Skin imperfections

We are not made equal. Guys may have quite a number of them and it can be all right, or even attractive. Certain scars mainly make them look tough and rough, men who may not be old, but have lived a lot.

On the other hand, you guys want perfect, milky young skin on us. This is of course understandable, I wrote numerous times about why you guys are almost exclusively attracted by our display of fecundity (aka sexiness, which includes youth), while we ladies have a more sophisticated palate about men.

But are all skin imperfections unsexy on women?

Of course, scars are. There is no sexual value for women in displaying the consequences of either diseases of past fights. We are supposed to be healthy and protected by you guys so that scar which makes you interesting makes us unsexy.

I will also take cellulites off the table as it symbolises two no-nos, being fat and overweight - although of course there are young women of normal weight who are afflicted by it. But yes, most overweight girls have what is called baby fat, the skin remains nice and tight, and most fit ladies are exempt of cellulites. Now, fitness is a modern obsession (I should write a post about the ideal of beauty and its evolution over time), but youth has always been attractive - although not as much as today. If you look at Titian's work, and even Rubens's, you see a lot of what we would call today overweight women and yes, many do seem to be affected by cellulites. In a world of scarce resources, skinniness was dime a dozen and having some fat reserves meant increased fertility so increased sexiness.

I will of course eliminate also rides and other signs of aging. Also warts, very unsexy because potentially contagious.

But what about small moles? I don't have any but I sometimes see them on other women and I find most of them sexy. They attract the eyes towards a face or a body and create a point of interest (although why wouldn't the eyes, lips and nipples be enough as points of interest beats me). In French they are called grains of beauty and a century ago (and even longer) classy women would add some on their face or the visible part of their chest and it was considered beautiful. I was sometimes tempted to add one because I am attracted by old-style classic elegance. Not really when I'm in the nude, I hope I still have more interesting points of attraction in such case, but what about when wearing a very low-cut evening dress? You can see the shape of the breasts, you would like to see more but the nipples remain stubbornly hidden. Wouldn't a well-placed small mole become a point of attraction, a promise of what you would enjoy seeing if that damn dress was lowered just an inch or so?
And what about freckles? I was very much afflicted by them in my childhood. Being blonde in a part of the country where most people are dark skinned meant that in summer I was mocked by all my colleagues. They would disappear in winter but as we didn't use much (or any) sunscreen at the time summertime was nightmarish for me. I still get them a bit on my shoulders and, very faintly, on my upper chest if I don't pay attention (not on my face, as I always protect it) but they are but a small reminder of what was a real complex when I was 10 or 12 yo. They will be visible on my shoulders in a summer dress but quite faded and I am convinced that nobody will even notice them when I'm naked and they will all but disappear in a couple of weeks if I stop exposing my shoulders to the sun.

And it seems that there are guys who actually enjoy them. I hope there are some, they are so closely correlated with red hair and red-haired women are very sexy.

Then there are of course tattoos. I will not delve into those as they deserve their own topic. But I do find some, especially small and discreet, quite attractive. On the lower back, above the ankle (I almost always wear an ankle chain, so why not a tattoo).... I am indeed considering getting a couple, I sometimes wear temporary ones and I think they are cool. Nothing major, maybe indeed some tiny ones on the lower back and ankle, plus one on the chest, only half visible but promising when wearing a low-cut dress and one on the pubis, on one side, only visible when I'm in the nude or a very skimpy bathing suit.

So what do you think of skin imperfections on women? Which ones do you find ugly, acceptable or sexy?

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