Do we make friends with people we subconsciously find attractive?
I can remember back in high school when I finally met him. Scooby, as he is known, was the first male friend that I did not have a romantic interest in — and I was ecstatic. Of course, I was very much interested in his best friend at the time, but that is irrelevant, so I digress. I started thinking the other day about all the male friends I have in my life and how at one point or another I have found all of them attractive.
I have always been the type to make more male friends than female friends, and I could never understand why. Throughout my high school years, any male that I came in contact with I would automatically fall “in love” with. My hormones were erupting and I would envision him and me together – someday. But then Scooby came along. It was not because he was unattractive or boring; in fact he was and still is quite the opposite. His punk rock persona paired with his great body (he was a high school wrestler) did not have the slightest affect on me. To this day I don’t know what snapped in my brain, but I just was not interested in him.
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