This rant from the Angry German in Esquire is priceless. As a German living in America, he unloads about Americans' bias toward accented-folk, particularly the Brits, and particularly when it comes to sex appeal:

Women seem to take the English accent as an aphrodisiac. I can say, "Hey, I work for an investment bank, have my own place, and write a column in Esquire magazine" and get no response. Whereas butt-ugly Mr. Winterbottom to my side says, "Hey, I am on parole and need to buy some coke -- care to help me out?" As long as he says it with a Brit accent, it is guaranteed that she will go home with him and fund his cocaine addiction.

I will not hesitate to admit that an accent is incredibly appealing. I remember squealing with one of my friends in  college when gave me the details on a promising love interest: "She's cute AND she has a British accent!" There's something about people who call elevators "lifts" and bathrooms "the loo" that makes them automatically cooler. (OK, I call bathrooms the loo too, but I don't sound half as cool as a Brit. Even when I try a British accent, it somehow comes out Southern. Don't ask.) Perhaps the James Bond movies have brainwashed us all to think British = hot, suave and cool?

However, an accent will get you only but so far -- Bad teeth? Out of here. Are you a jerk? No thank you.