap between teeth) a turn-on or turn-off?

I don't want to fuck either Alfred E. Neuman or Madonna.

But any port in a storm.

You wanna impress me? Bring out the Cape Flats passion gap!

On that young man, yes.

I think it makes people look incredibly stupid.

I assume that most people with this gap keep it by choice. It can be fixed well enough through bonding for only a few hundred bucks

A definite turn-on

It works on some people and less on others, like everything, OP.

It makes him look like a 12 year old.

depends on what the rest of the guy looks like

i had an ex with this and it made him hotter

He has a beautiful white trash face and the elegant neck of a ballet dancer.

Please, it’s called a diastema.

Total turn-off.

But an even worse turn-off is something else I see more frequently than I ever would have imagined. I don't know what it's called, so I just call it "peg-teeth"... the teeth are all the same size (ish) and have spaces on both sides. Like little pegs instead of actual teeth. It kinda freaks me out, but I've seen it quite a bit. There was this hot guy I saw in some eastern european gay porn that looked so hot... then he smiled with his peg-teeth and it was just creepy. Almost like baby teeth. Bleh.

In some ways, I think, the decision to not have it fixed reflects a certain self-confidence.

“Give me your best Madonna face circa 1986 you vapid ho!”

It alone wouldn't make an attractive guy unattractive but it is very distracting, it draws your eyes to that gap. I have seen guys who have had it fixed and they look much better without the gap.

Zac Effron before and after pictured.

Pubes never get stuck between their teeth during servicing.

Best response = r17

The fugly shut-in DL eldergays who haven't been heartily fucked in years, if ever, would NEVER go near this monstrous young man in the OP's pic. And if he dare have FORESKIN, well, grand mal seizure!!

Can someone please translate r19 for me?

Datalounge award for the dumbest thread of the day.

What is dumb about it, r21?

Better than the 382743th Meghan Markle or Armie Hammer thread

I bet it makes flossing really easy!

Lol r23!

Some of the most unfortunate mouths I have seen are those with a too-large upper jaw. I can't explain it, but it creates a weird look and the mouth doesn't close naturally all the way. I assume to fix it would involve some kind of surgery

One of my exes had a gap in his front teeth and it made him sexy as fuck. He used to spit through it wich never failed to make me die laughing. I swear he could hit a bottle cap at 10 yards ,that gap gave him deadly accurate aim ! I hadnt thought of him in years,thanks for reminding me Op !

Primarily thicc bottom boy Will Braun has it and it makes him extra sexy.

Frawley only seemed genuinely happy when performing

^^^ apologies.

YES

Too-perfect teeth can be off-putting

r16 I think you're right about the distracting aspect of it. I think if it's smaller (a la Madonna), it can complement an overall aesthetic. If it's larger, then it does draw one's attention away from other parts of the face.

When I was growing up in the more ignorant 50s & 60s many people took any sort of physical difference in people's bodies as a sign of poor family genetics. The tooth gap was considered by some a low class birth defect, along with having a hair lip (cleft palate). or squinty eyes.

Personally I don't find it particularly attractive, but it certainly wouldn't turn me off someone.

If the guy is handsome I find it adds character and makes him sexier as he obviously is confident enough not to get it fixed. If it’s just an average Joe then it tends not to be attractive.

Turn on!

If it's too wide it looks like the person is missing a tooth, and that is off putting. Bobbi Christina Brown had one of those wide gaps and it really detracted from her looks IMO. With their money I can't fathom why they never had her teeth fixed.

Mmmmmm not that bad. After awhile you'd forget about the teeth. Perfect looking teeth (those over done white veneer jobs) look a bit too unnatural.

R16 - Zac Efron has also had a nosejob and chin implant.

Most tooth gaps look good on people who are already beautiful. Fill it in and you can appreciate the beauty - otherwise it's way too distracting. It's all you can focus on.

Interestingly, most of the people I've known with a diastema between the front teeth have been Italian/Italian American

r36 in a lot of photos, she's smiling with her mouth closed. I wonder if she was self-conscious about the gap

Terry-Thomas!

I find it unappealing. It gives people a childlike look, as though they've recently lost their baby teeth and their adult ones are just coming in.

[quote]It gives people a childlike look

Turn-on!

They can eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.

Two of my favourites - Sandra Bernhard and David Letterman.

[quote]Do you find diastema (gap between teeth) a turn-on or turn-off

Actually I find it every time I look in the mirror.

Whitney & Bobby were spending so much money on drugs they couldn’t afford orthodontics?

That's what I thought r47

Did Mike Tyson have a diastema or a missing front tooth??

I've never actually understood why they're supposed to be so atrocious.

It's a matter of degree I think r50

Also, this thread reminds me of the "things that are acceptable if you're attractive" thread(s). I think a diastema falls into that category

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r53 isn't so bad that it's distracting. It adds to his overall aesthetic

That Kathy Lee or Kelly or whoever morning show person with the athlete that aren’t together anymore had his gap fixed this week.

It turned out to be an April Fools' thing r55

I prefer perfectly straight, platinum white, chiclet horse teeth!

This is no doubt a case of confirmation bias, but I feel like diastemas are more common among people with African ancestry. Also, I've known several Italian Americans with this condition. (And don't forget Ms. Ciccone.) I think it runs in families.

On the other hand, I don't think I've ever known a person of East Asian descent with a considerable diastema between the front teeth (and I lived in East Asia for a bit). But again, this is very likely confirmation bias, and I wasn't looking for it either.

Who could be hotter than Terry Thomas?