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well, obviously, people don't look so great up close. You discover millions of new hairs. The eyes turn into goopy pools of slime. And even the most modest blemish suddenly becomes Mt. Pinatubo.
The basic problem is we are too visual to begin with. As predatory, analytical creatures we are designed to rely on our vision more than any other sense. Diane Ackerman, in her book of Natural History of Senses, notes that 70% of the body's sense receptors are clustered in the eyes.
"Lovers close their eyes when they kiss because, if they didnt there would be too many visual distractions to notice and analyze-the sudden close-up of the loved one's eye lashes and hair, the wallpaper, the clock face, the dust motes suspended in a shaft of sunlight."
Also this enables you to pretend that "John" actually is "bruce"
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There is a line in an old old song that goes: "When we kiss do you close your eyes, Pretending that I'm someone else".
Does that explain everything? :-)
LOL that's certainly cute! (Though I try my best not to pretend X is Y. I might enjoy myself too much. Hahahaha)
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