What is so great about this picture?
“This is so sexy, precisely because it’s Marilyn reading James Joyce’s Ulysses. She doesn’t have to pose, we don’t even need to see her face, what comes off the photo is absolute concentration, and nothing is sexier than absolute concentration..."-Jeanette Winterson
via Ordinary Finds via Solitary Pleasures
Does the knowledge that she is reading Ulysses make any difference to you?
But about the attractiveness of a concentrated look, I know it. It has something to do with the fact that the person who is concentrating has her whole being in one place, and you are shut out of it, and you would like her to have you with the same kind of intent absorption.
A question by -O-uknow:
Does a concentrated look in the eyes, focused but distant and a slight upward curvature of the mouth almost always signals arousal?
Phillis - Zacks little sister answers:
Sure, it could be arousal, but it may not be sexual arousal. A baseball fanatic could be thinking about last year's stats of his favorite player. No kidding - that happened to me once! 4 years later, I had my first child with the man.
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