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According to Gilmartin, the love-shy tended to prefer vocal love ballads such as Broadway theatre music, brassy jazz music, easy listening, film soundtracks and light classical music, but not traditional classical music.

A few also mentioned having a strong liking for country and western.

Rock music of almost every kind was disliked by the love-shy, but only on an aesthetic level, not on moral grounds.

Gilmartin noted that surprisingly few of the love-shy men mentioned female singers.