“The things that make babies are so ugly that, were it not for pretty faces, the human race would die out.”
– Leonardo da Vinci (either gay or asexual)
I am not gay or asexual or in any way sex-negative, I just think it’s an interesting fact. Applies to both sexes’ goodies. You’ve got more-or-less smooth skin everywhere else, and then you’ve got these weird crinkly-wrinkly things. Even the anus is more esthetically pleasing, neater. Many people do like looking at them, often for spells of 5 minutes to half an hour, and poets write poems to their beauty sometimes, but that’s because they associate them with a wonderful thing like sex; no asexual esthete would call them beautiful on their own account. I guess it’s just an inevitable design feature, they wouldn’t perform their function if they were pretty.
I don’t think this is in any way universal, but I agree. Penises are, at the very best, funny looking. The whole vulvas/vaginal opening/labia region look like a Lovecraftian monstrosity. I don’t find it particularly pleasant to look at either, even when I’m, er… “in the mood”. I’m not asexual, it’s just that when it comes to sexual endeavors the genitals are about the last thing I want to look at. The best I can say about them is that they kind of look interesting from an artistic and scientific perspective, but that’s damning with faint praise.
No, I’m sexually attracted to women, but genitals – male or female – kind of squick me. I actually fast forward through the closeups of genitals in porn because it’s kind of a turnoff. Call it an anti-fetish I guess.
Yeah, if you think about it just from an aesthetic point of view, genitals are not attractive, but for many of us the pleasant associations can make them seem so. The same way a bowl of spaghetti in marinara actually looks pretty horrific stripped of its delicious context. Sort of a worms-in-blood or bowl-of-viscera look.
I have to agree. I hang out with nudists. Human genitals are weird and slightly off putting. Plants definitely hit the lottery in the beautiful genitals division. Well, many of them. This one’s nearly as weird as a penis: Amorphophallus titanum - Wikipedia
I agree. A guy I knew used to ask me to take pics of myself and send them. It was the most hideous thing I had ever snapped a photo of and it killed me to send it.
They are not created equal. While I try to pretend scrotums aren’t there and I prefer neatly groomed pubes, plenty of penises are quite aesthetically pleasing. Same with vulvas. I find mine to be more photogenic than the rest of me.
