…to wonder how we fall in love when bodies are kind of grim?

[BarilynBordeaux]

Idle brain wandering - Seen a few posts advising to get over heartbreak or a crush on some bloke by imagining him the loo or whatever to prove he ain’t great - but, erm, everyone does that! Even people who are great 😂 Sometimes I wonder how we fall in love at all up against with the weird undignified reality of just having a body with all its functions. Sometimes just having a body feels so gross myself I wonder why I’m looking to share space with another one!

When you think about it kissing is mechanically gross.

Why do we open our mouths to each other and rub tongues! Its so weird!

Yes kissing is minging really isn’t it.
We are just gross

Do immortal vampires have bowel movements and toenail fungus though? You’d never have to worry about caretaking him through the norovirus for example

That poem is spectacular @Screamingabdabz

This kind of discussion also makes me think about hundreds of years ago when hygiene was much less easy to keep up with than it is now.

Well Nosferatu looked like a right stinker in the film. Like he was literally rotting. Long dirty manky nails 🤢 he deffo had a stinky peen

I hate kissing! Always did my best to avoid it.
Yuk.

What really baffles me is the young adults obsessions with bums now, sex and oral. Its an arse???! It makes me actually heave

I often think about how smelly it must have been in the old days with no deodorant and things.

Did woman shave back in Tudor times??
I imagine things were very hairy and smelly.

but it feels so good!
WIth the right person. I don't know why exactly, but dating a good kisser is amazing.

The human sex drive is a powerful thing.. I always wonder how people had sex in really filthy times hundreds of years ago. I wonder how men lick womens bumholes and vaginas after a night of sweaty dancing and toileting.. And when you really think of what we do during sex it’s so.. weird 🤣

I agree with you @Jamjars but this is Mumsnet, where you have to use bawdry toilet level humour to ingratiate yourself to other posters.

You have to ridicule any bodily functions in case you come across as an ardent passionate type who actually likes sex (“perish the thought! We only shagged around in our twenties because we were insecure. Once we found DH, went right off that huffing and puffing” etc..)

And then when we pop up in six years time on the Love and Relationships forum decrying the fact our husband has left us for someone who actually sees sex as more than a punchline to a joke, we fail to see any correlation

ok breaking character now..: why are so many (I assume British) Mumsnetters so performatively humorous about sex on here? It’s not really that funny but it IS very telling

Do you have a partner?

I don’t really feel like this. However, I have often wondered why nature deemed it necessary to park our most amazing pleasure-giving and sensual organs, which are essential for procreation, right next to the ones which are responsible for some of the most disgusting things we do. That baffles me. Why didn’t they end up at opposite ends of the body FFS?!

I could watch Jensen Ackles grapple with norovirus and it wouldn't make a dent.

Not anymore. I decided it wasn’t for me.
I think I’m probably asexual or something. I don’t really feel that way about anyone. Humans gross me out (as you’ve probably realised!)
I have Asperger’s so it may be a sensation thing too.

I don't think bodies are grim. And I love kissing.

@RichHolidayPoorHoliday
Definitely this! and them keeping their toilet habits private I can NEVER fancy someone who I have seen using the toilet. MIGHT be fractionally different if it were to be a woman, because y'know. Sitting down, nothing to be seen. But a bloke??? Urgh. And DEFO not pooing 🤮🤮🤮🤮

@Jamjams
Turkey necks and chicken gizzards are a euphemism/slang for penis and balls.

Have defo had the 'ripping their clothes' off phase. But it's illogical and solely hormone driven. Got to be able to laugh about it.

@JacquesHarlow
why are so many (I assume British) Mumsnetters so performatively humorous about sex on here? It’s not really that funny but it IS very telling

How do you NOT see sex as funny? It's rutting. Bestial. Yes, we all do it. But we look ridiculous doing it. It really can't be taken that seriously. It just shows up how we are as much animals as, well, animals!

I think the human body is amazing, not grim at all. I think of amazing things that we can do, it's beautiful.

You are possibly doing the sex wrong 😆 I have never looked ridiculous during sex 😉

I find a lot of Mumsnet posters a little over the top with hygiene and ‘grim’ bodies etc. I don’t find anything grim about bodies at all - sweat, going to the toilet, snot etc. It’s just like … who cares? Obviously in excess if someone smells then it’s unpleasant but that’s quite uncommon.

You fall in love precisely to allow you to overlook that bodies are grim.

It takes a serious amount of brain chemicals to make you think that having someone stick a particularly unattractive part of their anatomy into an especially unlovely part of yours is a delightful way to spend your time.

😂😂😂

fair

You've obviously not been in the next room whilst my brother is in the bathroom.

It's really not uncommon for women, years later, when it's all over to find men that used to make them go weak at the knees in the lust of youth actually repulsive. and I mean repulsive - like I couldn't even touch him if you paid me millions.

this is a really good point and I do think the sudden dropping of procreative hormones has a lot to do with suddenly finding the physical aspects of a previously much lusted after partner suddenly off putting

Really? Five minutes ago my cat was energetically licking his own arsehole. And the other half of the disemboweled mouse he left me two weeks ago is presumably inside him.