What do you find strangely erotic?

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Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

porn

The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

i don't like ass unless it's wrapped in a nice pair of jeans (must have back pockets). i think i have a jean fetish.

oh, also a sneaker fetish

JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

Girls' bums.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

the girl or the vodka?

luna (luna.c), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

Garlic

Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

A pretty girl asked me if I wanted a bite of her muffin this morning. That was a surprisingly weird moment. Sometimes I wish double-entendres just didn't exist. Then I could lead a somewhat normal life.

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

excellent hair can be quite stimulating

todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke - This Mess We're In

Crackity (Crackity Jones), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

the girl/vodka combo obviously

also, an exposed neck when a girl has her hair up

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

an exposed neck when a girl has her hair up

ohhhhh yes.

and midriffs generally, and pierced ones in particular. well, right up until the very second my sister told me she'd got a belly-button ring, and then suddenly all the eroticism drained away forever.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know about strangely, but voice: especially when it isn't saying anything.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

exasperated deep breath

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

Sound in general, maybe, because skin on fabric can be good, too.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

Also Batgirl.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

there's nothing strange about that

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, that's true. Sometimes I think the reason Ginger was hot is because she reminded me of Yvonne Craig.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

Tep, for you (nsfw) http://www.bearsystems.com/marines/batgirl.jpg

The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

actually, if you do a ggl img serch for b-girl, you'll find all kindsa horribly nsfw stuff. Ewww.

The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

That may be the world's most frightening URL.

VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

The smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

Verbal (Verbal), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

See, it's not the costume, is the thing, it's the costume on Yvonne Craig in the mid to late 60s. I probably should've said "Batgirl in the old Batman TV show."

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

Crackity OTM; Thom Yorke has never been sexy before or since

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

tep's ann-margret photo

stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Well yeah, damn right.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

For that matter: Ann-Margret in Tommy.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

I even though she was hot in Grumpy Old Men, and that Sophia Loren was hot in Grumpier Old Men. So was Walter Matthau.

The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

Look at those eyes! She was the Nu Mandy Moore of the day!

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

The ocean.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

LIBRARIES.

g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

Ouzo

Aaron A., Friday, 26 March 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

Large passenger planes like a 757 or DC-9

Aaron A., Friday, 26 March 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

Oh shit yeah libraries TOTALLY.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

and librarians!

The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

a haircut

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

the phrase "hosted by tripod"

Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

"Turquoise Hexagon Sun"

VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

a manicure. especially when the hot oil is massaged into the palms.

mandee, Friday, 26 March 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

forearms

Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

freckled shoulders

mandee, Friday, 26 March 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

oooh yeah

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I have forearms and freckled shoulders.

The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

"I have forearms" for some reason is the funniest thing in the world right now.

VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

unusual teeth

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

bumblebees

phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

OOoooooohhoho.

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

freckled shoulders is the only reason i fancy phillip seymour hoffman.

mandee, Friday, 26 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

porn can't deliver genuine eroticism, because it is always mediated and centered on images of no one you'll ever meet, so the real people part is completely removed.

Porn can bring to mind experiences you've had, can't it?

I feel I was lucky to not first experience porn in the age of broadband, I can't imagine being confronted with all of the porn available on tube sites without some grounding in what sex is.

louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 14 June 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link

sub question

at what age did you first watch porn

F# A# (∞), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link

and did you find it in the woods

mookieproof, Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link

a lone log among the bush

F# A# (∞), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link

does watching the Spice Channel to barely discern a neon green nipple through the squiggles count

cr.ht (crüt), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link

I love voices that sound like they're from layrnx's ravaged by decades of smoking. I would fuck Shohreh Aghdashloo's voice.

Chaos reigns... in my pants (Sanpaku), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link

I thought that link wld be that old lady from the anti smoking ad

U kno the one that takes a drag from the hole in her neck

F# A# (∞), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link

I find dissociation strangely erotic.

sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link

my first exposure was similar to cruts but honestly it was hotter not knowing what I was looking at

homosexual II, Friday, 15 June 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link

otm

cr.ht (crüt), Friday, 15 June 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link

My first exposure was hedge porn (that's pornography found buried in a, not hot topiary action). I like the distinction that the erotic admits while pornography excludes.

I'd totally agree with libraries. There's a buried tension in all libraries, I think. I also once found a pair of discarded lace ladypants in a stairwell of my local uni library.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link

*found buried in a hedge

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link

I can see why people find the ASMR whispering videos erotic but the sensation of experiencing ASMR isn't actually erotic? I mean I'm sure there are people turned on by soft whispering but the physical shivering coolness of ASMR is more like a glowing euphoria than any kind of sexual release. Part of the reason the community of ASMR has struggled to find legitimacy as a phenomenon is because people characterise it as sexual but the majority of people don't experience it that way and I wish people wouldn't conflate the two sensations so easily

boxedjoy, Friday, 15 June 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link

I mean my ASMR triggers are more from white noise from a vacuum or hairdryer and I can assure you there is nothing erotic about it

boxedjoy, Friday, 15 June 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link

this is an extremely contentious issue in the asmr community but the circles of the venn diagram clearly overlap for at least some people some of the time

ogmor, Friday, 15 June 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link

there are some women who clearly bank on offering a highly sexualized asmr experience eg pp0m0

F# A# (∞), Friday, 15 June 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link

yeah, a lot of ASMR channels are outlets for older married men to have quasi-interactive liaisons with cute 20-year-old college girls. if wifey confronts you about your habit, all you have to do is patiently explain to her that tinglequeenASMRotica is a therapist, not a camgirl, and that you're watching her "ASMR Blowdrying Your Balls and Taint Roleplay" video to destress after a long day of work, definitely not for onanistic purposes

the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link

I get a weird almost-erotic thrill from leaning on the car as you fill it with petrol and feeling it sink under the weight of the liquid.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link

eroticism has to do with real people and is very situational. a wink and a smile, or touching fingers, can be highly erotic in the right situation, more so than any amount of conscious sexual role-playing.

That's what I like about Pasolini's Salò - all those actors enacting gruesome D/s fantasies are constantly breaking character, adding a tapestry of unscripted detail. A triumph of amateurism, just like good sex.

oder doch?, Friday, 15 June 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link

I get a weird almost-erotic thrill from leaning on the car as you fill it with petrol and feeling it sink under the weight of the liquid.

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, June 15, 2018 5:45 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thread finally delivers

you bet, nancy (map), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link

The taarna segment of the film heavy metal

mind how you go (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link

Squeaky sibilants.

dinnerboat, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link

lol @ "ASMR Blowdrying Your Balls and Taint Roleplay"

First prn = finding several issues of Penthouse from the mid-80s in my dad's nightstand while in HS

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link

oh wait "watched"

First time not including the trying to make out boobs through the scrambled channels = with a male friend my freshman year in college who couldn't believe I'd never seen it and felt the need to change that. Yes, an 19 year old boy invited me to his dorm to smoke up and watch porn and I still didn't realize he was trying to hit on me until like 20 mins in.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link

Having the back of your neck shaved with a straight razor.

29 facepalms, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link

well ya
but thats surely p predictable

tired culché (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link

Thought it was just me but ok.

29 facepalms, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link

okay ENBB I need to know more about this, what exactly did this guy show you (no crepe)

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link

xp it's just you and darragh i think

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

the German language

ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 20 July 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link

sehr erotisch

j., Friday, 20 July 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link

armpits

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 20 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link

Prenups

No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link

armpits otm

marcos, Friday, 20 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link

ruins the cosign by going for the high five and making tim allen neanderthal noises

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link

cloud lightning

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link

Can someone bump the weird things you find attractive thread im on my phone

Tks

F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 July 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link

armpits are just a few centimeters away from sideboobs so, sure

El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 July 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link

I dont find anything that would be considered strange erotic

Like im wrackkng my brain over this and got nothin

F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 July 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link

I have one, I think:

Certain female voices have a strong effect on me, and not that "sexy voice" R&B music video nonsense; I'm pretty much all in for nasally dorks - and sometimes, in a completely non-sexy context (for me - I realize "sexy context" in a thread like this is, how you say, a very fluid notion) a woman with the kind of voice I like will employ the interjection "huh!" and I take about a minute to focus, because um.

El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 July 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link

I'm a sucker for a strange / weird voice too. I think it stems from having a crush on John Malkovich as a kid.

homosexual II, Saturday, 21 July 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link

also cosigning armpits

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 21 July 2018 03:31 (five years ago) link

Love southern type accents with women.
Or like drawls, and the most erotic of all is a great vocabulary...damn

No angel came (Ross), Saturday, 21 July 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link

eleven months pass...

from 'the way life works', by mahlon hoagland and bert dodson:


Nature creates new combinations by exchanging information. The earliest life forms, simple bacteria-like organisms, found a way to inject bits of information into each other—a primitive form of sex.

j., Tuesday, 25 June 2019 07:27 (four years ago) link

Ha, in my first year as a biology student a genetics professor started a lecture about bacterial genetics with "Today we'll be discussing bacterial sex!"

willem, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 07:57 (four years ago) link

Strangely erotic - running my hands under hot scalding water often produces a sensation like an orgasm.

No mess, but I'm sure it's not super healthy for your hands to do all the time...

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link

eight months pass...

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/gary-lutz-private-parts-of-speech/

Over the last year, little by little, I have grown suspicious of the erotics of art. It’s not just that I object to the opposition, famously asserted by Susan Sontag, between interpretation and sensuality. It’s that any overeager commitment to producing or consuming art as an erotic experience often results in some very inexpert writing about both aesthetics and sex—rhapsodic, humorless, self-aggrandizing prose that gets off on the most basic category errors. When asked by an interviewer what the most interesting thing was that she had learned from a book recently, the actress and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge replied, “That orgasms can be brought on by art, and vice versa.” I found this idea distressing. Practical considerations aside, what kind of sick person wants her orgasms to come from art? A person more concerned with receiving pleasure than giving it is one answer; a person who prefers her pleasure depersonalized, disembodied, and safely contained by representation is another. Art, after all, doesn’t demand reciprocity or reality.

Reading the aggrieved, heart-dragging short stories of Gary Lutz complicates these doubts. Grungy-haired and lantern-jawed, unnerved by sustained eye contact, and self-conscious of his middle age, Lutz is not ashamed to admit in interviews that he suffers from “ED”: “Experience Deficit.” He presents himself as a man who has lived a singularly unremarkable life of dejection, a man to whom nothing exciting has happened and who is incapable of exciting himself or anyone else—except through writing. Writing, he tells us, is where one word can draw other words toward it, tentatively at first, then with a violent resolve. Writing is where one sentence can “overcome its aloofness or diffidence and begin to make overtures to another sentence,” each rubbing the other the right or wrong way—more often wrong than right—before settling into a jittery, strained alliance. Writing is where withdrawing paragraphs can gaze upon each other with agony and longing, for they know that the end of one paragraph and the beginning of the next announces a traumatic rupture, “an irreversible parting of ways.” “Yes, I think there might be some fetishizing of language going on,” Lutz admits. “Shouldn’t writing be far more sexual than sex?”

j., Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link

Underbites

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 7 March 2020 07:45 (four years ago) link

confusing first paragraph out of context. what kind of person finds interest in judging the sexuality of others as "sick"? well, the critic, of course, and fair enough, that's her job. lutz certainly does seem like a miserable, yes, aggrieved person, from the excerpts provided, and in that seems fairly unexceptional.

i suspect that there's something else at the heart of fetish other than the absurd, and also that the "something else" in question is probably inaccessible to lutz. unexceptionally, resorting to ero-guro, fetishizing grievance, is his fallback.

(for me, the objectified "other" of the fetish has tended to be the self; fetish writing has been an asymptotic approach to the self. that might just be me though.)

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link

frankenstein girls

☮️ (peace, man), Saturday, 7 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link


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