What do you consider "skinny"?

[SouthernYankee14]

I've been reading some posts about whether skinny guys/girls are attractive. The problem is, everyone seems to have a different definition of the word "skinny" or "slim". So I'm wondering, what do you consider to be skinny? If you could comment, which levels of skinny found in the poll do you find attractive?

Entire rib cage visible (anorexic-looking) with waist even thinner

Some ribs slightly showing (like a slightly toned muscle) with a waist about the same width

No ribs showing at all with toned muscles but not over-bulging (someone who goes to the gym a couple times a week)

Updates

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Although I can't vote in the poll, when I hear someone refer to themselves or someone else as skinny, I think of choice B. A naturally skinny person may have some ribs showing, but they don't bulge out of the chest like someone who is anorexic. Choice A seems more like people who have an eating disorder. Although, yes, they are skinny, we are not referring to them when we say "naturally skinny". If you are choice C, I would consider you average, not skinny.

[CeepSmiling]

I voted C because that is how I picture naturally thin or fit women, although I find B the most attractive. It is just a personal preference, based on sexual attraction. C would be the most beautiful vs. sex appeal with B.

[CeepSmiling]

Thanks!

[AshleyMD]

I'm C, I wouldn't call myself skinny, I'm in between skinny and fat. My muscles make me a lot bigger so I'm just not skinny.
A is anorexia so that is skinny but it's sickly skinny, B is healthy skinny.

[mutedaisy]

I'd have to vote B. I just use myself as a point of reference. If you're my size or smaller... you are skinny.

[SouthernYankee14]

That's how I see it too. I fall into choice B. So anyone who isn't as thin as me isn't usually skinny in my eyes, i. e. if I am jealous of your size, you are not skinny

[Error_204]

If you don't look like you're about to die but you look like you need some fried chicken in your life you're skinny. Southern rules.

[SouthernYankee14]

I hear ya hahahaha. Unfortunately, I devour fried chicken like it's my job and nothing happens to me (I fall into choice B).

[Error_204]

... We're gonna need the cornbread.

[SouthernYankee14]

Trust me I've tried it all. Crohn's disease is a bitch...

[Error_204]

Shit, I can't beat that. You win.

[SouthernYankee14]

I don't see it that way hahaha. I wish there was a way you could bulk me up a bit

[Error_204]

Where I have failed my grandma would not.

[thewanderingme]

I don't go to the gym, ribs aren't visible, but I'm skinny.

slim is slightly thicker than skinny.

[thewanderingme]

also, anorexia is a behavior. it has nothing to do with how thin a person is.

[SouthernYankee14]

I know. You are right. I have just found through reading threads on here that some people view it that way, so that's how I worded it.

[thewanderingme]

you worded your descriptions completely different.

[SouthernYankee14]

I said anorexic-looking. I know it's not the politically correct way to say it, and I don't really like using it that way TBH, but I know what most people think of when they hear "anorexic" so I was just trying to convey that image so we are all on the same page. I'm not trying to offend anyone. Sorry if I did.

[thewanderingme]

why not write severely under weight then?

[SouthernYankee14]

If I can figure out how to change it, I will

[crazyincalifornia]

I voted C, but no jelly belly for me.
I work out (Karate) almost every week.

[Nuns_in_Heat]

C. There's a big difference between skinny/slim/slender and anorexic.

[SouthernYankee14]

That's why I wanted to start this. I've read threads on here where people were talking about skinny people, but they all had different opinions of what the word meant. They were all using the same word, but had completely different interpretations of it. At that point, those threads became useless.

[Nuns_in_Heat]

I kow how u feel bro.

[DivaMonae]

C and under...