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GREENSBORO, N.C. -
When the website TotalBeauty.com recently ranked the Gate City as fourth in its list of eight cities with the ugliest guys, editors cited sexual inactivity, bad teeth and a high rate of obesity among the factors contributing to the dubious distinction.
Only Hagerstown, Md.; El Paso, Texas; and Miami, Fla., have uglier men, according to the online women's beauty magazine, which included statistics about education, contraception, erotica sales, gyms, exercise habits, smoking rates and others in determining the rankings.
Says the magazine:
"There's not a whole lotta lovin' going on in Greensboro, according to QualityHealth.com's survey of sexually active cities. Bad teeth and a one of the highest rates of obesity in the country might have something to do with it."
But some in Greensboro would debate TotalBeauty.com's rankings, particularly considering Miami, at No. 3, came in ahead (or behind) of Greensboro.
"Certainly with a city like Miami, which is an East Coast mecca for fashion, when a city like that is on the list, you have to question how they measure the quality," said Melissa, who works at Indigo Salon.
"Greensboro has a very metropolitan vibe. In a lot of ways, we find that our client base are fashion-forward, image-conscious and I think that speaks to the corporate core here ... the number of large corporations that have headquarters here and the number of universities," she said.
Licensed skin-care therapist Laura Rodgers believes that, with the increase in men coming to Blue Man Hair and Grooming to better take care of their image, the ranking is way off.
"I think we have a lot of physically fit men who take good care of themselves and a lot of gentlemen who care about how they look and present themselves to the world," she said.
Men like Paul Fenner, who had just one question: "I wonder how the women did."
Only Hagerstown, Md.; El Paso, Texas; and Miami, Fla., have uglier men, according to the online women's beauty magazine, which included statistics about education, contraception, erotica sales, gyms, exercise habits, smoking rates and others in determining the rankings.
Says the magazine:
"There's not a whole lotta lovin' going on in Greensboro, according to QualityHealth.com's survey of sexually active cities. Bad teeth and a one of the highest rates of obesity in the country might have something to do with it."
But some in Greensboro would debate TotalBeauty.com's rankings, particularly considering Miami, at No. 3, came in ahead (or behind) of Greensboro.
"Certainly with a city like Miami, which is an East Coast mecca for fashion, when a city like that is on the list, you have to question how they measure the quality," said Melissa, who works at Indigo Salon.
"Greensboro has a very metropolitan vibe. In a lot of ways, we find that our client base are fashion-forward, image-conscious and I think that speaks to the corporate core here ... the number of large corporations that have headquarters here and the number of universities," she said.
Licensed skin-care therapist Laura Rodgers believes that, with the increase in men coming to Blue Man Hair and Grooming to better take care of their image, the ranking is way off.
"I think we have a lot of physically fit men who take good care of themselves and a lot of gentlemen who care about how they look and present themselves to the world," she said.
Men like Paul Fenner, who had just one question: "I wonder how the women did."
