I can see why you would either be called "cute" or "hot". At my best, the bad boys found lounging in 1980's HS hallways or modern casinos usually called me "a babe" of course I always wanted to be a "stone fox" but I could never get quite that thin or act quite that cool and my hair never feathered quite right (sigh) and those beotches always stole my BFs.
I thought of you when I read an essay in O magazine a while back that said that when people project simple but sincere non-sexual interest they often are read as signaling sexual interest because the body language is the same. For instance, you might lean in because you are fascinated by what some guy is saying but he might read it as "I am open to being physically close to you."
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver