Can you be physically attracted to someone you've never even seen?

[Maddy McCall]

Poll question: Can you be physically attracted to someone you've never even seen?

I see what appears to be Lounge romances springing up from time to time. Just wondering if physical attraction plays any part of this. I guess physical attraction can be equated to "chemistry."

[RagingInMiami]

1. Is this a trick question?

[jeff30997]

2. Is this a proposal ?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Yes. I was physically attracted to Misunderestimator before we met

I still am too :D

[Misunderestimator]

29. Me too.

I mean to you :) :loveya:

[Khephra]

4. I fell in love with my last GF base only on her letters to a friend

Yep.

(I'm a man)

[RagingInMiami]

7. Yes,, but you weren't "physically" attracted to her

[Khephra]

10. True.

Damn that intellectual attraction!

[patdem]

18. kick up for Khephra

:kick:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

22. Kick

:kick:

[Skinner]

31. This was Kef's last post.

:(

[Misunderestimator]

34. OMG... How utterly heartbreaking...

:cry:

[Maddy McCall]

36. Kick

[NightTrain]

5. Oh god, yes!

It happened between me and a fellow DUer.

[Zomby Woof]

6. well, I've have met mine

I would say the mental attraction was very strong before meeting, and now the physical matches it, to say the very least. :evilgrin:

I know some of y'all love that ol' ick on a stick. ;-)

[nini]

17. the ick-on-a-stick patrol -- they know what they can do with that stick

'shove it' as Ms. Heinz-Kerry would say!

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[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

26. Are you properly armed with Mr. Yuck stickers?

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[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

30. Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

Sometimes I like to wear JUST the sash, it makes me feel all Miss America-y.

It was the closest I could find to ick on a stick :shrug:

[tjdee]

8. I predict the majority of women will say yes--because of the chemistry

thing.

For me, mental/physical attractiveness is all mixed up together. Can't do one without the other.

But--do you mean never seen in real life (we have the gallery here), or never seen at all?

[sam sarrha]

9. maybe if you are a teenager or are alone and have had a 3rd hour viagra

hard on

[jellybelly]

11. doesn't being physically attracted to someone mean

you have to see them?:crazy:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

21. Yes, I would think so. I'm a woman who voted no.

If you've you've never seen the person, it's only a mental/emotional attration. I've never been attracted in any way to anyone without seeing them and being able to talk with them in person first.

[SarahB]

12. Yes.

I have liked someone around here for quite awhile. We liked each other before we knew what the other looked like. Sometimes I think if we were ever to finally get ourselves together after all our vast indefinableness together and be more public, given a certain element of his reputation, people will think he's with me for superficial reasons only. That fact of the matter is our ability to understand one another was there first before he or anyone else on DU knew what I looked like (maybe a big part of why I like the man as much as I do). He is one built piece of man himself, although much more private. A strong physical attraction is simply a nice bonus to other things that attract people to each other.

[Amaya]

13. No, I'd have to meet him in the flesh first

I need eye contact.

[SKKY]

14. Physically attracted to someone you've never seen?

How is that possible?

[nini]

15. Being REAL attraction is made of many things. YES

I believe the mental connection is ultimately what makes attraction real. So yes, you can feel that way about someone before actually being face to face. Of course, the face to face thing is the last test but if you connect mentally it should all fall into place. When you break that hurdle -- IT'S ALL GOOD!! :bounce:

[bloom]

16. I expect blind people can be physically attracted to people

they haven't seen.

In the more or less the same way - I expect - I use my imagination.

[Placebo]

19. I was in love with Brian Molko before I ever saw him...

and then I saw him, and I was like...whoa...better than I imagined! :D

[Wapsie B]

20. Yes,

Even just chatting with someone online I can either feel an attraction or not. The online communication doesn't have to be sexual nature, at least not to start. The meeting face to face just seals the deal so to speak.

[Longgrain]

27. I've felt something very physical

while talking to several DU women, many who I've never seen...

(tho the one's I have seen ;) )

[neebob]

33. Yes, but it's just your own mental picture that you're attracted to

and it can be completely, horribly, tragically wrong. Don't ask how I know this.