Do you have a strange love?

I used to have the biggest crush on this girl, she was from south africa, sexiest accent, and she kicked my ass at sports (mind you, I play two sports for a DI school), I’m a real competitive guy most times, so when anyone beats me at something it usually drives me batty, but it just made her more attractive to me.

granted comparative to others, this isn’t weird, but based on my normal trend, it was the only time I ever felt that way.

Yes. My name is Bond… James Bond.

@DarkScribe Damn you for taking my answer.

EDIT: Wait, no you didn’t. I was thinking of Kubrick. Stop it.

I’ve always had the “savior (READ: Rubik’s) complex.” Totally attracted to hopeless individuals.

@Grisaille: Me, too. I love “damaged” people. I can’t seem to fix me so I try to fix them instead. If they want.

Exactly.

* passes gin *

I’m with @MacBean. I used to fall for the guys who had a lot of issues. I always thought I’d be the one who could help them. Never worked. I gave up on it.

She is a bit strange now that I think about it.

@Grisaille After reading this I seem to like strange people ;)

Besides that I tend to like people who have quirks to them, interesting is always better than average.

Many years ago, I had a girlfriend. She was a horrible person, a cheater, and a user. When we split, I told her to stay the hell out of my life. Earlier this year, I opened a Facebook account, and less than two weeks later, I got a note of apology from her. She had been looking for me for quite some time. A few months later, we met at an event, and were immediately re-attracted. She was married, but was ready to leave him.

Anyway, she’s aging, has a number of tatoos (which I don’t care for), smokes, lives a lifestyle in which I have no interest, I have a bad history with her, and the list goes on. However, she does have a nice figure, and is good in bed. We’ve had sex a number of times since reuniting, and she has left her husband (not for or because of me). She is nothing that I would normally go for, but I am highly attracted to her for some reason. Strange.

Oh! Also! ...Jugglers. I find the ability to juggle a turn-on.

@MacBean I only know how to juggle scarves and plastic bags lol

Ballerinas. Actually, any professional dancer. But I don’t think that’s particularly strange.

Right now I’m pretty into a Jew who lives 6 states away and enjoys cross dressing occasionally. Not what I had in mind for potential boyfriend material several months ago :p

I have no idea why, but I have always been heavily attracted to Jews. For seemingly no reason…and even now that I’m thinking about it I can’t come up with a reason.

Although I am attracted to (some) of the conventionally attractive actors out there, in RL, for the most part, I am attracted not to the “hot guys” ( or whatever you want to call them) but instead am attracted to personalities, unusual or pretty eyes and a great smile/sense of humor. I like people who are into weird things (bagpiper, for instance) and often like the “odd duck” of any crowd. Then again, I am an odd duck as well, so it could be a “like attracts like” thing.

Oh, and if a guy has a bad smell (Axe, BO or anything in between) that turns me off immediately. Guy has to smell nice or like nothing at all (clean). (That’s weird, right?)

And of course, I believe that if the right person came along, gender wouldn’t bother me. So, yeah. Definitely an odd duck with strange loves. :D

@evegrimm: I like less conventionally attractive people, too. Odd noses, lopsided smiles, eyes that aren’t quite symmetrical… “Perfect” is boring. I like having something interesting to look at. Though I do appreciate “perfection” in a strictly aesthetic sense. It just doesn’t draw me to people as people, only as things to look at.

Well, glad to know I’m not the only odd duck out there. I collect odd friends, because as @IBERnineD said, interesting is always better than average.

@MacBean, I can’t juggle, but my ears are crooked and my sense of humor is truly warped.~

The older one gets the more one learns the fragility and the inuitility of normative standards of beauty. I am in love with my fiancee because of her accomplishments, her companionability, her ability to empathize, her native intelligence, her wit, her emotional availability, her good nature, and her native inclination to behave decently.

Now I’m going to have to listen to this song to get it out of my head.

@deni My mom has always had a huge thing for rabbis

My friends think I do. They were always amazed at some of the women I went out with, then would turn around months later saying I was right, and saw something they didn’t.

@evelyns_pet_zebra I totally have an ear fetish…

I am really big on good eyebrows, jawlines, and noses. I think that makes me the strange one…

@IBERnineD OHH i agree with all three of those. Eyebrows are the first thing I notice about people. Very important.

My 9th grade English teacher.
She was not a beautiful woman.

But I could just tell she was naughty.

@evegrimm It’s weird, but I have a friend who is Jewish and occasionally cross-dresses… but he’s married, and his wife is just as offbeat as he is. They make a really cute couple.

@deni Oh man I adore eyebrows, I don’t believe I have been attracted to a guy with lousey eyebrows.

Or maybe they’re not even real… like Peter Pan.

@IBERnineD hahaha me either i would not stand for that

Do farm animals count?~

@Bluefreedom The asker said “strange love”. What’s so strange about farm animals?~

@ru2bz46. Nice. =)

I once dated a guy who was a Sasquatch hunter. Well, I didn’t know he had this predilection when I met him. It wasn’t exactly dinner table or cocktail conversation. My mom met him and said, “Honey…he’s very nice….but not for you….” I didn’t believe her. He then left me for a woman who looked like Sasquatch.

There you go. Mom is always right.

all my loves are like that.