What is it about Russian men that is so sexy?

There's a man taking an exam today in my office. He's in his late forties early fifties and he's not remarkable in anyway. He wasn't beaten with an ugly stick, but time hasn't been kind to him either. As soon as he spoke, however, and I heard that Russian accent he immediately became attractive . . . sexy.

A few years ago I was taking violin lessons from a Russian man in his late fifties early sixties and there is no other word to describe him but sexy. Like Sean Connery sexy. He would lean in close to adjust my finger position and he smelled of cigarette smoke and some expensive cologne. It would cloud my brain and distract me from what I was supposed to be doing. He smelled so foreign - so mysterious. When I got my posture just right he would place his hand on the small of my back and call me a beautiful princess. I couldn't understand half of what he was saying to me but it didn't matter - it was liquid gold.

And then of course there is Mikhail Baryshnikov. I had heard his name many times before I saw him for the first time on Sex and the City as Aleksandr Petrovosky. He is a remarkable man, but not necessarily an attractive man. In the show he played an artist who gets involved with Carrie (played by Sarah Jessica Parker). He's much older than her in the show, but yet again, there is just something there that makes him so incredibly sexy.

So, what is it that makes them so sexy? Perhaps is their lifestyle. Maybe it's the fact that their region, geographically, has had such hardship. Maybe it's a simply a matter of good genes. Maybe it's the vodka. I'll probably never know. But thank god for Russian men.