There we have said it, well not really us but the Australian Courier Mail on Sunday did - and who best to ask then a group of 19 year old boys, an informed cross section of society.
Ask the members of the young male gallery who is their favourite surfer and they will nominate pipeline winner Alana Blanchard, who is never shy of modelling a G-string.
Blonde Bruna Schmitz is described as a bombshell, but Aussies Stephanie Gilmore and Sally Fitzgibbons are the entire package they're smart, sexy and they can surf.
At the Roxy Pro, at Snapper Rocks, many of the young males interviewed by The Sunday Mailadmitted they were watching the heats for the women, rather than for the surfing tips.
Manu Maier, 20, said he believed it was impossible for beauty not to be a factor in judging the heats.
"They look great, don't they? I heard about this surfing competition. I said to myself that I had to get here," Maier said, as a female competitor turned her back on the right-hand break, her small bikini shrinking to a G-string.
Jamie Mather, 19, said he thought women's surfing had become prettier in all sorts of ways. "They're surfing a lot more powerfully and with style. A few years ago they were ugly and weak. You could tell they were a female surfer," he said.
Both he and his 19-year-old mate Alex Kerry knew all about the "hot chick debate" and easily nominated the "Kournikovas".
"People are saying that, but it's really the hot chicks that are surfing good," Mather said.
"Previously, it was the more butch and not good-looking ones who were winning."
