{"id":9748,"date":"2015-04-13T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9748"},"modified":"2015-04-13T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T13:17:31","slug":"what-is-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9748","title":{"rendered":"What is sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sexy is an individual thing, clearly. &nbsp;I&#8217;m not talking about things that are overtly sexual, although having a man&#8217;s tongue in my mouth for the first time, or that first touch of skin on skin is incredibly sexy. &nbsp;I&#8217;m talking about the stuff that is sensual, but not necessarily sexual. &nbsp;Maybe weird things.<\/p>\n<p>Like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I have spent time in close proximity to a man, and I can still smell him in my hair and on my skin when I get home. &nbsp;Assuming that I like the smell&#8230;wow&#8230;.consider me melting into a puddle of goo. Seriously. It doesn&#8217;t happen very often, maybe because most obvious cologne\/aftershave makes me sneezy. When I do love the way someone smells, it makes me not want to shower until I see him again, which obviously could result in HIS not wanting to see ME again if more than a day goes by. So I shower with some regret.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I look at him, and he&#8217;s looking at me intently, a little serious&#8230;trying to really see me, and not just looking <i>at<\/i> me. Not staring, not checking out my boobs, but really wanting to see who I am.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When he reaches over to brush my hair out of my eyes while we&#8217;re talking. Kissing. Whatever. I require a lot of that if someone ever wants to see my right eye. It&#8217;s a very tender gesture. Gets me every time.<\/p>\n<p>But the main thing?<\/p>\n<p>A big brain coupled with humor and&#8230;just a little weirdness. A lot of weirdness. Again with the melting into a puddle of goo. Men who are smarter than I am without being dull? Men who maybe point up at the night sky and show me the ecliptic and how to tell a planet from a star? Even if it&#8217;s partly an excuse to stand really close to me? Well. Commence swooning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Side note: &nbsp;due to a carpal tunnel flare, my writing is going to be a bit infrequent. It&#8217;s just not getting any better while I keep typing all day at work and then keep doing it for hours at home. If my behavior becomes erratic, I apologize in advance. I should probably say &#8220;more erratic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexy is an individual thing, clearly. &nbsp;I&#8217;m not talking about things that are overtly sexual, although having a man&#8217;s tongue in my mouth for the first time, or that first touch of skin on skin is incredibly sexy. &nbsp;I&#8217;m talking about the stuff that is sensual, but not necessarily sexual. &nbsp;Maybe weird things. Like&#8230; When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is sexy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2xe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9959,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9959","url_meta":{"origin":9748,"position":0},"title":"Kissing as drapery","author":"Michelle","date":"May 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It's easy to get enveloped. 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