Women and paintings

Sometimes women ask me "what kind of woman do you like?" and I am never sure if they mean looks, personality or both.

For me, personality affects looks and vice versa. People who may be "pretty" by visual standards can still strike me as ugly if their attitude is awful and their behavior is assanine and selfish.

Most women seem to think that men like women, solely based on looks alone. I can't speak for all men, but that's not the case for me. 

When you go to malls, airports, any crowded place, you'll always see dozens or hundreds of women that attract your (visual) attention. But other than their look, what do we really know about them? 

Even if we meet a woman who is super pretty, given that there are millions like her, wouldn't we eventually get bored with that visual appearance?

When we buy art or a painting, we also do it for our visual pleasure. And although we may always appreciate the painting, we get used to it until we won't even notice it anymore.

I believe the same to be true for women. 

Just today at the airport, I easily saw 30-40 women that I'd find (sexually and visually) attractive. Obviously, even if we ignore that they'd all have to find me attractive too, what could I possibly do with all those women? Take them home, put them in our barn behind glass and store them like art? And even if I did or could, wouldn't I get "full" of looking at them the way I do with food?

Of course this is a constant battle between logical rationality and primal emotions like lust or desire, but I really think it's quite interesting how the changes on earth have intensified these emotions.

80 years ago, you wouldn't see so many women, ergo, you would never be so tempted. 

But now? You can easily "overeat" visually.

I do see some similarities to paintings. I bought maybe 2 dozen of them on my trip and it took me easily 1-2 hours to pick out all of them. I compared them by motive, quality of craft, etc. 

It's the same if I would be in a store for women (if that existed). I would compare them by hair, eyes, unique quirks like say a bump in the bone of her nose, etc. But it would literally be impossible for me to pick just one and say "this is my favorite". 

There are just so many aspects that make people unique. Looks can be one, but everyone has looks. Good looks, bad looks, average looks, but always looks. 

So looks can only hold my attention for a limited time. 

Yes, in times of those "swipe" apps, looks are usually the first impression, but they easily stop impressing me if the person underneath the look is not interesting or has a terrible attitude. 

It's the less tangible things that make me like someone or makes me want to know them well. Like when someone would have traits that seem to contradict each other at first, such as being a vegetarian, but enjoying hunting or being a wildly kinky person, but with very strict standards towards monogamy. 

So maybe it's good that women are not paintings. The paintings I bought in 2018 to sell are all still with me (except for a few I gave to family members as a gift) because I didn't want to sell them (at least not for the price I was being offered). They still give me joy when I look at them. 

Probably a barn full of women, kept as visual pleasure would no doubt do the same. But aside from the absurdity and impossibility of it, I think it would just be so much harder to even find the right kind of women that are both pleasing to the eye, but more importantly hold "long term" inner value.