Infatuation

[cheerful_deviant]

Why do some images or faces capture out imagination so? A certain twist to the lips, the curve of the cheek, a dimple, freckles… what?

I find that it happens to me less and less as I get older but now when it does happen it seems to last longer. The image of a certain girl will lurk in my mind during the day and haunt my dreams at night.

The current object of my infatuation:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/1002248/ebonygirl.JPG​

What is it about her that my mind has latched onto? She’s pretty but not breathtakingly beautiful. She has a nice body but so do most girls who pose for nudie pics. I know nothing about her beyond that she’s taken a few nudie pics. She could be a young single mom, a college student or a hooker for all I know. She may be brilliant or a complete moron. Sweet and polite or a complete bitch. Who’s to know?

If it was someone here in the AH or another person I know it would be easier to explain. Getting to know a person often leads to attraction. I personally have been very attracted to several women of the AH over the course of my 2 years here. But I was infatuated with their mind rather than their image, this I believe is more understandable.

Being infatuated with an image seems so shallow.

Anyone else ever become completely enthralled with an image?

 

[impressive]

Anyone else ever become completely enthralled with an image?

A few years ago ...

http://www.sciencefictionmuseum.org/Images/Movie%20Posters/Lara%20Croft%20Tomb%20Raider.jpg

 

[cheerful_deviant]

A few years ago ...

http://www.sciencefictionmuseum.org/Images/Movie%20Posters/Lara%20Croft%20Tomb%20Raider.jpg

Angelena Jolie or Laura Croft?

The actress or even the character I can see. At least you have an idea of what the person is like. But what about just a picture? Or a painting?

 

[3113]

The current object of my infatuation....What is it about her that my mind has latched onto?

Um...could it be the breasts? She seems rather well endowed.

Joking!

Anyone else ever become completely enthralled with an image?

That said, yes, of course. We all become infatuated, and we don't always understand why. That's how movie stars are made...including ones who might not be that handsome but have a certain sex appeal.

My AV is of Clara Bow...the "It" girl. If you look at pictures of her, you'll find her pretty, but most people find it hard to understand why so many folk were infatuated with her. I didn't understand. Then I saw a reel from one of her movies. And I understood.

It isn't the features. It's what radiates from those features. Sometimes paint-and canvass can do it, sometimes a sculpture. Sometimes a camera can capture it. Sometimes only moving pictures can capture it. And sometimes, it has to be live, in the flesh to capture it. But it's what is being radiated--sexuality, fun, energy, charisma, confidence, joi de vivre...that quintessence, is what makes the person irresistable to you and sometimes to many others as well.

It's not the freckles or the breasts or the curve of the face. It's what the person radiates out of those--not even their inner selves, sometimes; rather, what they become is like an emblem. Like Superman's "S"--you look at it, and you feel something, because those freckles, breasts, curve of the face in THAT person, represent something more to you. Those features, on that person, speak to you. And what they say is what you want and need to hear and feel and know.

 

[Recidiva]

For me it's always about the expression, the look in the eye, the way the body is held, the presence.

 

[WhiteTigerNipples]

Over the course of your lifetime, your subconscious keeps a record of your experiences, both physical and sensory. It assimilates the input and your responses to it and creates paradigms for your preferences over a broad spectrum of categories. Your reaction to a particular picture or person is the result of your subconscious's interpretation of how well they fit the particular paradigm relating to your total experience in interpreting beauty or sexual appeal.

 

[SeaCat]

I will not try to answer for others here but I will attempt to answer for myself.

It is not just the features of the person, it is how that person holds or carries themselves. (Yes this is visible even in pictures.)

Is that person happy with themself? Are they strong? (Both physicaly and mentally.)

You have seen pictures of my wife, I know I have posted them here on several occasions. She is not beautiful in the classic sense, (Yes she admits that even more than I do.) and yet she turns heads and gathers compliments. Why? Because she carries herself well. She is happy with the way she looks. She is notoverly strong physically but she is strong mentally. (She has to be, she's put up with me for over 13 years now. )

Her best friend is not a classic beauty either, and yet she captures my minds eye every time I see her. Also because of her strength and humor.

So for me it is because of what seems to shine through.

Cat

 

[impressive]

Angelena Jolie or Laura Croft?

The actress or even the character I can see. At least you have an idea of what the person is like. But what about just a picture? Or a painting?

Neither -- just the picture.

 

[TheEarl]

For me it's always about the expression, the look in the eye, the way the body is held, the presence.

So very true. A certain look on their face will do it for me every time.

The Earl

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Have to admit, she does little for me Devil Ducky. Certainly nothing that would approximate infatuation.

For a picture to move me, there has to be something in the eyes. All the ones I can think of that have the memory and continued fascination is linked to the them.

But I would be very hard pressed to put it into words.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oh, yes, I know what you mean, Ducky. And i've been smitten with an image quite often in my life- scrutinizing it, over and over, wondering if the promise I thikn i see- could actually have been in the model's mind at all. As a former model, I know damn well what canbe going through someone's mind, but I never fail to be swept off my virtual feet by an unexpectedly sultry image

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

CD,

I think it may be the gap between her front teeth that makes her special. A touch of imperfection can accentuate a woman's charm. Lauren Hutton, one of the top model back in the '70's had/has a similar gap.

The photo below of Dolly Read always appealed to me. The long brunette hair, her magnificent (natural) bosom, and those big eyes--honest guys, she does have eyes. Look up for just a second.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/909970/DollyRead13.jpg​

Rumple Foreskin

 

[SeaCat]

As I was saying.
Imperfection at it's best.

Cat

 

[TxRad]

Infatuated by a picture.... who me? never......

This is who inspired my story "Marla Sue".....

 

[Selena_Kitt]

The photo below of Dolly Read always appealed to me. The long brunette hair, her magnificent (natural) bosom, and those big eyes--honest guys, she does have eyes. Look up for just a second.

Hey, I've read her in some of your stories, Rumple... not her, per se, with the same name... but your description has led me to imagine a girl just like her... Funny, huh?

Beauty simply radiates...

 

[FallingToFly]

http://www.funeralofhearts.com/forum/index.php?act=module&module=gallery&cmd=si&img=11

If you explain what causes it, you explain away the mystery and the magic, and the infatuation disappears like a soap bubble.

Personally, I just like to sit back, and let the infatuation wash over me in waves...

Then I go write more smut.

 

[rgraham666]

CD,

I think it may be the gap between her front teeth that makes her special. A touch of imperfection can accentuate a woman's charm. Lauren Hutton, one of the top model back in the '70's had/has a similar gap.

The photo below of Dolly Read always appealed to me. The long brunette hair, her magnificent (natural) bosom, and those big eyes--honest guys, she does have eyes. Look up for just a second.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/909970/DollyRead13.jpg​

Rumple Foreskin

Her eyes were the first thing I noticed. Honest.

Sweet lady.

I can't remember the last time I became infatuated with a woman simply from a pic. I always have to build up to it.

 

[zeb1094]

Uh, this face did it for me for a long time...

http://gbonvoisin.free.fr/ashley_judd_2.jpg

Honest, it was the face!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Hey, I've read her in some of your stories, Rumple... not her, per se, with the same name... but your description has led me to imagine a girl just like her... Funny, huh?

Beauty simply radiates...

It wasn't intentional, but it's not surprising. I've always had a soft spot for brunettes, which is a good thing considering the wife unit is a brown-eyed brunette. While I've never intentionally made a character look like some famous person, after posting a Lit story called "A Special Photo" I came across a shot of Charlize Theron that was an almost perfect fit for the opening:

Sensual and seductive, she lay amid the rumpled sheets of the bed where we'd just made love, relaxed and at ease within the golden skin of her petite, perfect body. Not posing, not looking into the camera so much as through it, into the photographer, into me. Waiting with an expression of amused tolerance for me to finish and rejoin her.

Now here's the photo:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/909970/EYWQH-charlize_theron009.2.jpg

The story is still at Lit, but I've also posted it, along with that photo, on my blog. I'm proud to report someone asked if I'd taken the shot. Dream on.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[kbate]

I do not have a picture of the moment, but I became somewhat infatuated by Kate Beckinsale when I watched her in the rather poor movie, Underworld. The scene I think of, was at the very beginning of the film, she drops from a high perch, lands on feet, and then stands and walks away. Her movement, the simple line and motion, when she stood and walked away for some reason (infatuation) remains stuck in my mind as one of those perfections in life.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

http://my.toast.com.au/uploaded_images/kate-hudson-729162.jpg

This is the girlie who does it for me... love Kate Hudson for some reason...

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

For me it's always about the expression, the look in the eye, the way the body is held, the presence.

I couldn't have put it better myself. I was once infatuated with a girl named Vicki, who was a co-worker. She was not extremely pretty (she wore a little too much make-up, in fact), but she wasn't ugly, either. I didn't become infatuated with her until I started working next to her. Then I heard her sexy voice, saw the very animated expressions on her face, and noticed the friendly, flirtatious way that she carried herself. She was vivacious in every sense of the word, a real social butterfly. Hard NOT to find such a girl attractive. She was nearly always cheerful, and she had rather distinct ways of exclaiming, such as when she first saw me clean-shaven and said, "Holy smokes!" That's not a phrase that I am very used to, though that might a cultural thing.

However, she didn't return my feelings, she moved to another city, and I found a very annoying side of her toward the end. She was very whiny and deliberately uninformed about current events, which struck me as unwise. Oh, well. I think that I dodged a bullet in the end, and so did she, figuratively speaking. We would not have been compatible in the long run.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I have no photo, but I have always had a slight crush on Danish actress Connie Nielsen. If you have ever seen Gladiator, One Hour Photo, Mission To Mars, Devil's Advocate, or Soldier, you will understand why.

 

[Honey123]

I agree that an infatuation needs to be about how good looking the person is, it is definately about 1 or two things that they do that just seems to get your interest and keeps it.

 

[rgraham666]

I agree that an infatuation needs to be about how good looking the person is, it is definately about 1 or two things that they do that just seems to get your interest and keeps it.

Like those lovely dimples in your back?