Hot Guy Hot Spots - Australian Edition

Preamble: This post isn't so much about not buying stuff, but about having some righteous eye candy while you perhaps, in fact, are buying stuff. 

This is a first pass attempt to classify Australia's hot-guy hot-spots.  Fellas, we just like you so much :) 

So, we're not about to launch into a conversation with the Hot Guy(s) about Wittgenstein or Rio +20 here (BUT omg wouldn't it be brilliant if you could have both brain-candy and eye candy!), nor are we interested in knuckle-dragging types who haven't yet learnt to at least pretend they aren't interested in your tits above all else. We're just looking for some easy-on-the-eye types and a tantalising hint of testosterone in the air while we go about our daily business.

1. Hamburger joints.  McDonalds or Hungry Jacks? Nooooooo.  I mean other places like Grill'd, or benbry Burgers (in Manly etc...yes Manly does live up to its name).  There's always a couple of good lookin' guys in there feasting on something tasty and masculine.  And the kinds of women who go to places like this aren't those hyper-competitive sorts who you can feel burning laser holes in your T-shirt as they critique / stare at your backside on your way past while they decide you are a lower life form / pretend that you are in order to nurture their own insecurities. Nooo. The girls who come here are generally upstanding members of the sisterhood.

2. Guys who work in the "small bars" that are finally emerging with a vengeance in Sydney. All. Cute.  

2a. Baristas. Invariably cute, BUT only if they make good coffee.  Bad Coffee = your whole day is wrecked.  Anyone who wrecks your day is NOT cute. Nor Hot. With one exception; they wreck it by being so hot you are distracted for the rest of the afternoon daydreaming about how goddamn hot that new barista is and thrilled that you have a hot New Flirting Object (NFO).

3. Photography classes, Film Studies.  Guys who are into this stuff are both cool and hot.

4. The Engineering faculty of any university. (FYI, they're mostly outdoorsy types: See items 5-7.)

5. Any surf beach (when there are waves).

6. Ski-fields and then the bar which has the best apres-ski deals

7. Indoor climbing walls, or actual rock climbing - but climbing walls have a greater density of Hot Guys.

9. Bookshops.  Libraries (specifically, the State Library in Melbourne).  Oh, yes.  Men Who Read Books? Outrageously sexy.  My personal guidelines about men who own fewer than 10 books are that you can sleep with them, but don't start a relationship with them.  Your brain will suffer.  Sorry, but it's true if you value literacy / fresh conversation and want something beyond food and sex (not that there's anything wrong with that).  The only possible loophole here is if he owns a second hand book shop and his literature is on high rotation, or he is on first name terms with the staff at the local library. 

8. Any decent pub. Pubs can be a bit iffy, as they attract their fair share of men who could really do with a few less beers and a few more daily 5km power walks, plus your average chauvinistic pigs, so you have to go to pubs in an area with the right demographics (besides, pigs in sheeps clothing are more or less present wherever you go; it's just the density you have to keep an eye on).  The chances that a pub will be 'decent' decreases in exponential proportion to the number of poker machines in operation at the venue.  The inverse applies if there are pinball machines.  Student pubs, even better.  Any pub near a beach, snowfield, or other adrenaline-based playground will probably yield hotties. 

9. Music shops - alas, not CD stores, mostly because they no longer exist - although you could definitely try places that sell vinyl.  I mean places that sell actual musical instruments.  Go in and mess around on the keyboards or try out a guitar.  Guaranteed that a totally sexy talented musician type will come to your assistance.  e.g. Big Music in Crows Nest, Sydney.

10. Gigs and music festivals, obviously.  But often all jumbled up with hot women.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing.  

11.  Politics lectures. Definitely.  Educated, politically aware, AND hot, in a cute just-woke-up-and-ran-to-my-lecture kind of way.  Bed hair on politics student hottie who works as a personal trainer  in his spare time: add a big fat HIGH DISTINCTION.

Obviously, further suggestions are welcome.  Other cities, other venues. Contribute to the Eye Candy Library today! Here's looking at you, boys! ;)