Is it ok to find a fictional character sexy/attractive?

[Lamppenkeyboard]

Marrying an anime body pillow is creepy, but finding a drawn character attractive isn't. There of course is plenty of gray area between the two.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

The length of the Perverse Sexual Lust pages on TV Tropes says that it is perfectly normal.

Besides, if being attracted to Tali is wrong, fuck being right.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I dont think its wrong as long as you can keep it in check. Like looking at a picture of a person in art and saying "wow, thats attractive" but then holding everyone up to it and looking for a person on an impossibly unrealistic degree.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

As long as nobody is being harmed an any way there is no problem at all. If you are able to profit off of their chosen love object than that's even better. Not that it's good to take advantage of people I guess...

 

[cheese_wizington]

Why it's better than OK, it's great!

 

[Hyzenthlay]

When I was ten or eleven,I had a huge crush on Mimi from the original series of Digimon.Looking back,I can't remember why,but I just know I did.

More recently,while reading a series of books called The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb,I found that I was really attracted to Lady Patience,because she's what I would look for in a girl.Strange,weird,and will chase people around a court yard with a horse whip for ever saying something wrong about her husband's bastard son XD

So I'd be a hypocrite if I said it's wrong.Like people have said,it's fine,as long as you don't go too far.But hey,everyone's got that weird thing about them,so,you know,he without sin and all that

Hahaha! I love Robin Hobb books! Kind of had a bit of a crush on Verity for a while there. And Patience is an awesome character.

I can understand the crush on Verity,and I'm a straight guy.But,alas,my man crush heart will always belong to Burrich when it comes to those books.A man who dies charging a dragon,when he is blind,and can barely walk at the best of times,is a man who deserves some man crushes.

And when I said to my friend that I wished I had a girlfriend like Patience,he gave me a very funny look,and changed the subject quite quickly.But she's awesome!

I can't believe I forgot Burrich! Oh what a man!
Seriously though, I work part-time at a book shop and recommend those books to everyone. "You want Twilight? No you dont! You want this instead!"
However, I get a little too excited whenever someone buys books I like of their own accord though. Can't help being really overenthusiastic and having extended conversations with them. Most people seem glad to find someone who approves their taste in books. One guy, who must have be about 16, seems to have misinterpreted it as me hitting on him though and keeps coming back in to try to have awkward conversations while I'm trying to serve other people. I'm pretty sure that would be creepy though, I must look younger or something...Didn't stop my co-worker making a running joke that I hit on awkward shy 16 year old boys to sell books though.

Overall my conclusion is that being attracted to fictional characters is perfectly ok, as long as it doesn't stop you from being able to be attracted to real people. Perfect examples of taking it too far are the girls who break up with their real life boyfriends because they are not enough like Edward from Twilight. :/

 

[Yawwy]

When I was ten or eleven,I had a huge crush on Mimi from the original series of Digimon.Looking back,I can't remember why,but I just know I did.

More recently,while reading a series of books called The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb,I found that I was really attracted to Lady Patience,because she's what I would look for in a girl.Strange,weird,and will chase people around a court yard with a horse whip for ever saying something wrong about her husband's bastard son XD

So I'd be a hypocrite if I said it's wrong.Like people have said,it's fine,as long as you don't go too far.But hey,everyone's got that weird thing about them,so,you know,he without sin and all that

Hahaha! I love Robin Hobb books! Kind of had a bit of a crush on Verity for a while there. And Patience is an awesome character.

I can understand the crush on Verity,and I'm a straight guy.But,alas,my man crush heart will always belong to Burrich when it comes to those books.A man who dies charging a dragon,when he is blind,and can barely walk at the best of times,is a man who deserves some man crushes.

And when I said to my friend that I wished I had a girlfriend like Patience,he gave me a very funny look,and changed the subject quite quickly.But she's awesome!

I can't believe I forgot Burrich! Oh what a man!
Seriously though, I work part-time at a book shop and recommend those books to everyone. "You want Twilight? No you dont! You want this instead!"
However, I get a little too excited whenever someone buys books I like of their own accord though. Can't help being really overenthusiastic and having extended conversations with them. Most people seem glad to find someone who approves their taste in books. One guy, who must have be about 16, seems to have misinterpreted it as me hitting on him though and keeps coming back in to try to have awkward conversations while I'm trying to serve other people. I'm pretty sure that would be creepy though, I must look younger or something...Didn't stop my co-worker making a running joke that I hit on awkward shy 16 year old boys to sell books though.

Overall my conclusion is that being attracted to fictional characters is perfectly ok, as long as it doesn't stop you from being able to be attracted to real people. Perfect examples of taking it too far are the girls who break up with their real life boyfriends because they are not enough like Edward from Twilight. :/

I would totally come back and talk with you about how smexy Burrich is.

I remember my ex was reading Twilight-this was back before it was HUGE I think-and we were only...fifteen or sixteen?At one point I asked her why she read the books,considering all the bad things I'd heard about them.Her response?She liked the...tension between Edward and Bella.Liked it a little too much.If I hadn't loved her as much as I did,I would have been slightly creeped out by that.As it was,I shrugged it off.Gladly,she never asked me to be a little more like Edward.I think she even said that she thought it was a little creepy,and that she'd rather have a guy like me,rather than a pale weirdo who is only going to blind her every time she tries to look at him on a slightly sunny day.

 

[EchetusXe]

Yes it is ok to find them attractive. To be sexually aroused by them is kinda a grey area.

I wouldn't have any interest in them myself until we started developing the technology for having Star Trek like holodeck orgies (you know they had them).

 

[Your Nightmare]

No, it's terribly wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself... or, you know, stop sweating the trivial shit.

I second this. It's just kinda weird. But each to their own I guess..

 

[maturin]

If you say no, I'm sorry to say that you are an idiot. Creating an image of beauty designed to provoke a reaction is the entire point of the exercise. And it makes absolutely no difference if it is an ancient Greek sculptor working on a bust of Aphrodite, Da Vinci painting a scene, or a teenager playing Final Fantasy and crushing on that digital thirteen year old developed by Japanese pedophiles who suck at storytelling. This isn't even a serious question, it's just about lingering geek stigma.

 

[Generic_Dave]

I've probably been ninja'd already on this, but I didn't see a comment on my read through...

I have one response to this question. Jessica Rabbit. 'Nuf said.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Yes, BUT don't lose your sense of reality. Don't forget theres still a real world around you with beautiful women in it to.

 

[Super Toast]

If you weren't supposed to find them sexy, they wouldn't be designed the way they were. Just don't get obsessed.

 

[Oh That Dude]

As long as it's not one of The Simpsons or anything from Futurama, I see nothing inherently wrong with it. If the character is portrayed well enough to create an impression of the kind of person you find sexy, attractive, adorable or whatever, then it's merely a sign that the creator of that character has doen a good job.

I think its better to say that its completely ok you can find any fictional characters sexy or attractive (after all its no different then finding a real person sexy/attractive, just without the fun), even from the Simpsons or Futurama just don't create porn out of it for me to accidentally stumble across and cause me to splatter my breakfast all over the keyboard >_>

Right. Breakfast. Suuuuure.

 

[Jamous]

Put simply, yes.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

As long as it's not one of The Simpsons or anything from Futurama, I see nothing inherently wrong with it. If the character is portrayed well enough to create an impression of the kind of person you find sexy, attractive, adorable or whatever, then it's merely a sign that the creator of that character has doen a good job.

I think its better to say that its completely ok you can find any fictional characters sexy or attractive (after all its no different then finding a real person sexy/attractive, just without the fun), even from the Simpsons or Futurama just don't create porn out of it for me to accidentally stumble across and cause me to splatter my breakfast all over the keyboard >_>

Right. Breakfast. Suuuuure.

Whatever are you suggesting good sir!?!