My fiance and I were doing a little cleaning in his apartment this weekend, and I found a picture of him taken when he was an editor with the University newspaper. They were taking unusual pictures for the year end edition, and the picture of my SO is very sexy (lying in the grass on his side, with his shirt unbuttoned, and his jeans undone a little, looking all sultry at the camera - I know he was hamming it up, but whooee, does he look good! {insert tongue hanging out smilie here})
My question is about me drooling over this younger picture of him. I thought he was the sexiest, best-looking man I have ever seen when I met him a year ago, and I still think that, but I feel vaguely guilty about being so turned on by a picture of him taken when he was 10 years younger. Any thoughts on this? Or am I just borrowing trouble?
You’re just borrowing trouble.
Go get a digital camera, or a video camera, you get to pose him first, then he gets to pose you.
I guarantee you’ll end up with pictures that look hotter than his from 10 years ago.
Then you won’t have to worry about the guilt at all.
-Doug
Hm, that depends. If he’s, say, 20, then you’ve got issues. 
I’ve seen pictures of him at 10, and he was awful cute. 
But no, I’m not drooling over adolescent pictures; he’s about 24 or so in the picture. A nice, healthy, well-muscled, sexy 24… Oh, sorry, lost my train of thought there…
Gosh, Featherlou, I’m think I’m getting a contact turn-on!
Shirtless, well-muscled, whoo!
Anyway, why do you feel guilty? The photo is just one section of the continuum of your fiance’s life. He’s still the guy in the pic, just ten years more mature.
I think the vague sense of guilt is from not wanting my SO to think that I wish he looked younger/thinner/hotter or whatever. Does that make any sense?
Yeah, featherlou, I’m hearin’ ya. I think as long as you don’t obsess over the pic or forget to adore him in the here and now, you’re not in for any trouble. From your OP, you sound like you’re all sorts of balanced (e.g., “I thought he was the sexiest, best-looking man I have ever seen when I met him a year ago…”), and he shouldn’t get the wrong idea from your attraction to the body he was toting around 10 years ago.
I can totally relate, featherlou, I’ve seen pictures of my fiance, and she was a total knockout, very beautiful…not that she is’nt now, but I feel what you’re feeling…the pictures I saw of her were about ten years old. Oh, well, what are we going to do, huh? It’s not like I’m the strapping young buck I was once myself. sigh
I like dublos’s idea. Get your fiance to replicate the pose and take a new picture as much like the old one as possible. When you get it back, put them side by side, look at them, pick up the new one, and say, “Much better.” Then put the old one back in the album or the box or wherever you got it.
Just my .02 centavos…
Ahh, good idea. Come to think of it, we do have one of those cheap little computer cameras at home…
My first quick pass of this sentence read “the pictures I saw of her ten years old.” :eek: For one heart-stopping moment, I thought KKBattousai was predicting your post…
Whew!