What comes first: sexual attraction, physical attraction or emotional attraction (love)?
However, it also could be the case that one starts to imagine what the other looks like and forms sexual attraction from that. It gets iffy.
For some people also, they may say that fell in love with someone's personality and later started to appreciate the physical attributes of the person. I suppose this is totally possible, but again, I imagine this is a rare instance. One may also say the subsect of people, demisexuals, are an exception to sexual attraction coming first as well.
However, I think for most there is a small subconscious sexual attraction that happens at first sight. I believe it's just how the brain works. The sexual attraction is there, but it is then made up further via personality which can either seal the deal or repulse.
If it were a race, sexual attraction wins almost always-- it can happen in a matter of seconds, while emotional attraction/love takes anywhere from minutes to years. As many things in this world, it's not theoretically impossible to have emotional attraction before sexual attraction, but I suspect it's quite rare.
It's not very romantic thinking that sexual attraction is faster than emotional attraction, but I guess that's just how the world works
Is it possible to fall in love with a man in that way, if you are not sexually attracted to him/her?
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