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Ever felt intense sexual attraction to a stranger/someone you shouldn't ?

149 replies

Tadmadruby · 28/09/2021 18:40

I have never experienced this before so i don't quite understand it myself and did not act on it.

I am 34, divorced, had two long term relationships, never thought sex was missing anything before 🙈! Moved recently to a new flat, i saw a neighbour couple of times, no interaction between us so whatever and did not even look at him twice, then one day i was looking out if my window, he was standing in the street opposite my window on the phone with someone, i don't know what happen BOOM i was breathless, his voice is so dam sexy, i am just so hot for him, he is not even that good looking yet i find extremely sexually attractive!

It hit me so sudden, he is a stranger to me, not my type, but i am going crazy for him (not emotional, its animal instinct) !
I have seen him couple of times since and i try and look the other way whenever we cross path, it is just too much to handle !

The heck is that ?!

Anyone ever experienced sudden intense sexual desire to a stranger ? Do tell, would be good if i am not the only one.. weird🙈🙈

OP posts:
Skatastic · 02/10/2021 18:15

Yes as soon as I clocked eyes on H. Wow. Been together a long time and people still comment on how attracted we are to each other.

NeilBuchananisBanksy · 02/10/2021 18:47

Yes. With someone at work. I know he feels the same. It's unbearable. Would have said I was happily married before this. Nothings happened but the guilt is killing me.

I just hope it goes. Sad

shas19 · 02/10/2021 18:59

Dp's friend. Left alone in a room once and was too much tension!

lemmeavabru · 02/10/2021 21:42

Yes. Never experienced anything like it. It wasn't instant but once we made eye contact... BOOM. I know it wasn't reciprocated at the time. Always try to avoid him. (School run situation) He has a gorgeous wife and I'm also married. Would never act upon it. But it has been years and I think its hard for me to hide it! He knows...it's so embarrassing. Never interacted. But sometimes I feel it might be mutual because I can see him glancing at me from the corner of my eyes! But we mostly, deliberately avoid each other, look away when each other's around. Aloof.
I feel really stupid because I think it's an ego boost for him. And I so badly don't want to feel anything. But. whenever I see him, even if it's his car or him walking, or his side profile I feel all flustered and giddy like a teenage girl! He's not even that good looking and never someone I'd fallen for before!
It's not as intense as it was. I thought it would disappear when kids left school and I won't see them but he's bought a house overlooking mine and renovating it! He knows I live there, he knows that I know he lives there. When will this nightmare end!

whatisthisinhere · 03/10/2021 11:14

Yes, a few times. Hate it

LondonCrone · 03/10/2021 18:00

Yes, a man I met one summer. When we’d kiss it was so intense that I’d black out, basically. We couldn’t even look at each other without blushing. We put it on pause while went travelling for six months (it had already been arranged, and we were at very early stages) and by the time I got back he’d met someone else. I still sometimes can’t believe it ended that way, and I wonder if he thinks about me. But what can you do, except move on and hope to find something like it again?

Bollocks989 · 03/10/2021 19:16

Yes, but can't say any more for fear of outing myself!

purplebatbear · 03/10/2021 22:15

Yes. Was at a party and this guy was looking at me quite intensely. Hit me like a thunderbolt but I thought he was married to someone I'd just met, so I ignored him.

Roll on an hour later and bumped into him at the bar. Had a very awkward conversation where it was so clearly obvious we both felt something electric. Turns out he wasn't married to her... but is to someone else. I'm going through a separation and there's no way I'd knowingly ever be the other woman as I've had that shit done to me (ex cheated).

So made the most of the most ridiculously intense conversation I've ever had and then went home, alone.

moriadne · 03/10/2021 22:33

Yes, once. He was one of my tutors at uni, but I'd seen him round for three years before he became my tutor. The attraction was like nothing I'd ever felt. I couldn't focus in his classes, I was just filled with lust for hours after seeing him. Our fingers brushed once and I thought I was going to come on the spot!

It wasn't good though; made me find discontentment in my relationship where there had previously been none, and I broke up with my long term partner. When I'd finished uni, I hooked up with uni tutor. Sex was mediocre and he was a twat.

foxgoosefinch · 03/10/2021 22:38

A few times, but most recently when I interviewed a young man for a job (he must have been about 25 and I’m at least 15 years older so it would have been wildly inappropriate! 😂)

He was good looking but not especially so, and quite unconfident and naive. But it was like he had some kind of male sex pheromone absolutely dripping off him every time he moved. I was near speechless with surprise!

Especially unusual for me because I’m mostly attracted to women, and rarely to men.

That young man must have girls absolutely falling at his feet 😂

SmallProvincial · 03/10/2021 22:45

Yes, aged 20 I opened the door to receive some DJ equipment for my then-boyfriend's 21st birthday party.

There was this pink haired guy with the DJ stuff, and it hit me like lightning.

I was immediately obsessed. I've never felt anything like it before or since.

For 10 years we saw each other socially, sometimes dated, were in and out of a relationship with each other, occasionally took a year or two apart, then were drawn back together. Genuinely I could have sworn we were the two halves of the same coin (and I'm not remote woo).

It finally ended dismally when I was 30.

I met DH when I was 32. We've never had that lightning bolt, but we have been happy, comfortable, and complementary ever since.

ImprobablePuffin · 04/10/2021 20:04

What a horny little thread

RovenderKitt · 04/10/2021 20:20

Yes, on an overseas business trip. A group of us met in the evening, as soon as I arrived he broke off his conversation to ask who I was. At dinner our MD wanted them to sit together but he ignored him and came to sit with me. The next day he was driving us to a meeting and I was in the back seat and he kept looking at me in the rear view mirror. A couple of years later he came to the UK to visit our site. I hid in my out of the way office and didn’t come out all day.

colouringindoors · 04/10/2021 21:20

@Skatastic omg ♥️ I feel like this about my new OH... 🤞🤞🤞

Fluffle55 · 04/10/2021 22:17

This is a bit different but I saw a black and white head shot in a newspaper of the sexiest and most attractive man I’ve ever seen. There are only three photos of him on the whole internet, he’s a cognitive neuroscientist, and just thinking of his face makes my mouth water. SO weird!!

OrlandointheWilderness · 04/10/2021 22:29

Yes. Luckily for a man I was going on a first date with! We've not been together long - 4 months - but the chemistry is unreal. Helps that he is also a truly lovely person.

Maskless · 04/10/2021 22:56

Yes, it happened to me 25 years ago. Very similar! And I am still trying to make sense of it.

I was 35 and in a very happy cohabiting relationship with a gorgeous, funny, kind man of 33. We'd just bought our first house together. Life was perfect.

One day I was standing on a station platform when a colleague arrived, put down his briefcase about 20ft from me, to wait for his train. He was about 48 and nothing special. As I looked at him, I felt suddenly excited, I mean sexually! All tingly and weak-kneed and breathless. That had never happened to me before and it never has since with any other man.

He got on his train and I got on mine, and I just HAD to go to the loo and um, well, I won't say what I did.

From that moment, I could not stop thinking about him. I sneakily found out where and when he was working and "accidentally" turned up, acted all casual, and just chatted with him till he had to go. Again, my body got majorly turned on even though he didn't lay a finger on me and we chatted about banal work things.

I was utterly powerless to stop thinking and fantasising about him. A female colleague was booked to go on a course with him and I begged her to surreptitiously get a photo of him for me, which she did. I'd never seen him without a hat before and it turned out he was completely bald on top. Oh, and sitting down he had a fat gut that I had not noticed. And yet I did not care about either of these things! I was utterly crazy for him.

I carried that photo with me everywhere, repeatedly looking at it, and it made my heart leap and my loins throb. When I could get privacy away from my partner, I took the photo to bed and, well, you know what.

The man left our workplace soon afterwards and I sobbed and sobbed, and still carried on using his photo for my w*nk-fodder.

It was a few weeks of utter madness. It was completely out of my control. I could have lost my partner, my new home, everything we'd worked for.

again2020 · 05/10/2021 14:08

Yes, a fair few times over the years.

There was one ex- colleague I clicked with and it felt like sparks flew off him!
More recently with a Dad at the park who I chatted with.
I'm wasn't single when meeting either man Blush
You are , OP, so enjoy it for what it is.

DrinkingWishingSmokingHoping · 20/11/2021 21:32

I know I’m very late back to this thread, but…

I haven't RTFT but I'm a Jenga Ninja and I once played against a bloke and he told me I couldn't remove any blocks and I was buggered. I looked him right in the eye and flicked a block across the room without looking at it. Won the game.

If he didn't at least have a semi, who on earth is he? Grin

I’d have totally shagged you, @MrsTerryPratchett. Grin Grin

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/11/2021 21:39
Grin
Careeringallovertheplace · 10/09/2025 10:43

myfacelookslikeatoe · 29/09/2021 20:26

Yes the short bloke in my co op

Bringing this thread back to life just for this post

Dolpher · 16/09/2025 02:57

Yes. My friends girlfriend back in the day and sadly we both acted on our feelings.

Dolpher · 16/09/2025 05:00

Many years ago, I had a situation like that. My friend‘s girlfriend and I were left together and things kind of got hot between us.

1one · 16/09/2025 08:38

I experienced this with my friend's boyfriend years ago and if I close my eyes I can still feel the angst of being in the same room as him...the desire, the electricity if he brushed past me.

I adored him. Even after they split and he became single, then dated others. I never acted or took my chance because although we eyed each other all the time, he never acted on it and I wasnt confident to take the lead.

He died in 2021 and I was so upset but couldn't talk to anyone about it.

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