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Sexual attraction: What's the difference between romantic attraction and sexual attraction?

Profile: Zer0Carter
Zer0Carter on Jan 7, 2016
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Romantic attraction seems to be when you genuinely love and care about someone, wanting only the best for them. Sexual attraction tends to revolve around the body, how people dress themselves and/or the things they do.
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Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jan 9, 2016
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Romantic attraction is when you like every piece of someone. Sexual attraction is when you only want the person's body.
Profile: Michelle0621
Michelle0621 on Jan 9, 2016
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Romantic attraction is about mental communication, sexual attraction is about physical communication.
Profile: CaseyC
CaseyC on Jan 9, 2016
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Romantic attractions are who you want to be romantic with, in terms of dating or hugging/kissing. Sexual attractions are people who you want to be involved with sexually.
Profile: devin00
devin00 on Jan 9, 2016
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Romantic attraction has to do with an emotional attachment to one. for example their personality. Sexual attraction has to do with someone only wanting you for sex sometimes they just use one for that.
Profile: gentleBeauty65
gentleBeauty65 on Jan 9, 2016
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Romantic means you get butterflies when you see them or the things they do make you feel a certain way in your heart but sexual attraction means they turn you on and you have a sexual appeal towards them. Theres not a full connect with that person on a person level unless you have romantic attraction too.
Profile: LoyalLouie
LoyalLouie on Jan 9, 2016
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Sexual attraction is all about their appearance and whether they fit the traits by which you define 'attractive'. In contrast to romantic attraction you don't need any kind of emotional bond for it. Romantic attraction, on the other hand, is all about the feelings you have for a certain person. It's a strong emotional bond that makes you deeply caring about the other person, whereas you can be sexually attracted without actually caring about how the person is doing. However, they very often appear together or one leads to the other.
Profile: kindDreamer93
kindDreamer93 on Jan 10, 2016
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The difference between sexual attraction is lusting for a person, Lust is where you have strong sexual desires for someone wanting to have sexual intercourse with them mostly, romantic attraction is when you find that person that you are attracted to that you want to do things with them like go on dates, go to movies ect.
Profile: allthelove99
allthelove99 on Jan 13, 2016
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Romantic attraction is the emotional response to the desire to have a romantic relation with someone, It can usually be described as innocent compared to sexual attraction. You may not want a sexual relationship with someone just because you have a romantic relationship with them. Sexual attraction is the physical and mental response of the desire to have a sexual relationship with someone. You may not necessarily want a romantic relationship with someone just because you want a sexual relationship with them.
Profile: Crest
Crest on Jan 14, 2016
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Basically, the difference between who/what you get hard/wet over versus what your heart melts over.
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