Environment and proximity can trigger sudden intimacy

Evidence

Feeling full from the heavy carbo-loaded lunch, Mario and I collapsed on the water bed once it was made. We were resting and talking for a bit when suddenly, out of nowhere, Mario started to kiss me. The sex vibes in Ginger’s boudoir must have turned him on and I just happened to be there. In my opinion he was a god, but I was so surprised to be getting laid by the boy who turned down Madonna that I left my body and hovered above us, watching myself having sex with him like I was in my own porno movie. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 232

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The ‘I gave the boy who turned down Madonna what she couldn’t get’ inversion — a middle-aged assistant outranking the world’s biggest star in one man’s bedroom — is a great short-story kernel.
• XREF: connects to: Eye contact functions as a form of physical proximity between strangers.; A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience; Repeated shared presence converts strangers into approchable acquaintances over time — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1014 (+1 more)

Related

• Sexual environments themselves can kindle arousal independent of the people present. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience #exemplifies (0.85)
• Eye contact functions as a form of physical proximity between strangers. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Repeated shared presence converts strangers into approchable acquaintances over time #exemplifies (0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1014