The Imperfect Body

[sistermagpie]

I watched the first episode of the US "How to Look Good Naked" and it made me all happy inside--yay for the girl to figure out she's pretty! There was only one moment that annoyed me because it referenced my pet peeve. When they put the girl's body on the side of a building and asked passersby what they thought of it most people complimented her,

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[jlh]

One of the things I like about writing fiction is the ability to eroticize real bodies, and their imperfections, as I find it is often imperfections that you eroticize, yourself, when you're thinking about a person you're attracted to. So like, Seamus has a wee tummy, or Ginny has big hips and a very round ass (she's very pear-shaped) or even easier, Simon's hairy barrel-chest and Ryan's blondish twinkness. If you can put an erotic charge on the imperfect body the entire thing becomes that much hotter, because who cares about perfect people having perfect sex and rock hard abs and all that? Who can keep up?

Though for what it's worth, I like Hugh Laurie's stubble. Brings out his eyes, just like Ryan's does.

[sistermagpie]

as I find it is often imperfections that you eroticize, yourself, when you're thinking about a person you're attracted to.

Exactly--I think there's an intimacy in the imperfections as well. You're "claiming" the person by the things that make them an individual. Even if the guy worked out a lot and was muscular, for instance, you'd probably look more for ways he was muscular specific to himself.

I like Hugh Laurie's stubble too--it certainly changes his face correctly from Bertie Wooster to House! But I like that it's stubble that looks like it comes from somebody not caring to shave often--just as his blue eyes can often also look like they've got shadows under them or are bloodshot. It doesn't look like calculated stubble. The leg is also a good example, the way you know that it's very scarred etc. It's funny because perfect sense between the perfect bodies always comes across as so sterile. It's like the opposite of hot.

[vixen_notatramp]

So incredibly not about this entry, but:

I thought I was the only one on the planet who thinks Simon and Ryan are hot like really hot things. I have a massive crushes on the both of them. -sighs rapturously-

[sistermagpie]

Oh, you must check out jlh's fic if you like Simon and Ryan being very hot and...doing things...together.:-D

[vixen_notatramp]

...I think I just died of happiness and orgasmed at the same time.

OH, INTERNETS, JUST WHEN I THINK ALL YOU ARE GOOD FOR IS REMINDING ME THAT NO MATTER HOW CRAZY I GET, THERE ARE ALWAYS PEOPLE WAY MORE BUGFUCK OUT THERE FOR ME TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO, SOME KIND STRANGER TELLS ME OF SIMON/RYAN FIC.

The world is now a lovely place. And though I should do homework, and not dedicate the night to excessive Ryan/Simon fangirling... really, who needs to pass math anyway? NOT I, SAID THE... NOT-SO-LITTLE-OR-RED SARAH.

...Somehow that works less well when you are, in fact, not little, red, or a hen. Good to know.