Wow, this thread got a little dramatic.
To go back to the original couple of posts -- excellent, excellent posts by Skills. That's been my experience too -- just giving up trying to figure out what guys are "good looking" or not. Women's tastes are far too varied.
Mikey's point about physique mattering less in clubs and most places where you're shirtless and your body is actually exposed is good as well. If you can't see the physique, it's not going to matter. That said -- I have gone to clubs with very, very large (think "could beat up a football player") friends who are insanely cut, and even with blazers on you can tell they are huge, and it does get them attention from girls (though still not a silver bullet... but it does grease the slide a bit). And I have had friends who did well picking up on the beach despite mediocre physiques. So nothing here is absolute. But in general -- if you can't see it, it isn't going to matter much (unless it affects your own confidence, an indirect effect).
The thing about girls closing their eyes is a little weird. The way the brain handles sensation is by shutting out one or more senses, it is able to focus on the fewer senses remaining. When your eyes are closed for a while your hearing becomes more acute. When eyes are closed and hearing is tuned out, your tactile sense (touch) becomes more focused and acute. If you've ever tried staring at a woman while shagging her, it might be exciting to stare at a beautiful woman, but the sensation in your dick drops noticeably. Assuming she is enjoying the sex, it can also be very difficult to get a woman to keep her eyes open for any good length of time, even when you order her to, before her eyes glaze over, roll back in her head again, and she's grinning and moaning with them closed.
Any time I see a woman's eyes open during sex I for one take that as a sign she's not enjoying herself nearly enough yet. Often a good hard thrust is all you need to shut those eyes tight.
To Skills's point about not being able to tell what men a woman will find good-looking -- this is a very, very good point.
I personally used to think I had some kind of "male looks-sensing disability" because I could never tell what guys a woman would find attractive. I would tell people "I can't tell guys' looks", because if I would say I thought a guy was good-looking, I would then hear from women he was not that good-looking, or even ugly. Meanwhile I would think a guy was ugly, and women would be saying he is so hot. I just shrugged, figured I was looks-blind with regard to men, and moved on.
Years later I realized all the guys who claim they can tell a good-looking man from one who isn't have the same issue, except they do not realize most of the women they meet do no share their opinions on guys' looks. A guy will say "That guy is so much better looking than me"; a beautiful woman will see the mournful man, argue that he is actually a lot better looking than the guy he's jealous of, and the mournful man will dismiss her and tell her she's wrong.
It's not really about what looks are women actually attracted to for these guys -- it is more what looks do they subjectively rate as attractive themselves (regardless what women actually think about the guy).
Next you realize women do the same thing.
Every guy has heard, all the time, women talking about "OMG, she is SO beautiful!" and you look at the girl they're talking about and shudder in horror. Dear lord that girl is disgusting looking! you think. If you try to argue that with the girls saying that they will tell you you're wrong.
How can YOU (as a man... you know, the one her looks are geared around attracting) be "wrong" about whether a woman is attractive or not?
Well, only if people are only concerned with their own subjective opinions on looks -- and not on what actually attracts members of the opposite sex to mate with them.
You realize most people, men and women alike, are this way.
When they talk about who is good-looking or not, they are not talking about it in an objective "this person is objectively more attractive to a larger number of people" way.
They are telling you "I find this person personally attractive, and wish I looked more like him, regardless what actual women would actually say about that or how they would actually react."
It is a strange thing.
(also liberating when you realize it, because then you can start styling yourself in ways you do not at first find actually attractive, but that women in fact respond to... and you realize your tastes and women's tastes are necessarily different, and if you want results it's more in your favor to tailor your appearance to women's tastes rather than yours and other men's tastes)
Chase