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In general I don’t find guys to be sexually attractive. But certain types of guys/media can be arousing.
This happens to me with women. Some pictures erotic, but not necessarily. And I'm not entirely sure it goes as far as arousing, but it's certainly pleasurable.

Either I can an aspect of myself in her beauty or I see something I find feminine: a rounded curve, a slender limb, the smooth expanse of a décolletage.

The point of the ad is sex and it shines through. As in, I don’t want to make out with him, but that shot makes me think about sex.
This is the reason for my original suggestion of putting this comment in The Gaze.

My assumption on this subject raised in that thread has been that I'm simply not overly visual. This conversation has brought the realization that, while that may be true, most of what's out there is catered to the male view and it simply doesn't catch my attention.

Often, when I've scrounged for something to put in that thread, it leaves the, ah, usual viewing male suspects, underwhelmed. 🤣

The pictures I post aren't overtly sexual, i.e. little to no nudity.

I think this ties to @Apisto's comment. In that I don't necessarily want to make out with then, but something about them makes me think of sex.

Which ties into the whole duality of the images posted above. One is meant to attract gay men. The other is meant to make straight men feel masculine. Both directed towards men, in entirely different ways.

The images I gravitate towards are more likely the latter, because the straight male masculinity is what I find appealing.

I am now realizing how deprived my life has been of objectification visuals. 🤣
 
This is quite verbose but interesting as hell: the gist is that the "real" molecules that used to give perfumes their soul are now outlawed and new molecules research and approval is too spendy for small perfumers who want to do niche. Mass industry relies on cheap and safe and successful molecules that are, in years, increasily "all the same".
This was incredibly informative and I found her delivery delightful.

I want a bottle that sits out on the counter and intimidates the other bottles with a scent that is not entirely polite!! :p

Scent came across my radar a couple of years back and I became curious. Her talk, I think, explains some of the struggle I keep running up against.

Most perfume, to me, cost regardless, has an underlying . . . the best way I can describe is tang, that I don't care for. It's endemic. I'm now wondering if it's ambroxin and company I don't like. 🤔

Too, I've become more and more particular as to what I put on my body, so I looked at organic or cleaner options. Top tier perfume houses aren't transparent as to ingredients (trade secrets) and both midrange and luxury may use synthetic fixatives like phthalates.

Higher end niche and artisan perfume options are limited, and the scents don't cling. The best so far, by far, has been Henry Rose. EWG certified, and they have a new fig-based scent called London 1983 that is quite scrumptious.

But, their scents still have a similar underlying note. Different than the one mentioned above. Turns out EWG certified scents only pull from a pool of about 300 ingredients, so have less diversity. Plus, Henry Rose deliberately formulate scents with the idea of layering.

It's a conundrum. I don't like the underlying similarity.

I mean, I guess it's not like I need lots of scent choices.

But if I'm going to wear anything I want it rich, body clinging, head turning. A dense extrait. With a bottle that screams - no, flaunts, decadent.

Because I'm slutty like that. 🤣
 
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