Redditor Undecided_User_Name wanted to hear about "unique" ways people find themselves turned on, so they asked:
"What is the weirdest thing you find extremely attractive?"
Don't Speak
be quiet canadian GIF by CBCGiphy"Husky voices on girls. If she sounds like a dude, that's just insanely hot? No idea why."
superbia1997
Butt Out
"My husband can do an incredible impersonation of a gorilla. Knuckles on the ground, butt sticking out, huffing noise, the whole deal. Wouldn’t you know that has gotten me into bed more times than I would care to admit it! I want to say it’s mostly because he makes me laugh so much but damn, sometimes I see a gorilla and I’m like, 'Wow, he’s pretty handsome.'"
sunnysunnysunsun
Nothing Fancy
"When they go all the way dressing up. Not in the fancy way, but in the 'Oh there’s a theme and I’m not shy to go all the way with my costume.' Shows confidence and a great fun factor.'"
mijranda
"For me that also goes for events. When I was in nursing school, we had what was called our white coat ceremony in our first semester. It's like a 'welcome to becoming a nurse' event; we all dress business casual, wear our lab coat, have a guest speaker, and take pics. It's sweet and feels pretty special, but it's not as big of a deal as our pinning ceremony."
"So we all show up for the event, and in walks one of our classmates in a full, blue suit. A horde of my classmates erupted in 'aww's' because he had clearly over-dressed, but that one event made me look at him different for the rest of my schooling. It wasn't the fact that he was in a suit, but the fact that he was over-dressed and not in a cocky way. He actually was really embarrassed when he realized his mistake, but damn I still feel a little tingly inside about it."
skoros
Dots
"Some impurities in the face like freckles or random black dots. My boyfriend has this one black dot directly below his eye in the middle of his left cheek. It makes him infinitely more valuable on the face market to me. Looks so darn adorable."
Oddishoderso
"That black dot may be a skin tumor/cancer... Not saying it is for sure but especially if he only has one and it has a texture, unevenness, he should get that checked. Especially if it is new and he didn't have it as a birthmark."
Bunny_tornado
Hold Me
Cuddle Snuggling GIF by bluesbearGiphy"Whenever my fiancé cuddles me, she puts her whole face in my neck and gives it kisses. It's not only sexy but super endearing. It's honestly the most adorable thing and she just fits so perfectly. I love her."
Saint_Umbro
A good snuggle, even an aggressive one, is welcome.
Imperfect
adam levine wait GIF by Maroon 5Giphy"The idea that in this microwave ready, Instagram perfect world, that there are people, like all of you in this thread, that appreciate the imperfections in people and make them sound like the most attractive features ever."
rhondaanaconda
I'm Listening
"People who can ramble on about their passion/s for hours. I love listening to people talk about the stuff they love."
andeelee23
"Honestly this is just such a help for my own self-confidence. I often keep on rambling on and on about stuff I like and half the time I just feel like I'm talking too much and the other person just wants me to shut up."
BlomSmashman
"This is hit or miss for me. I enjoy a good conversation, but I have a friend who if you ask him a question, he will go on foreeeeever without you being a part of the conversation. He just keeps talking about trains and star wars and Dragon Ball Z and airplanes and sh*t like that for like 20 minutes or more and youre just sitting there like mhm.... please stop."
VividLazerEyeGod
Drowsy Hot
"Don't know why, but exhausted men look super hot to me. Probably because being exhausted is as close as being the real you as possible."
aherusia
"I think there's a couple 'raw' versions of people. A great one is when someone is just completely relaxed, like present and not worrying about anything else at that time. You get to see what they think and say and how they act when the mental space is cleared and they're free to think about whatever without life's demands pressing into their consciousness."
Foxsayy
Wear it Proud
"My husband got himself this bear onesie. The first time he put it on I was like…what is this feeling? Why am I aroused right now? After a few occasions of him wearing it I was like, well I guess I’m a borderline furry (although I think it’s the snuggly softness that does it for me rather than anything animalistic)."
"He still thinks it’s very weird, but he will put it on for me when I ask. Too bad for him our anniversary is in the height of summer."
"Onesies are widely available, so I don’t really understand why so many people are asking where he got it (I mean they’re literally everywhere, and it’s not like his is special - it’s not a magical onesie, it’s just a normal, fluffy onesie with a hood and bear ears - it’s also not one of those loose ones - I like the way it hugs his butt…) but he bought his in Next, a basic high street shop in the UK. That was maybe four or five years ago, though, but you could definitely get one on Amazon."
chookity_pokpok
Pumped
Smirk Confidence GIFGiphy"Recently I've been working out more. My wife says the veins popping out of my arms and hands get her all hot and bothered for some reason. Either way it feels good when she touches them."
Papa_Skittles
We all have our little sexy soft spots. Veiny as they maybe.
Do you have any turn ons you'd like to share? Let us know in the comments below.
"What is one experience you think every single human should have?"
Positive humanity-related experiences seemed to be a good place to start.
Perfect Role Model
"Having a really good boss. Work is totally different when you have someone who mentors and cares about their employees."
– NeverCallMeFifi
Embracing You
"Being comfortable with yourself, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, and in all other ways. Just being happy with who you are."
– Prismatic_Dragon
Going After Laughter
"Finding something so funny that you roll on the floor laughing."
– CoelHen2021
Attain The Goal
"Being Debt-Free as an adult"
– kittybidapadoop
"Paying off my student loans felt better than an orgasm. I was stressed for years trying to pay it off and I finally was fortunate enough to land a good job and a good partner who allowed me to skip paying half rent for a couple months."
– pale_moon_pixie
Love Matters
"Feeling loved. Doesn’t matter if it’s romantic or platonic but feeling loved in some way."
– DoYouReadMuch
Taking in certain sights was strongly encouraged by these Redditors.
Cosmic Wonder
"Seeing the milky way."
– Jayciflash
The Ultimate Blackout
"A total solar eclipse. Did that once back in 2017 and it was amazing. There’s another big one in North America in about two years."
– ShanghaiTed
Foreign Travel
"Visiting another country. I feel like it would put people in a different perspective for everyone."
"Also, swimming in the ocean."
– boot2skull
Get Out There
"This is important but I want to add: visiting a country that’s significantly different from your own. Going from US -> Canada or Denmark -> Sweden is great but the cultures aren’t drastically different. The people, the food, the ideologies. I feel like you learn a lot more about the world and yourself when you visit someplace different."
– GivesCredit
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving." – Auntie Mame.
Don't be a poor sucker.
Wintery Playtime
"Getting to play in snow."
– brokendowndryer
Spend Time Alone
"Having no obligations or responsibilities, even if it's only for a few days. Nowhere you need to be, nothing on your schedule that you need to do. There are no loved ones around who you need to consider. You literally have the freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want."
– domino519
Channeling Walden
"A breathtaking moment in nature."
"It’s hard to put words to it but it conjures up so many different emotions that somehow all combine to create pure awe."
– iguanaherder
I think traveling to a foreign country is important.
Getting to experience different cultures firsthand and engaging with and learning from locals can be a life-changing experience.
I was lucky to have worked on a cruise ship where I traveled the world and worked with people from all over the world.
Without my exposure to different cultures, I would be a different person.
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1....
I have droopy eyes and a learning disability due to head trauma I sustained as a child but I never knew what happened. I was drinking with my older step brother and he broke down crying telling me he's sorry for hitting me and causing all those issues. Apparently when he was 15 he decided to strike me in the head and I wasn't the same after. I can't tell you how much it hurts knowing this. crackedenigma
2....
My older sister admitted to me that when she was a teenager she went to the back streets (an area full of warehouses) with our dad's gun and thought about killing herself.
My sister and I are 5 years apart. We didn't become close until I was about 13. She admitted this to me when I was about 14 or 15. I don't know if she remembers confiding in me about that detail, but I'm grateful she thought about her family members. I can't imagine growing up without her. merzul13
3....
I had a conversation with my mom. She was out of it and was 100% honest.
I was never planned for, wanted, or loved. I was an immediate regret. I knew this already but it was nice to hear it out loud. I didn't call 911 or anything, just let's the cards fall where they may. My mom went right back to gas lighting me and doesn't remember the conversation. She's confused why I moved 300 miles away and only talk to her twice a year. FuriousAbortedFeatus
4....
My buddy killed two people trying to rob him with a rock in Brazil while on vacation. He came back with bad scratches and cuts but he never told the authorities in fear that they'd arrest him or flip the story because he's a foreigner. screamingdolphin
5....
My friend came to school and told me something like this one day in fourth grade. "Dude I just ran into this old ladies mailbox in front of her house with my big ole bike on the way to school. She was sitting out front on her wheelchair. So I got the hell out of there. " Anyways she wheeled herself down to see the damage.
Lost control on the steep pavement to the road and got hit by a car. He said he had never biked so fast before. We are pretty sure she died. God may rest her soul. kyber_doo
6....
That someone I knew ran someone over with the car a few years ago. He couldn't help it, it was raining and an elderly woman dressed dark suddenly stepped out between parked cars, he had no chance to react in time. The dark part being that when the police came to inspect the case, they told him not to worry, because they would take care that he didn't get into trouble, because the old lady was "just a foreigner." They reported that his car was in perfect condition, his wipers brand new, anything to deflect any fault at all from him. Rylonian
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7....
Friend confessed that he moved back to our hometown to take care of his dying father. Ended up having an affair with his father's wife. She was a foreign bride closer to his age than his father's. At first, my friend joked about sex with his stepmother but as he got drunker he got sadder, and eventually his true feelings about what happened came out and he ended up sobbing in my arms. WillingCriticism246
8....
When I was 15 my cousin and I raided my dad's home brew and got plastered. That night she confessed to me that her father - my dad's brother in law - was a secret cross dresser. She'd come home early from a party and discovered him. Nothing to be ashamed of on his part but he was staunchly conservative and a total pompous fool. Last person you'd expect. My dad and grandfather couldn't stand the bloke.
I broke her confidence and ultimately told my dad. I was a kid and I didn't know what to do with the information. Dad of course didn't tell anyone but he did say "I'll only tell one person: Just the old man when he's on his death bed so he can die with a smile on his face." HiMyNameIsLaura
9....
My mom told me that my step dad is not my half-sister's dad. He had a vasectomy and I'm assuming they didn't want to reverse it, so she hand picked her father from a sperm bank. My sister is totally her Golden child/vanity project. Pretty sure my mom told me so I had to share the burden of the secret, not even my sister knows. And before anyone says I should tell her, I absolutely will not. It is not my place and I'm already the odd man out, they would all 110% turn on me. thebarkosaurusrex
10....
Was once told by my best friend that he had attempted suicide multiple times, and that he was gonna do it once and for all before our friend group started a group call and we joked and laughed for a couple hours. Then he put me on a private call and we talked about how he was mentally but now he's better than he was. Reddit
If you or someone you know is struggling, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
To find help outside the United States, the International Association for Suicide Prevention has resources available at https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/
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Dark Tool.
The Syrian Ministry of the Interior used a tool called the "Black Slave" that was basically a chair where the torture victim would sit on while nude. In the space under the cushion were large very hot skewers that would enter the victims anus and keep going it reached the intestines. They would do a push/pull method until the victim collapsed under the stress or spoke. ChairForces
Sarcophagus....
GiphyThis is completely fictional. But I think in the mummy or some movie like that some immortal dude got locked in a sarcophagus with scarab beetles that would eat him forever. JBatjj
Anguished.
The pear of anguish looks pretty damn awful.
"The pear consisted of a metal body (usually pear-shaped) divided into spoon-like segments that could be operated by turning a screw.
This contraption was originally meant to be inserted to one's mouth to crank the key piece to expand the metallic petals. The quadruple or triple petals expand outward, forcing the victim's inner mouth capacity to stretch beyond its limits." Yeah yeah, I know it was used for other orifices, but mouth was the original intention.
Spanish Donkey was another good one. _ripzayn
The Basics.
Tying someone up, keeping them fed and hydrated and injecting heroin into them for months until one day you decide to just leave them to deal with dehydration, starvation and withdrawals. I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS
Colorless....
Not the most screwed up but it's definitely a weird one.
White Torture is a form of sensory deprivation where the imprisoned is kept in a white room, made to wear white clothes, as are all the guards and they're even served white food on white plates. The lights are kept on at all times, no one was allowed to speak, and their shoes are padded to muffle sound.
The lack of color is apparently very mentally damaging. To quote Iranian journalist, Ebrahim Nabavi:
It is terrible. The loneliness never leaves you, long after you are "free." LittleRedLamps
Chief O'Brien
In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Chief O'Brien had 20 years of prison time implanted in his memories. He never actually went to the prison, but he thought he did. It messed him up. He tried to kill himself over it.
The writers of Star Trek really had it out for Chief O'Brien, poor guy. BagelDesk
Mickey Rat.
GiphyRat in a hotbox chained to a mans chest. BrokenMatchet
Dies too fast. The rat is placed on the condemned's stomach, so the rats eat his guts first trying to flee the heat. Spaiduhz
Too Real.
I once witnessed a father with his 3 year old daughter watching the baby shark video on his phone, once it ended she would scream until he restarted the video, she watched that video about 10 times in a row and the look on his face was that of pure depression, so I'm going to go with that. pops992pops992
Passed Out Agony...
GiphyThis old guy I used to work with would tell stories about torture in Vietnam, and this one stuck with me:
They'd tie the captive to a chair with his hands behind his back and bring in a hooker. She would pull his pants down and dance, touch, whatever was necessary to get him erect.
Then they would take a thin bamboo reed and slide it down his urethra.
And they'd bend his penis in the middle really quick so that it snapped off inside. Monsieur_Pounce
Judas.
The Judas cradle
You are stripped down and tied up by your and and legs. You are the suspended from the ceiling and dropped down butt first one a large metal spike. Most people bleed to death. thatoneguywhohasadog
The Wood...
GiphyIt would be hard to beat impaling, dying slowly over days with a wooden pole through your body. Vlad Tepes impaled kids too.
ThunderBloodRaven
Keelhauling .....
Keelhauling - the victim is dragged along the underside of a ship so that the barnacles will cut and shred them whilst simultaneously drowning them.
MrsCrackpot
Fun fact. You were sometimes meant to be able to survive it - if you were hauled from side to side it was possibly survivable (I mean infection and whatnot made it a gamble). You could also be hauled from bow to stern. Less survivable.
sabre252
Lingchi.....
Lingchi, an ancient form of torture/execution from China in which the condemned is slowly and systematically cut into pieces through the use of literally hundreds/thousands of knives.
JimmyTheOtherCat
The Groin....
Upside down sawing from groin all the way down. Blood stays in your head so you stay conscious. So awful.
Scmethodist
The horrors....
GiphyThe one where they put you in a metal bull and then heat it with a fire so that when you cook your screams can be heard and then when you start to boil your water escapes in steam out of its nose it pretty horrific.
dreadpiraterobert0
The Coop Prison....
There was a TIL on this a while back on the Thailand chicken coop prison, where you'd be under the coop in the cell and the chicken's droppings would fall on you with no escape.
Everyone commenting said that'd be the grossest smell and torturous.
llcucf80
Too Brutal....
One of the most brutal I ever heard of was that of Robert-Francois Damien. Damien attempted to assassinate King Louis XV in 1757 so he was sentenced to death. Thousands of people showed up to witness the execution... First, the hand he attempted to stab the king with was dipped in ethanol and then lit on fire. Then they took red hot metal pincers and ripped away his calves, quads, pecs, biceps, and triceps. They then poured molten metal into the gaping wounds where his muscles once were. After that, that tied each limb to a horse and made them ride in opposite directions. When it was clear that they weren't pulling hard enough to rip him apart, the soldiers beat Damien's joints with hammers to speed up the process. The entire ordeal lasted over 4 hours.
Bryan15012
"The Jaunt."
While not explicitly for torture, there is a pretty horrific method in a short story called "The Jaunt." Some time in the future, humanity invents a method of instant teleportation. The thing is you need to be knocked out by anesthesia prior to using it. The story goes into the history of the machine where testing on animals and, later on, humans revealed that though the process of teleportation is outwardly instant, the conscious mind of the teleportee experiences billions of years in a white void, alone but for the company of their own thoughts, unable to move, unable to die.
One scientist shoves his wife, awake, into a machine and closes off the end point. He is convicted of murder because, although she is technically still alive, she's screaming somewhere in the ether, alone, for all of eternity.
bumholez
Bamboo honeymoon.....
Bamboo honeymoon is what I call it. I'm sure they had another name
But essentially you get strapped in a case over bamboo and left there. They will come to feed you and put honey on your body, face and make sure you stay alive, so you feel every inch of your body eaten by animals and insects, while the bamboo is growing into your rear end.
It sometimes took up to 40 days for prisoners to die, when I remember correctly. And this is nonfictional.
I cant come up with anything worse, really.
Tkoile_fuzz
Poop...
GiphyScaphism....
They leave you in a tub of water, constantly feed you so that you keep on pooping. You end up covered in your own poop until your body starts getting devoured by the parasites which appear within your poop.
SlayzorHunter
