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Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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I love it when people mumble or mispronounce it and make people sexual. :p

"Oh, she's very sexual."

"Reeeeeeeaaaaaallllllllllyyy. :D"

I'm so sensual it drips off me like an oily rag.

I just found that sentence funny's all.

Perhaps some people feel that there are degrees of sensuality; that there is no binary cut-off between a-sensual and sensual. Thus, they use adjectives such as "very" to describe the magnitude of this characteristic.

I'm so sensual it drips off me like an oily rag.

I just found that sentence funny's all.

Ew! Haha

Perhaps some people feel that there are degrees of sensuality; that there is no binary cut-off between a-sensual and sensual. Thus, they use adjectives such as "very" to describe the magnitude of this characteristic.

Like what, they go into a trance when accidentally brushing up against velour?

Well, I say I am a visual person.

This means that if someone asks me something like "how do you spell prophecy" I look up at the ceiling and imagine it being written out there before I can tell them. If you ask me where something is in a book I've read, I can tell you pretty much the page and where it's oriented on the page. If you ask me how to get somewhere I visualize the map in my head before explaining.

I would imagine a sensual person means someone who is very much oriented towards physical sensation.... the feel of velvet on skin, the heat of a body millimeters away, the smell of someone's hair.

According to the standard judeochristian morality, sexual sensuality should be represssed. Some people are more comfortable with their sensuality than others, and we are currently in a social cycle that is more accepting of this. /shrug

Hahaha!

Edit: oh no, I was responding to smunkee's post...no wonder it didn't quote, cause it got deleted!

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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This from the woman crowned--deservedly, mind--as the sexiest female NSGer of 2007. :p

Katgani: Ayeaye...me too...the visual thing, though I am also sensual when it comes to touch in a lesser sense.

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So...I'm a full video man?

Katgani: Ayeaye...me too...the visual thing, though I am also sensual when it comes to touch in a lesser sense.

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So...I'm a full video man?


LOL Kyronea... in SENSAROUND! :D

I don't think most people who describe themselves as "sensual" are even certain what they're trying to say. I've only heard it a few times, but it's usually just a substitute for "sensitive." It's an interchangable buzzword to some people, that's all.

LOL Kyronea... in SENSAROUND! :D

Much better than Smell-o-vision.

Hahaha!

Edit: oh no, I was responding to smunkee's post...no wonder it didn't quote, cause it got deleted!

I decided it was in poor taste and also maybe Kat is right

I am a very visual person.......sensory not so much, however my kid (one of them) is a very sensory learner, so unless she can "feel" what she is learning there is no getting it through her head. She has to have the right clothes on, the right pencil, the right paper, once I had to buy her a new notebook because the one I bought "didn't smell right". She has to try on clothes, I can't just buy them, the seams might be in the wrong place or the pants might touch her ankles or her socks might not feel right on her toes.........she is very weird. Although I totally get it now, due to my last accidental glutening and being sensory overloaded for 4 days.........OMG! seams are evil.

I decided it was in poor taste
I LOLed too.

and also maybe Kat is right
;) has to happen sometimes.

I am a very visual person.......sensory not so much, however my kid (one of them) is a very sensory learner, so unless she can "feel" what she is learning there is no getting it through her head. She has to have the right clothes on, the right pencil, the right paper, once I had to buy her a new notebook because the one I bought "didn't smell right". She has to try on clothes, I can't just buy them, the seams might be in the wrong place or the pants might touch her ankles or her socks might not feel right on her toes.........she is very weird. Although I totally get it now, due to my last accidental glutening and being sensory overloaded for 4 days.........OMG! seams are evil.

Eek! I can't even imagine being that hypersensitive to the point of it being annoying/painful.

Eek! I can't even imagine being that hypersensitive to the point of it being annoying/painful.
her doctor said for a long time that she was "being difficult" and to just do what I wanted, but after that 4 days, I think the doctor is full of shit and if my kid wants a pencil that's unpainted and a notebook without wires, I am buying it.

You know I almost shaved my head that week because my hair moved and it annoyed me?!

This from the woman crowned--deservedly, mind--as the sexiest female NSGer of 2007. :p

Katgani: Ayeaye...me too...the visual thing, though I am also sensual when it comes to touch in a lesser sense.

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So...I'm a full video man?

Hey, I can be sexy without having to describe myself as a sexual or sensual person. In fact, if you ever hear me say that, smother me with a pillow like in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. You'd be doing me some good.

I decided it was in poor taste and also maybe Kat is right

I am a very visual person.......sensory not so much, however my kid (one of them) is a very sensory learner, so unless she can "feel" what she is learning there is no getting it through her head. She has to have the right clothes on, the right pencil, the right paper, once I had to buy her a new notebook because the one I bought "didn't smell right". She has to try on clothes, I can't just buy them, the seams might be in the wrong place or the pants might touch her ankles or her socks might not feel right on her toes.........she is very weird. Although I totally get it now, due to my last accidental glutening and being sensory overloaded for 4 days.........OMG! seams are evil.

I really hope my daughter never turns out like that.

her doctor said for a long time that she was "being difficult" and to just do what I wanted, but after that 4 days, I think the doctor is full of shit and if my kid wants a pencil that's unpainted and a notebook without wires, I am buying it.

You know I almost shaved my head that week because my hair moved and it annoyed me?!

Wow, I'm glad that usually we acclimate to sensory stimulation so we won't have to deal with that.

I really hope my daughter never turns out like that.

do you have good genes?

because mine suck.

it's possibly related to our disease, I am still trying to scope out if she is getting gluten anywhere, and debating whether or not to quit letting her have artificial dyes.

it could be mental illness, since I have OCD, maybe she has it too

it could be that she is just a weird kid, and needs time to overcome her quirks

it could be that she is just better at noticing things than the rest of us

no matter which one of those it is......I continue to try to keep her comfortable.

And that's the important thing. You're a good mother, Smunkee.

<3

Btw smunkee, find my advice thread and post a picture of the purse and shoes you were talking about. Unless you were joking. ;)

do you have good genes?
Well, so far all of my siblings are extremely intelligent and use their gifts as they come. Me, I don't so much, but that's due to inherent laziness and not a lack of ability.

because mine suck.

Bull.



no matter which one of those it is......I continue to try to keep her comfortable.

And that's the important thing. You're a good mother, Smunkee.

Well, so far all of my siblings are extremely intelligent and use their gifts as they come. Me, I don't so much, but that's due to inherent laziness and not a lack of ability.
most of the really intelligent people are underachievers, ever thought that you are smarter than them?

Bull.
no, it's really true, when it comes to diseases passed down through genetics my family has a ton of them........my kids already got the uber bad one from me.....



And that's the important thing. You're a good mother, Smunkee.
I hope so. I am saving every time someone tells me that so when the kids end up in therapy I can send them to the doctor in my defense. ;)

<3

Btw smunkee, find my advice thread and post a picture of the purse and shoes you were talking about. Unless you were joking. ;)

I was trying to see if you had esp or something.

apparently I Know the answer (hey! maybe I am psychic!)

I was trying to see if you had esp or something.

apparently I Know the answer (hey! maybe I am psychic!)

Hm. :confused:

Hm. :confused:

if you had esp then you would know which shoes and purse since I was like concentrating on them.......or something


I don't know.

most of the really intelligent people are underachievers, ever thought that you are smarter than them?

Maybe...maybe not. I refuse to actually answer that question since each of our interests lay in different areas. As such, even if I were smarter than them, it would be only in one field, while they are smarter than me in others. My little brother, for instance, is a freaking math genius.

While I...while I spend too much time moping and generally allowing my emotions to cloud my judgement to be able to truly understand my own intelligence. I am my own worst enemy.

no, it's really true, when it comes to diseases passed down through genetics my family has a ton of them........my kids already got the uber bad one from me.....
Well...err...that's what you get for living in Oklahoma? [/horrible joke]



I hope so. I am saving every time someone tells me that so when the kids end up in therapy I can send them to the doctor in my defense. ;)

A good idea, that. All parents should do that.

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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i am trying to understand,in all seriousnes,i consider myself very loving and sensual,as in i like to be cuddled and cuddle,i like sex as well.
most girls dont like me because i am too sensitive..is that waht your talking about?
if it is then i understand,or are you saying your asexual?
i think most people need a deeper connection and find it with another like minded soul,but if i am wrong in my assumption i will bow out gracefully.

edit:
i will add that i think certain people exude an air of sexuality...or our by there nature,very sensual,it bothers me as well,but i cant comment on that..i wish i was viewed as a sensual person(though i am) but it never gets past appearance usually,and thats the rub aint it,people cue on appearance(as shallow as it is)but miss what is in front of them in reality.
some people are just magnets and others are not...life i guess.

*snip*

Totally off topic but how did your court appearance go - clearly not in jail.

For the purpose of the OP, describe the experience sensually

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

People actually say that sort of thing? How bizarre.

You sensitive? BS. I picture you as a potential asshole. You are the most prime to asshole'ishnes when you are given leniency, understanding or compassion. You only respect what doesn't respect you. Any one that likes you, you simply knock off as unworthy because you know if they can like you, or relate to you .. they obviously aren't worth a shit.. and definatly not of beneficial value. You are a leach upon yourself.

Oh, I'm sorry did I not specify who this was aimed at? Secret aj man.

I'm going to regret being so mean when I sober up.

Well, I see 'sensual' as a sort of category not everyone wants to go around claiming. Like a woman in a black silk cocktail dress, who enjoys slipping off her underwear in a fancy restaurant. Or a man who loves to go to clubs just to feel the press of bodies around him. Someone who is down with anonymous touching, and mixing food with sex. That sort of thing. Kink.

I think 'sensual' is a fine description. Hedonistic. The polar opposite of 'intellectual', though in no way negating the intelligence of the person in question.

I don't think most people who describe themselves as "sensual" are even certain what they're trying to say. I've only heard it a few times, but it's usually just a substitute for "sensitive." It's an interchangable buzzword to some people, that's all.

Sensual and sensitive have nothing to do with one another, in any sense that I've seen those words used.

I think this is mostly people who are trying to say "sensuous" but who don't know how to use words.

I decided it was in poor taste and also maybe Kat is right

I am a very visual person.......sensory not so much, however my kid (one of them) is a very sensory learner, so unless she can "feel" what she is learning there is no getting it through her head. She has to have the right clothes on, the right pencil, the right paper, once I had to buy her a new notebook because the one I bought "didn't smell right". She has to try on clothes, I can't just buy them, the seams might be in the wrong place or the pants might touch her ankles or her socks might not feel right on her toes.........she is very weird. Although I totally get it now, due to my last accidental glutening and being sensory overloaded for 4 days.........OMG! seams are evil.

I hate it when people discount these things...I've seem similar behaviour with kids with FASD, or Aspbergers. It is REAL for them, and it needs to be taken into account. No, they can't just 'ignore it' when the tag on their shirt feels like a thumbtack, and the smell of an eraser is so cloying it gags you.

One of my girls was very sensitive to clothing for a while...she seems to have grown out of it. She couldn't wear anything with cotton, if you can believe it. Only synthetic fibres. She KNEW the second you put anything with cotton on her.

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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Well you wouldn't hear them say it. They're mostly sufferers of extreme forms of schizophrenia. But putting them aside...

I don't think that's the point of declaring oneself to be a sensual person.

Sure you're going to get a lot of people who think it means "I'm sexy, but not a perv." The same way you get a lot of people who think that "ironic" means "noteworthy." And in that sense, I agree with you. People generally need to be more precise in their use of language. But...

Sensual can also mean the relative importance that they place on experiences. Yes we all receive information through the senses, but that's not the same as placing the emphasis of ones life on that sense data for its own sake.

Many people enjoy skydiving, but it would be a bit of a stretch to say that they enjoy it in a sensual fashion. You'd get the same sensual experience of a nice view and a strong wind in your face if you drove those winding mountain roads in southern California. Thrill seekers seek an emotional experience rather than a sensual one.

A social person enjoys going to a bar to chat with people in a relaxed atmosphere. A sensual person goes there to flirt, feel tipsy, and perhaps cop a feel, and get felt up. If the patrons are ugly, the drinks bland, and the decor gauche, the social person may still enjoy the evening. The sensual person will not.

To say it is stupid to call yourself sensual because we all receive data through the senses is like saying it's stupid to call yourself hairy because all mammals except some adult whales have hair.

I like sensuous... I told my wife the other night, "sensuous up, get me a beer!"
:p

I to am visual. I have to see it. which makes sticking me on the phones for Tech Support... a challange for me. :p


as for Children... I say to you what I was told by my parents when I worried as to what kind of parent I would become if or when I have children of my own. "Just do your best. That's all you really can do. the worrying, the second guessing, even the doubts are all par for the job. Just do your best."

Like what, they go into a trance when accidentally brushing up against velour?

Something like that.

Have you ever been to a wine tasting?

Not everyone who holds the glass up to the light and takes a big sniff before drinking is a pretentious twit. Some of them actually know what characteristics they're looking for. And on top of that, some of them actually enjoy the sight of light "playing" on the surfaces of the glass and the wine. And they enjoy the bouquet and feel that it enhances the taste when they finally drink some of it. Such a person is clearly more sensual than a person whose only criteria for judging wine is whether or not it will prompt "whiskey face," that puckered wince people get from tasting strong liquor.

I decided it was in poor taste and also maybe Kat is right

I am a very visual person.......sensory not so much, however my kid (one of them) is a very sensory learner, so unless she can "feel" what she is learning there is no getting it through her head. She has to have the right clothes on, the right pencil, the right paper, once I had to buy her a new notebook because the one I bought "didn't smell right". She has to try on clothes, I can't just buy them, the seams might be in the wrong place or the pants might touch her ankles or her socks might not feel right on her toes.........she is very weird. Although I totally get it now, due to my last accidental glutening and being sensory overloaded for 4 days.........OMG! seams are evil.

She's either going to be a genius or a nut. All factors will play in to that.

I find this thread to be very sensual.

You know I almost shaved my head that week because my hair moved and it annoyed me?!

A head full of stubble won't be any less annoying. Especially when you go to bed and your scalp keeps snagging on the pillow. If it happens again, I suggest you just wet your hair and see if you can get it into a bun without uneven tightness.

Totally off topic but how did your court appearance go - clearly not in jail.

For the purpose of the OP, describe the experience sensually

well they aint got computers for us prospective inmates,so yes your correct.

ok when the judge said you are free to go..i got weak in the knees..lol

You sensitive? BS. I picture you as a potential asshole. You are the most prime to asshole'ishnes when you are given leniency, understanding or compassion. You only respect what doesn't respect you. Any one that likes you, you simply knock off as unworthy because you know if they can like you, or relate to you .. they obviously aren't worth a shit.. and definatly not of beneficial value. You are a leach upon yourself.

Oh, I'm sorry did I not specify who this was aimed at? Secret aj man.

I'm going to regret being so mean when I sober up.

wow..but no problem,i get mean when i am drunk as well..well i dont get mean,i just get rough in how i say it.
actually i dont get mean,i just get dumb and rant..but thats me..your not me,but thats cool if your mad at me,i probably pisseds you off...no problem,i deserve it no doubt.

peace my friend

I find this thread to be very sensual.

i am about to hug myself and give myself a kiss....and then dream how i could have been decent if for not....just kidding,i am a cut up,but seriously,alot of people feel rejected by life,i do,but we are not,we are rejected by ourselves....and i am trying to deal with it...hell ask me about my son that was homeless and would not tell me.this kills me..i am his father and he wont admit he is having trouble so he wont let me down..wtf..i would die for my kid and he hides that he is homeless,i am confused and upset.

I wouldn't say I'm sensual, I often find I'm quite uncomfortable when too close to others, but if its certain people the closeness and touch can be very nice.

I more visual and audio-based. I spell words similarly to Kat, and am always constructing maps in my head as I travel around a new place. I find I can remember music quite easily, anything up to symphony movements of 15 minutes, and often am 'playing' it when not thinking about other things, or even as a background track while I'm concentrating on something else. However, I find musical symbols (and symbols in general) easier to remember than words and sentences, so like when singing and learning music I'll remember the music before I can do the words.

i get the sexual one... like "that person is more sexually active and/or aware than what one would consider normal"... that makes sense.

but i agree about "sensual"... what the fuck are people trying to say when they say this? :confused:

i get the sexual one... like "that person is more sexually active and/or aware than what one would consider normal"... that makes sense.

but i agree about "sensual"... what the fuck are people trying to say when they say this? :confused:

Adjective

sensual (comparative more sensual, superlative most sensual)

Positive
sensual


Comparative
more sensual


Superlative
most sensual

1. Inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.

That massage was a very sensual experience!

2. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.

Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.



Basically it's a subtle way of bragging about your "abilities" which may or may not exist. It's rather arrogant if you ask me and I hate it even more than people who come right out and say it (as much as I can hate something I have no first-hand experience with of course).

And if you want to go by the second definition I'd interpret it as "I can be detected by your senses/My senses work". Congratulations, your existence and/or normally functioning central nervous system has been noted. Check back in twenty to thirty days to see if I care.

Can someone remind me that I wrote this in about four days so I can check back and see if I'm still this annoyed, it may just be exams getting to me again.

My pet peeve is "experience".

"Oh, it was an experience, darling!"

Indeed.

"The full automotive maintenence experience!"

Yes.

Basically it's a subtle way of bragging about your "abilities" which may or may not exist. It's rather arrogant if you ask me and I hate it even more than people who come right out and say it (as much as I can hate something I have no first-hand experience with of course).

And if you want to go by the second definition I'd interpret it as "I can be detected by your senses/My senses work". Congratulations, your existence and/or normally functioning central nervous system has been noted. Check back in twenty to thirty days to see if I care.

Can someone remind me that I wrote this in about four days so I can check back and see if I'm still this annoyed, it may just be exams getting to me again.

i guess its just that "more sensual" doesn't mean shit to me. i mean, for a start, how can you know? have you ever been someone else? and by meaning "erotic" its just... stupid.

"i'm a very erotic person"


shut up. :rolleyes:

i guess its just that "more sensual" doesn't mean shit to me. i mean, for a start, how can you know? have you ever been someone else? and by meaning "erotic" its just... stupid.

"i'm a very erotic person"


shut up. :rolleyes:

See how stupid you can make people sound with a little bit of mucking around with acronyms :D

My pet peeve is "experience".

"Oh, it was an experience, darling!"

Indeed.

"The full automotive maintenence experience!"

Yes.

I always just read that as "It changed my life"

I do not sense, I am dead to the world around me. I am tapped directly into the internet, speaking to you. I AM the internet, the filth surrounds, and I don't care.

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual."

Here "sensuale" is typically used as a more socially acceptable substitute for "sessuale" (sexual) and "sexy".

I hate the damn word.

"Or the feeling when a fresh french fry falls into your crotch while driving. It's not sexual, it's sensual." - Dennis Miller.

The only time I've heard the word and didn't cringe.Immediately

A head full of stubble won't be any less annoying. Especially when you go to bed and your scalp keeps snagging on the pillow. If it happens again, I suggest you just wet your hair and see if you can get it into a bun without uneven tightness.

that's really good advice thanks!

also, I hate it when people say "erotic" like "I am such an erotic person"

I feel like saying "you don't get to say that about yourself you idiot, and no, you aren't"

if someone called me that I would have to smack the crap out of them.

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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I consider myself very sensual.........what?

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.


Well, in the asexual community, we do refer to everyone else as sexuals, but that's a different context than what you're upset about, it seems.

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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Its Just a word Ilie... some of those people probably don't even know what it actually means, I know someone who throws perogative around and couldn't tell you what it means. As living breathing beings with more than one sex the whole species is sexual or sensual, I agree there. But some people consider themselves even more so than usual and so try to describe themselves as sensual... of course I'll have to agree again that its just selfish to say so. If someone else says it about someone (ex-girlfreinds use it to describe me *blush*) then I don't see how that could be annoying.

I personally cant stand the word 'womb' used outside a medical context. Gets on my nerves.

. As living breathing beings with more than one sex the whole species is sexual

Not the whole species. Just most of it.

Okay, this may be (and likely is) stupid, but I fucking hate when somebody uses the word "sensual." "Oh, she's a very sensual person." "I consider myself very sensual." Shut the hell up! How dippy and self-absorbed can you be? Geez!

It's almost as bad as saying that somebody is a very sexual person. The norm is that you receive information from your senses and probably enjoy it unless it's painful, and you enjoy sex! That is how people are made! If you are asexual, that is something to talk about. And I think it is even more proof that describing oneself as sensual is stupid that I have never, ever heard somebody say they are asensual. Nobody is asensual, and if they were, they wouldn't think to talk about it.

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Heh I love it when mere words anger people to the point of ranting!

Well, in the asexual community, we do refer to everyone else as sexuals, but that's a different context than what you're upset about, it seems.

See that quote at the bottom of my sig... ever since I memorised that I sometimes use the term "Normal(s)" to refer to people I don't know very well.

You sensitive? BS. I picture you as a potential asshole. You are the most prime to asshole'ishnes when you are given leniency, understanding or compassion. You only respect what doesn't respect you. Any one that likes you, you simply knock off as unworthy because you know if they can like you, or relate to you .. they obviously aren't worth a shit.. and definatly not of beneficial value. You are a leach upon yourself.

Oh, I'm sorry did I not specify who this was aimed at? Secret aj man.

I'm going to regret being so mean when I sober up.

thank you for the ringing endorcement.

to your utter hostility towards me i have no clue,i have never said a bad word to you as far as i know,and i know my ex wife loves me,and a few other people,so i aint the asshole you think i am...but your entitled to your opinion.
maybe i dissagree with you on subjects,,but is that worthy of the vitriol you sent my way?
i really dont care and maybe that makes you mad,it should not but it seems to.
point is...we were talking about sensual,it is a tricky topic,i am listenening to feel the rain on your skin..i like it...people confuse sex with sensuality.
sensuality is an aura you have,a cat is sensual to me but i dont want to fuck a cat...but i look at a cat and find it very sensual,the way it moves,etc.
it has nothing to do with sex.
it is just the aura that is a natural thing that is carried by who ever is sensual.
i live at the beach...i see "sexy girls " all the time,but i dont look at them and think sensual,i think sex...damn i want that ass...to be crasss...but everyonce in awhile,you see someone above the sex thing..they exude sexuality,thats the closest i can come up with to answer the question at hand.but is far more then sex...it is a ....i cant put my finger on it..but it aint a sex thing.
it is like a natural thing,inherint in them..i dont have it..hell you hate me and we never met and i am by all accounts a nice guy.

sorry you hate me by the way,never intended to have total strangers hate me.

And I fucking hate it when people confuse "sensual" with "sensuous."

I wouldn't call myself erotic or sensual, because if I did there'd be a few people in this thread out for my blood :p

It is far too ambiguous for my liking; does it suggest that the moron making the statement is a sensual object, or that they appreciate sensual objects, or both?

Ho hum, such is modernity, and the cow pat that seems to pass for diction therein.:D

Hunm...

Brunettes = Sensual.
Blondes = Sexual. :cool:

I think this is mostly people who are trying to say "sensuous" but who don't know how to use words.

Correct. We learned that lesson in "Animal House".

Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Mine's bigger. My cucumber. It's bigger. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don't you?
Marion Wormer: No, vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous.
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Right. Sensual. That's what I meant. My name's Eric Stratton. People call me Otter.
Marion Wormer: My name's Marion. People call me Mrs. Wormer.
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Oh, we have a Dean Wormer at Faber.
Marion Wormer: How interesting. I have a husband named Dean Wormer at Faber. Still want to show me your cucumber?

I'm pretty sure "sensual" is an advertising word used to describe particularly scrumptious food products.

sorry you hate me by the way,never intended to have total strangers hate me.

Personally, I'm surprised that nobody's come out and said that they hate me yet. Seeing as how everybody is annoyed by me in real life. I guess that doesn't happen to you often then?

Correct. We learned that lesson in "Animal House".

Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Mine's bigger. My cucumber. It's bigger. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don't you?
Marion Wormer: No, vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous.
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Right. Sensual. That's what I meant. My name's Eric Stratton. People call me Otter.
Marion Wormer: My name's Marion. People call me Mrs. Wormer.
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Oh, we have a Dean Wormer at Faber.
Marion Wormer: How interesting. I have a husband named Dean Wormer at Faber. Still want to show me your cucumber?


But Wormer has it backwards. Sensuous means "perceived by the senses." Sensual means "preoccupied with the senses."

i get the sexual one... like "that person is more sexually active and/or aware than what one would consider normal"... that makes sense.

but i agree about "sensual"... what the fuck are people trying to say when they say this? :confused:

That they are more concerned with the experience of seeing, hearing, and feeling things than they are about thinking about them. That you prefer things like dancing and fine food to stimulating discussion, and once you're done listening to a song you'd rather listen to the next one that discuss the merits of the piece that just concluded.

You're saying that you're more of a sensual person than you are a social or intellectual one. All people are sexual, intellectual, sensual, emotional, social and a hundred other things. But in most people only one or two of these traits will so dominate their personality as to define their identity.

i guess its just that "more sensual" doesn't mean shit to me. i mean, for a start, how can you know? have you ever been someone else? and by meaning "erotic" its just... stupid.

"i'm a very erotic person"


shut up. :rolleyes:

Well, people people use almost everything as euphemisms for sex. Words like "explicit" and "graphic." Those words just mean "clear," and "picture," respectively, yet we take them to mean "raunchy." That can be set aside with respect to the "sensual" topic.

But I've pointed out before, sensuality as a personality trait will be evident in your behavior. I've never been the woman who sits in the cubicle next to me but I'm fairly sure I'm more intellectual than she is because when I got caught up in an argument about politics her only contribution was "I don't know anything about that stuff." And when I am reading a 5,000 page book on the history of New York, gives me a look of horror before returning to her People Magazine.

Note I'm not saying she's stupid. I'm saying she's not intellectual. Curiosity about the nature of the world and events in it do not form an obvious part of her persona. Curiosity about the merits of fashion trends and the popularity of celebrities does, not because she cares about the artistry (aesthetics and theatre are intellectual interests), but because it's what she will be looking at and listening to (or perceiving through her senses.)

And I would say that she's more sensual than I because she makes a point of being a fashion plate and touches people when she talks to them whereas I make a point of trying to look like I didn't come to work the shirt that I had bunched up under the driver's seat of my car, and often don't even look at people when I'm talking to them, not out of lack of respect, but because looking at people distracts me from hearing them.