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How often do you feel sexual/physical attraction, if ever?

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  1. Alder

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    Just wondering because there are some days I can see a naked woman and feel nothing/no arousal at all, other days I do and I feel quite a bit of sexual attraction/desire, but it varies a lot.

    I never actually understood or got any insight to how often/how strong other people feel sexual attractions, so I just wanted to ask.

    Do you feel aroused or attracted if you simply see a picture of someone naked of a sex you are attracted to or does it take more than that?

    On that offhand note- what does sexual attraction actually feel like to you (if you do feel sexual attraction)?


    Thanks! (And apologies if this isn't in the right forum? I wasn't sure if I should've posted this in another)
     
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    As of right now, I don't think I have ever truly experienced sexual attraction. I should say, I have seen both males and females naked in pictures, etc, but nothing got me aroused. It rather grossed me out.

    When I see a picture of someone naked, I might get flustered, but I don't get attracted or aroused. It would take more than that to get me aroused.

    I do get sensually and aesthetically attracted to some people though. I don't very often, but I do at times.

    I've never experienced sexual attraction, and I sort of don't want to find out what it feels like, but I do at the same time?
     
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    You'd have to define your version of "sexually attracted" for me first really.

    I find people attractive all the time, visually or emotionally/mentally. Doesn't mean I want to have sex with them.

    Maybe once a week I get horny enough to be at the point of "I wish there was someone around that I could have sex with," but even then I'm generally not thinking of any one person in particular.

    If in regards to a "I wish I could have sex with that person" feeling (discounting the obvious like celebrities or athletes - actual people in real life), maybe once every couple of months, at most. Usually only when I'm drunk (although it typically comes out in my head as "god I really want to kiss that person").
     
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    I just have aesthetic attraction when I look at pictures. To make me feel this sexual attraction, I must be close to the person I like.
     
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    Basically, this.

    Only omit the being drunk part.

    As for what it feels like, well, it typically starts with a physical sensation of warmth across the body, and then a few random flashes of scenarios in my head.
     
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    Desperation makes me feel attracted a lot. To a lot of people I probably don't even like. It's just my mind looking for someone to distract myself with.

    So... I would say about 10+ a week.
     
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    I have been horny for 6 years
     
  8. Fallingdown7

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    Hardly ever.

    The ONLY time I am sexually attracted to someone, or even physically attracted, is if we've been best friends for 3-5 years and have an emotional bond on the level of siblings. Then all of a sudden there is aesthetic attraction, and sexual desire.

    I have never been attracted to a naked stranger, pornstar, acquaintance, or celebrity in my life.

    Technically I'd be considered demiromantic/sexual, however I don't use those labels because I find them ridiculous (and wrongly used such as people only wanting to have sex with people they're emotionally attached to, which is almost everybody).

    Basically what I'm saying is that we all feel attraction differently, so what you feel is not unusual. My attractions are even more rare and I still identify as a lesbian- It just takes extra explaining for people to get it.
     
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    It's not about seeing a naked person for me. Actually, I'm not sure I've ever been sexually attracted to a naked body -- picture, video, or real life.
    But I do regularly experience sexual attraction to people. What does it take? Well, they just have to be... sexy. Either their looks, their smile, their jokes. I'll just see something there that I find attractive and voilà.

    How often does it happen? Fairly often. Of course, at the moment I'm seriously into someone, so basically every time I see her, which is daily -- but for example, I felt it just last night, upon first meeting an unconventional, eye-catching redhead with an odd sense of humor. I had a hard time not staring at her all evening. It was definitely physical attraction.

    The attraction can have varying degrees of intensity. It can just be a Woah, and I'll turn around for a second look at a stranger. That doesn't mean I would jump the stranger's bones if I got the chance, but, you know... Woah.
    Or it can be someone I actually know and am also romantically interested in and in that case, it's a Damn, I want to kiss them thing. As to what it feels like, well -- a sort of warmth, or fluttering, or a tightening below my navel, and then the thought going through my head: Woah.
     
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    I've never been sexually attracted to anyone in real life but celebrities? All the freaking time! I don't have to look at a video or picture, just thinking about someone is enough.
     
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    All the flippin time. It's kind of annoying actually.

    Happy days :slight_smile:
     
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    ^ Tell me about it! It happens like multiple times a day. Very annoying.
     
  14. Fallingdown7

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    I feel luckier than most here lol The world's record for the most times I've ever been attracted to someone thus far has been one person per year
     
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    Yeah it's hard to really explain what sexual attraction feels like and I have real trouble recognizing it or defining it sometimes. I guess sometimes I'm in the mood for sex sometimes I'm really not. But I guess I do know I who I want to sleep with so I think that's a start?

    Thanks for the replies everyone!
     
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    Physical attraction/aesthetic attraction is a daily thing.

    Sexual attraction: I'm not sure

    Romantic attraction: even more clueless
     
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    Okay seriously...Everytime I see or hear Robert Downey Jr's name Or Tom Hiddleston or Johnny Depp...So most all the damn time! Literally I am one of the horniest little shits around!
     
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    Seeing someone I think is pretty, almost every time I go out. I guess I'm pretty attuned to aesthetic attraction. For me this could be a man or a woman, and I think it's more like admiring looks or style, or thinking someone has an interesting appearance.

    Being sexually attracted, as in, the "turned on" feeling? I'm still confused about how people use these terms, are they generally considered synonymous? Either way, for me this is more of a once a month or so deal, I suppose? And with this, it's pretty much only women.
     
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    All the time, pretty much. Whenever I see a halfway decent looking man, I feel sexually aroused.
     
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    I'm very platonic (So watching the L word I'm like no! stop having sex!)
    And I'm also a Teleiophile so it's women between the ages of 25 and 40 and I dunno what it is but they just have to have a particular striking look about them. I don't really go for the barbie doll type people or what most people find attractive. Oh and they're normally straight, and married and sometimes have kids. :thumbsup: