I find that I’ve become more attracted to uncon­ven­tional beauty lately. Well, that’s not to say that my past propen­si­ties have been com­pletely tra­di­tional. Aaron thinks that my whole speech imped­i­ment thing is just me try­ing to be a unique per­son. I’m not really insulted by this (even though I’d nor­mally be, espe­cially since I have a great respect for Aaron’s opin­ions) sim­ply because I think that if he had any…inter­est­ing tastes, he’d understand.

I once had a dis­cus­sion with Trolley about the fact that almost any type of fetish made sense to me — hair, loli­con, necrophilia, rape, scat­ol­ogy, plucked chick­ens — except for foot fetishes. I mean, most of these all have very deep-rooted psy­cho­log­i­cal jus­ti­fi­ca­tions. Sex with ani­mals, for exam­ple, may turn some­one on due to feel­ings of dom­i­nance over an ani­mal, or a belief that they are mak­ing some­thing feel bliss­ful plea­sure (per­haps as a com­pen­sa­tion for inse­cu­rity in being able to plea­sure some­one). Most any sort of fan­tasy can be rel­a­tively eas­ily justified.

Aaron and I were even able to find a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for bad teeth fetishes, which is an inter­est­ing idea since I know so many peo­ple who can’t stand crooked teeth. He knows peo­ple who only date oth­ers who are “less attrac­tive” than them, and we take this as a sign that these peo­ple may be inse­cure about their looks, and are turned on when viewed as the more attrac­tive per­son in the cou­ple. Of course, this can be related to any sort of “flaw” that may be found in someone.

I once knew a girl who was turned on by guys using cal­cu­la­tors, and I can eas­ily relate this to my “girls wear­ing glasses” pro­cliv­ity, inso­far as being extremely attracted to intel­li­gence, both being a sort of phys­i­cal (albeit pos­si­bly soci­etal) man­i­fes­ta­tion of an intan­gi­ble thing.

Feet, how­ever, I can only jus­tify when related to the tribal tra­di­tion of feet-forehead touch­ing. Subordination is rep­re­sented in the younger peo­ple touch­ing the feet of the elders with their fore­heads. Perhaps some­one may be attracted to the fact that they are brought to the level of the toe suck­ing, sim­i­lar to the idea of dom­i­nance. It’s hard for me to even see foot fetishes on a basic phys­i­cal level, which is eas­ily done for breasts or waists, etc. unless one con­sid­ers the impact of soci­ety on what peo­ple find attractive.

I can just see all the hits I’m going to get from inter­est­ing search strings now.

Most of my propen­si­ties can be eas­ily explained, although I get var­i­ous odd reac­tions when peo­ple find out, and most are either laugh­ing too hard or too weirded out to allow an expla­na­tion. Speech imped­i­ments are some­thing I just can’t seem to jus­tify, although such an inef­fa­ble thing has allowed me to more eas­ily accept the quirks of other peo­ples tastes.

So there’s this girl who works at Folio and she wears glasses and turtle­necks and is there when­ever I buy some­thing and I doubt other guys would find her as attrac­tive as I do.