Unusual turn-ons.

[DesEsseintes]

Now, whilst I'd be happy for people to post their own strange fetishes here - autophiliacs, etc welcome - I was really thinking about physical aspects of people that aren't conventionally attractive but do something wild to you. Guys with washboard stomachs, piercing eyes and a thick cock; girls with slim bellies, perfect round tits and a tight pussy are all well and good - but EVERYBODY likes them. That's boring!

This could be men or women, straight, bi, gay or any other mode. For example: I LOVE women with freckles/moles. I have no idea why - something about the little blemish making the rest seem even more perfect, perhaps.

So tell me - open up, whether it's a hopeless long distant passion for that guy with the straggly beard, a love letter to your wife's tooth gap - whatever. Let it all hang out...

 

[DesEsseintes]

I don't want to be one of those freaks who keep rebumping their threads in the vain hope that someone other than them is interested in their bizarre topic. So I'll only do this once, and then let the thread die the death it perhaps deserves.

Last call - things most people wouldn't find attracted necessarily but which you do.

 

[norfolklad]

I don't want to be one of those freaks who keep rebumping their threads in the vain hope that someone other than them is interested in their bizarre topic. So I'll only do this once, and then let the thread die the death it perhaps deserves.

Last call - things most people wouldn't find attracted necessarily but which you do.

I absolutely love having someone drawing or painting me. I get the most wonderful sensation up the back of my neck when it happens. No idea why.

Someone doing that could get me to do almost anything for them.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Interesting - thank you. Is this professional modelling for art-classes and the like, or just a hobby?

 

[Bert_Fegg]

Armpit hair - maybe it's all the German porn I was exposed to as a squaddie in BAOR but I do find it rather sexy.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Thank you Bert - that's exactly the sort of thing I was wondering about. It's really common in Continental Europe, so there must be plenty of men who do find it sexy (not all those German women strap-hanging in the U-Bahn can be lesbians, surely?). Interesting also that it's, so far, only British people commenting: surely the cliches about American porn being all smooth and unreal can't be true, can they? (Michael Bywater once described that sort of HD porn, memorably, as 'neophytes with huge, sudden breasts' - I think huge sudden breasts describes that sort of porn perfectly!)

Anyone out there really love scars? Moles? Stubby fingers? Women's armhair? Tell Dr Des now...you're between friends here.

 

[norfolklad]

Interesting - thank you. Is this professional modelling for art-classes and the like, or just a hobby?

Just someone who enjoys sketching/painting doing it off the cuff.

Armpit hair - maybe it's all the German porn I was exposed to as a squaddie in BAOR but I do find it rather sexy.

Count me in. It should be compulsory. Maybe the EU would pass a directive.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Count me in. It should be compulsory. Maybe the EU would pass a directive.

Can you IMAGINE the Sun headlines?

"Muff we put up with this?"

"Hairy go again!"

"Are they taking the pits?"

Etc, etc...

 

[StarryEyed665]

Haha (Another Brit here) Yessss scars are sexy. Also, body odour (not when it's overpowering, but y'know . . . I'd like a man to smell like a man)

 

[DesEsseintes]

I know what you mean, Starry Eyed - and welcome to the thread, of course. For me it's the difference between fresh and stale sweat. The former is sexy because of what it implies (physical effort, which is pretty much always a turn-on) whilst stale sweat surely means they just haven't washed.

 

[dawn0282]

Yessss to the below! I love the natural scent of a male, even sweaty. In fact, any added fragrance beyond the clean scent of soap is a turn off to me!

I suppose along the same lines, work stained and calloused hands...

Haha (Another Brit here) Yessss scars are sexy. Also, body odour (not when it's overpowering, but y'know . . . I'd like a man to smell like a man)

I know what you mean, Starry Eyed - and welcome to the thread, of course. For me it's the difference between fresh and stale sweat. The former is sexy because of what it implies (physical effort, which is pretty much always a turn-on) whilst stale sweat surely means they just haven't washed.

 

[GoodbyeGirl]

Also agree with the below, which may mean it's not that unusual? I mean, we're meant to be attracted to the scent of others we like, so... But I love a man fresh from a workout, flushed, slightly sweaty, and smelling like a man.

Haha (Another Brit here) Yessss scars are sexy. Also, body odour (not when it's overpowering, but y'know . . . I'd like a man to smell like a man)

I know what you mean, Starry Eyed - and welcome to the thread, of course. For me it's the difference between fresh and stale sweat. The former is sexy because of what it implies (physical effort, which is pretty much always a turn-on) whilst stale sweat surely means they just haven't washed.

Yessss to the below! I love the natural scent of a male, even sweaty. In fact, any added fragrance beyond the clean scent of soap is a turn off to me!

I suppose along the same lines, work stained and calloused hands...

 

[DesEsseintes]

Interesting - the three most recent posters may be interested in the latest dating trend in the UK, involving sniffing T-shirts for pheromone compatibility.

 

[StarryEyed665]

Interesting - the three most recent posters may be interested in the latest dating trend in the UK, involving sniffing T-shirts for pheromone compatibility.

Holy shit, hadn't heard of that! Haha, that's kinda strange and awesome

 

[DesEsseintes]

I know - part of me thinks it's horrible that human beings are reduced to their basic chemical structure in such a reductive way. And another part of me finds it strangely animalistic and seductive.

 

[StarryEyed665]

I mean, probably not the most romantic 'how did you meet' story, but intriguing nonetheless - "I fell in love at first smell" (...NOW I'm going to sleep I promise)

 

[DesEsseintes]

(...NOW I'm going to sleep I promise)

In a three day old T-shirt I hope?

All the best.

 

[norfolklad]

Holy shit, hadn't heard of that! Haha, that's kinda strange and awesome

It fascinates me too and I'm sure there's something to it. There have been a couple of women at least who've told me that I only have to get near to them and they're getting soaking wet. I've always wondered if pheromones were the cause.

 

[209street]

Steve Buscemi is hot. Cool teeth. Tall and really skinny.

 

[DesEsseintes]

It fascinates me too and I'm sure there's something to it. There have been a couple of women at least who've told me that I only have to get near to them and they're getting soaking wet. I've always wondered if pheromones were the cause.

It could be your massive hose, of course.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Steve Buscemi is hot. Cool teeth. Tall and really skinny.

That's a whole new angle - thank you! Yes - famous people who aren't conventionally attractive but who are to you.

The problem for us straight guys, without going into a massive feminist rant, is that there are so few women on TV or in the movies who aren't conventionally attractive. There are quirky girls (Ellen Page, Winona Ryder, etc, etc), but they are all cute as well as different. Are there any female equivalents to Steve Buscemi?

 

[hardcollege4]

Girls with larger than average noses, wasn't really something I noticed until I noticed it if that makes sense and then I realized most of the girls I was attracted to had larger noses. Also curly hair I really like, but that's not as unusual

 

[209street]

That's a whole new angle - thank you! Yes - famous people who aren't conventionally attractive but who are to you.

The problem for us straight guys, without going into a massive feminist rant, is that there are so few women on TV or in the movies who aren't conventionally attractive. There are quirky girls (Ellen Page, Winona Ryder, etc, etc), but they are all cute as well as different. Are there any female equivalents to Steve Buscemi?

I always saw that as a problem in entertainment. Men are "allowed" to be quirky, funny, offbeat, and not conventionally attractive. Women however, can only be quirky, funny and offbeat, but they must be conventionally attractive. I'm trying to think of an actress like that but can't right now. There is an actress who is not a star but has been in many movies since the 1980's. Mare Winningham. She played the nerd unattractive girl in St. Elmo's fire, but is actually very talented. She is not conventionally attractive, but also not well known. So not a good example. Tina Fey is funny, but very pretty and hot. Soooo.

 

[lizxxxj]

guys in suites turn me on, and so guys with old cars.

 

[DesEsseintes]

You're right - we haven't really evolved too far from that old cliche of the girl in glasses and her hair in a bun who shakes it out, takes off the specs and suddenly is beautiful.

Think of the girl everyone tries to make-over in Clueless, or the actress in Ugly Betty. Even girls playing 'ugly' have to be at least pretty, if not downright gorgeous. English sitcoms seem to be more realistic than American ones (look at the cast of Friends versus the cast of the original Office, for example), but even then it is only the men who can get away with being properly unattractive.

Maybe this needs to be a new campaign - Unattractive women in film and TV!