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Haha. If he has his top off I most definitely will never message him, or reply to his message, that's for sure!! (But that's a whole different thread.)
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I am replying this in the other relevant okcupid thread.
Based on OKTrends, you can tell that the number of girls who find a shirtless pic offensive is less than the number of girls who would love to reply to a guy with a shirtless pic.
And this exactly how my experience was, in fact the few girls who found my shirtless pic offensive are the same girls who never messaged or replied to me when I had a modest geeky-style clothed profile pic.
So where's the loss here? not much.
And please, pre-spare me the quality over quantity speech, the girls being interested in me there are not at all the empty-headed shallow girls.
Surprisingly, MOST of them are well-educated liberal feminists (strongest prospects: a feminist journalist with geeky interests living in beirut , an atheist lebanese architect, a rebellious atheist egyptian who lived in Beirut before , an extremely liberal mexican into the Levant political science who visited the region and Lebanon several times and will again....etc), the ones who found my pic offensive were more of the conservative religious type.
Yes, maybe there are many girls like you that would skip a guy because of his shirtless pic, but that doesn't automatically mean that they would message/reply him if he had a normal pic, in fact it's not likely they would since from what i gather here, girls are very selective in replying/messaging.
ON THE OTHER HAND, a lot of girls would get a spark while seeing a shirtless pic and because of this spark they'd message/reply him, something that wouldn't happen if the same guy had a normal pic.

Yes, I have certainly read with interest your success with the shirtless pic.
Most of my female friends would be turned off by that sort of pic (btw I have not seen YOUR pic, I'm talking about any guy). I do have one friend who is very smart, attractive, etc. etc. who probably would go for it. I also consider her somewhat naive in the dating world, and worry a bit about the sort of guy she might hook up with by the way I have seen her browse profiles on Oasis. *shrug*
Not having a topless pic certainly doesn't guarantee a reply from me. In fact, I'm extremely fussy. But a topless pic gives a guy much less chance than no topless pic. I have AS, so of course I am not a typical female. It appears that the typical female likes to see the shirt off. Cool.