Women (or gay men for that matter), have you ever found yourself in a life and death situation, and thought to yourself: Damn, I'm not sure if I'll be able to concentrate enough to survive this nearly fatal encounter, because that man's ass is just so fine looking in those jeans? Is this a valid concern that goes through your head often?
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But the question is still valid.
Yes and no. I have been so distracted by a guy that I can't concentrate. And sometimes, I focus that distraction on "he's sooooo cute!" But usually, it is a spiritual quality...a desire for him to act a certain way...rather than a physical quality that is distracting me.
I read historical novels. Girls in those books tend to be more like what I just described...the thought of him rather than the look of him...is the danger.
I do have a friend who met her husband when she was so struck by his good looks that she walked into a palm tree. (In her defense, he is gorgeous. ;-)
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And, I could see it being a distraction when you're talking work-a-day level stuff. Heck, when you're talking about the hum-drum, it's probably a very welcome distraction. But as you progress up the scale towards, real life and death scenario, I would expect that such distractions would at some point fall away. It's probably at a different point for every person, but I'd still expect it to disappear before you get to the life and death scenario.
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It sounds like a clunky use of an actual romance thing, which is that the relationship is the main story and everything else is secondary. This sometimes causes writers to do stuff like that, where the romance is getting emphasized in a situation where the emphasis should logically be on something else.
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I *do* think, from what people have told me, that in very intensely dangerous and scary moments, you can have what would seem to be inappropriate thoughts flash through your mind, and I do imagine you might *notice* and even reflect for a moment on someone's good looks. But if, in the scene, the person completely gets distracted from the danger, that seems hard to believe.
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