Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut Zero View Post
I can't help but shake my head and smile at all of the people (mostly girls) who feel the need to justify their own preferences by assuming and criticizing the preferences of others (mostly guys). Even in the 'post hot guy' threads, [mostly girls] will pop in and be like "oh, I really don't find someone attractive by a picture. I have to see how they talk and how they act and how this and that....Oh, but by the way, here's a cute picture of them..."
I'm a little surprised at the condescending and judgmental nature of your post. Clearly, you don't seem to understand...so I'll do my best to explain. I won't try to speak for anyone else though, this is merely why I am one of those people who apparently "pop in" and claim that I am not attracted to random people that I know nothing about based on looks alone. (which, by the way, has nothing to do with "demonizing physical attraction")

One of the things you might have observed about the images I post and the people I find attractive, are that most of them are actors or other famous people, and not just random models from a magazine or random people from the internet. It's easy for me to be attracted to actors, because I associate them with their characters from different movies. It's the characters that I find attractive more so than the actor themselves. Every character has subtle nuances in their personality, specific mannerisms, tones of voice, levels of intelligence, facial expressions, how they carry themselves, etc. which, for me, is what causes the attraction.

I have no attraction or interest in a totally random "hot" person, because I don't know anything about them. For me, merely seeing an image of an attractive man is like looking at a mannequin, or a shell, I can't fantasize about them because I know nothing about them or what they are like. But if the image even has a few clues about what they are like, then it is a basis for attraction to grow. For example...I posted a few athletic girls in this thread. My attraction toward them is based on physical beauty but also respect because I know how difficult it is to be a successful athlete, and I admire their strength and fighting spirit. It works both ways of course, when I find out that a physically attractive person has a terrible personality, then I am repulsed, not attracted to them.

Apparently for some, physical attraction is very simple, and for others, it is more complex.

Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut Zero View Post
In all of the "post pictures of sexy..." threads, it seems like people just feel compelled to throw that disclaimer out there - that they (allegedly) aren't attracted to physical appearance at all. I just find it interesting, really. I mean, for all of the women that I think are physically amazing for one reason, I can name two that I think are attractive for different features or for aspects of their personality. And of course, when it comes to the type of person I would want as a partner, personality is going to trump physical appearance, but it's like people feel that it's dirty or shallow or primitive to simply find someone physically attractive anymore. To each his/her own, of course, but I guess I just can't relate to having such an aversion to the concept of physical beauty, as some of you seem to want to have. Not calling anyone out here, at all, though. It's just something I've been kind of surprised to see so much of, lately.
O, what's interesting is that I don't see anyone attacking others for being attracted to someone based on looks alone...what I do see, is that you clearly feel a need to defend yourself and your own views while needlessly casting judgment upon others who are merely sharing their own opinions on what they do or do not find attractive. Simply because I state that I am not attracted to a person based on looks alone, does not mean I am demonizing physical attraction, nor does it make implications about your own beliefs, and certainty does not imply that anyone whose views are different from mine are "dirty or shallow".