Karin Tabke | Hot Cops and Hot Knights
I want to start off by thanking everyone here at Fresh Fiction for inviting me as a guest blogger today! I’m really happy to be here.
So, let me ask you this: What is it we find so sexy about those sexy cops and to die for knights??
Hmm, could it be the washboard abs and the muscular arms? Or those brilliant piercing eyes that seem to look right into our souls? Maybe it’s that thick dark hair we want to run our fingers through. Or the uniform or the chain mail?
Or maybe it’s more, much, much more. Could it be the many layers that comprise an alpha’s true character? You know? that command presence they have when they walk into a situation and immediately know what to do: The bad guy is apprehended, the damsel in distress is no longer in one kind of distress but now a completely different kind of distress.
I think for me, what makes a guy sexy, whether he is a knight of William the Conqueror or a beat cop, is his brain. It’s all connected to how he works. How he thinks. His compassion, his take control attitude, his willingness to stand for something and fight for it, but mostly, his passion for everything he does. Whether it’s work, play or love.
A man who is unwaveringly committed is sexy. A man who when he walks into a room does not have to roar to let everyone know he is the king of the jungle, he just is, is damn sexy. That understated rawness and power that every woman wants to tame is beyond hot.
He could be wearing a five thousand dollar Italian suit or holey Wranglers and a faded tee-shirt. A sexy man looks good in anything. He wears it all, well. He has that charisma that smile that way to make each woman he makes eye contact with feel as if she were the one. Be still my beating heart. A sexy man can make a woman forget her name, where she lives and what she had for breakfast. He can take a confident over-achiever and reduce her to a pile of stuttering mush. He can make a wallflower bloom. He can make grandmothers blush and wish they were forty years younger and make a school girl wish she would hurry and grow up.
Sigh, it is because of men just as I have described that I write romance. I fall in love each time I write a book. How about you? What makes a guy sexy, and tell us who your all time favorite romance hero is.
Karin
http://www.karintabke.com/
Labels: Historical, Karin Tabke, Romance, sexy, writer
8 Comments:
Definitely a sense of humor. A guy who tries to make you laugh is very sexy. Being confident, not caring what others think of him. And though I can take care of myself, it's nice knowing a guy can take charge and has a bit of a protective streak in him. And, a guy who looks good in jeans is way, way sexy ;)
Mmmm sexy is so many things. Yes, the hot bod and the even hotter butt. A gorgeous face and ripped biceps always get to me. But sexy is in the guy's confidence. His belief that yes, he can do whatever he says he will and he'll rock it. The guy can be confident about anything - taking down the bad guy, kicking ass, rerouting a computer system or doing surgery on a dog in the middle of the desert. I don't care what his thing is (thing as in area of expertise *g* that other thing now...) as long as he comes across as being the best at it.
I really do believe that sexiness is a combination of a lot of things: A glance, a smile, a voice. In fact, I'm a "voice" person (I used to work in radio, so maybe that's why). If a man's voice is sexy--and he plays that "instrument" for all its nuance--then he has me hooked!
Stacy sense of humor is so important! Especially if they can laugh at themselves!
surgery on a dog in the desert?
Now there is a man!
Maria, I love a deep sexy voice. lol, if my guy sounded like Mickey Mouse that would be the end!
Karin, Jase in Jaded is pretty hot. :) I don't know if I have an all time hero. I was a fan of the characters Bogey played. Someone cynical but at the same time with a sense of humor and who is willing to risk his life to do what's right. That's my kind of hero. And I'm with Maria about voice. Gerard Butler's voice makes me melt. Yum.
Great post, Karin. All time favorite romance heroes? Hmm, that's really tough. I think the first romance hero I fell in love with was Wulfgar from The Wolf and the Dove by Woodiwiss. He was such a wonderfully tortured alpha male. Another romance hero I've never fogotten was Vashon from Till Dawn Tames the Night by Megan McKinney. OMG, he really was an alpha alpha, and when he finally gave his heart... OMG *sigh*
I love a reluctant hero, for some reason. He knows he 'can' help, and he eventually does, even though its going to cost him / disrupt his life / cause him pain, because it's the right thing to do. Add a sense of humour and some biting wit, and I'm a happy camper.
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