My crushes are not based on looks alone. I find quite a few women on Fox News to be attractive, but I don't stop to watch for a few minutes for the others. As I think back on a few crushes that I've had with women I knew in real life, they were very attractive, but they weren't really more physically attractive than other women who didn't attract me as much.
2. Do you think most crushes would have their butt kicked by reality? IE, someone actually meets Orlando Bloom or Halle Berry or whomever, and they’re like “well, no, I didn’t REALLY want to make out with you, just a hug and an autograph, thanks. (For example, I remember reading a story about some flight attendant who was on-the-spot attracted to Ralph Feinnes, and had sex with him in the airline bathroom right then. Was she loose, obviously. Did his movie reputation precede him in that case, probably. But still, that could be viewed as the result of a crush, and how some people would do anything.)
As I define crushes, the object is not to make out immediately. When I've had a crush, my first thought on meeting the person would be to have a good conversation. I agree that many, maybe most, crushes would falter when we found that we really didn't like the person's real personality. For public people, we'd learn that the public persona doesn't match the real person. For people we know slightly in real life but have built up in our minds, the fantasy may not match the reality. On the other hand, when we develop little crushes on people we know, the reality is already the driving force.
3. What would you do if you actually felt genuine attraction to someone who is famous, and consequently, impossible to contact?
I still have a hard time seeing how I could be the best catch for a woman who had achieved some measure of fame and wealth. As a result, I am less motivated to contact that kind of lady. I'm not sure what I'd do if I really believed that I was "the one" for someone like that.
Bill