So for a man to admire her beauty, even on the very scant hope that someday he might become her suitor, would be acceptable. Though not if he was a real creeper about it, that is, if he was so driven by lust that he acted in a beastly manner.
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What a sick mind. .....Men and women don’t look at and admire people of the opposite sex, whether in person or in film or print media, with the “hope” of becoming that person’s suitor. Their admiration of a person of the opposite sex does not indicate a ‘lusting’, as you put it, but just an appreciation of the beauty/handsomeness of someone.
I become more disappointed everytime I click on a FR headline and surprisingly find myself on the Religion forum, where so many comments displaying such bias explains why I opted out of organized religion at age 14; 57 years ago. I prefer my own beliefs in God to brainwashing.
“What a sick mind. .....Men and women don’t look at and admire people of the opposite sex, whether in person or in film or print media, with the “hope” of becoming that person’s suitor.”
That’s a really bizarre statement. So, hundreds of thousands of celebrity fans *don’t* wish that they could be married to those (attractive) celebrities? That they would not go to great lengths to meet them, with the idea that they might be seen as special enough to care about by the celebrity?
I beg to differ. There are even frequent celebrity stories about who are the “most eligible bachelors”.
“Their admiration of a person of the opposite sex does not indicate a ‘lusting’, as you put it, but just an appreciation of the beauty/handsomeness of someone.”
I thought I was pretty clear that people might wish or fantasize about having a relationship with no problem. In fact, it is necessary for procreation; but that a small minority become obsessive and weird about it. That seems to be a better description of the contrast between attraction and lust.