While he's answering that, can you explain why you like grapefruit (if you like grapefruit) or don't like grapefruit (if you don't like grapefruit)? Because I t

While he's answering that, can you explain why you like grapefruit (if you like grapefruit) or don't like grapefruit (if you don't like grapefruit)? Because I totally don't get it. :-) "Because I enjoy the sensations it provides" is often the only analysis we can provide for our tastes. Sometimes we can break it down further, and people with unusual tastes are frequently pressed (politely or not) to "explain" their tastes. This is understandable--we're genuinely curious about tastes that differ from our own--but it's also a bit myopic, because we so rarely turn the same unanswerable attitude on our own tastes. Simply because something is common does not make it immune to analysis, and I strongly encourage anyone who wants to ask this kind of question to give a preamble for their own taste in similar matters. So if you're straight and want to ask a gay man, "What is it about the male body that turns you on?" first say, "The thing that makes women attractive to me is..." I have no idea how to answer this: I'm boringly straight and just find the female body inherently attractive. I can appreciate male beauty the way I can appreciate a beautiful building, but there's simply no attraction. I've come to accept that my gay friends are just wired differently from me. I'm not saying "all differences of taste are unanalyzable" but that our legitimate curiousity about other people's tastes should be an opportunity to analyze our own.