Infatuation and sexual desires

[NormannTheDoorman]

Most people I know are into the really short relationships with a "hot" girl.

Is infatuation just a form of sexual desire? To me it seems like it, though I would like to hear what others think of infatuation.

 

[Hadoblado]

I became infatuated with a worker in the porn industry the other day. It has nothing to do with her personality.

 

[BigApplePi]

Infatuation must be a strong desire to be involved with someone. It just so happens sex is a strong desire so odds favor sexual involvement but it doesn't have to be. If one would like to be somewhere and finds a potential mentor, that could drive an infatuation which is non-sexual. Actually sex could get in the way in this case.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Hell, romantic love is a "form of" sexual desire. Sure, infatuation is, too.

 

[JASSY]

I believe infatuation is misleading . It could be a mixture of sexual desire, someone appealing to my Fe , etc . I tend to supress it as long as possible till Ti tells me its okay !

 

[Nezaros]

I don't believe I've ever experienced "love at first sight", though I've had pretty close to that. Speaking only for myself, infatuation seems to consist of physical attraction followed by just enough emotional attraction to create a strong, largely unjustified attachment. This has only happened with people I didn't know very well and stronger (or perhaps just more obsessive) than anything I've experienced with an actual girlfriend. So whether it only involves certain levels of attractiveness or is purely circumstantial I couldn't say.

 

[joal0503]

the state of being carried away by unreasoned passion or love

infatuation feels like a misnomer. how can you have differentiate reasonable from unreasonable passion? Id guess most peoples's passion seems to stem from sexual reasons. more appropriate to call it, "the i want to really bone that person feeling"

 

[JASSY]

infatuation feels like a misnomer. how can you have differentiate reasonable from unreasonable passion? Id guess most peoples's passion seems to stem from sexual reasons. more appropriate to call it, "the i want to really bone that person feeling"

Do you think it should be limited to "the I want to really bone that person feeling"? Can't you be infatuated with someone you admire of the same sex or a potential mentor ?

 

[Nezaros]

Do you think it should be limited to "the I want to really bone that person feeling"? Can't you be infatuated with someone you admire of the same sex or a potential mentor ?

For me at least, it's been less the "I really want to bone them" feeling and more "I find this person sexually attractive but I also really really like them despite knowing next to nothing about their actual personality, just enough to maintain the belief that I may be in love with them." But I've never felt any attraction, sexual or otherwise (more than the bonds of friendship, such as they are for me) towards anybody of my own gender.

 

[MissQuote]

Limmerence

 

[joal0503]

Do you think it should be limited to "the I want to really bone that person feeling"? Can't you be infatuated with someone you admire of the same sex or a potential mentor ?

To me that falls under a different category. infatuation seems to be rooted in sexual desire (i know this is subjective). If its 'infatuation' with somebody for other reasons, yes its technically a form of infatuation no doubt, id just be more likely to call it idolization, admiration, bromance, etc.

 

[pjoa09]

I think it's your brain telling itself that you could possibly have sex with an attractive individual and make children.

So you try and fail or succeed.