The Ick Files: An A-Z of Your Biggest Turnoffs

The ultimate compendium of cringe-worthy libido-killing dating behavior.

You know the feeling: someone you might find cute says or does one tiny thing so profoundly unsexy that your attraction vanishes instantly. Attraction: gone. Chemistry: dead. Romance: canceled.

Congratulations. You've got the ick.

And you're far from alone.

The Ick Files is an A-to-Z catalogue of more than 175 real-life cases of instant attraction annihilation. Equal parts anthropological study and cautionary tale, The Ick Files explores the bizarre, irrational, painfully specific behaviors that instantly kill attraction--and unite daters everywhere in horrified solidarity.

Prime offenders include:

- A guy who doesn't believe in brushing his teeth.
- A guy who golf claps after a good hook up.
- A girl who owns thirty stuffed animals and kisses every single one of them goodnight before she goes to sleep.
- A guy who brings his laundry to an apartment dinner date.

And many more too icky to even put on the outside of a book.

Based on the popular Instagram @SubmitYourIck, and featuring fan-favorite submissions and new entries you'll wish you could unsee, The Ick Files turns the internet's most unromantic romantic confessions into the best type of secondhand embarrassment.