Reading Is Sexy. But Is It Sexy For You?

I am trying to get my brain around something.

Why is Reading so Sexy?

Looking over at a shelf in my study, I can see I am surrounded by books. Here's a few of what's been read in the last month or so:

Age of Turbulance by Alan Greenspan

One Piece Volume 4 Manga by Eiichiro Oda

A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson

Einstein by Walter Isaacson

Blink by Malcom Gladwell

So let's see here- we have Economic Philosophy meets AutoBiography, A Japanese Comic Book, A Science Cosmology, A Biography and a Sociology book. Pretty Dry Stuff.

Some would even say b-o-r-i-n-g.

But it's not. Reading is Sexy. I mean REALLY Sexy.

I am not sure why. I am not a psychologist or anyone in that field. But I do have a theory.

Reading is intimate.

It shuts out all the world and television and gameshows and job stress and self obsessing and money and diet and family and automobiles and shopping and planning and measuring and reflecting and comparing and laundry and working and on and on and on.....

It's just YOU and the book.

And there is a connection. Deep. Piercing and Stripped Bare.

I promise you I cried and laughed at least once while I read all of those boring books I listed above. But it was still Sexy.

And I am a boring heterosexual guy in a committed relationship so I decided to read to my partner to see if it was Sexy. It was.

And what about simply watching her read by herself. Was that Sexy for me? You bet it was (and is).

It seemed almost as if the act of reading and not the material or the company was what made it Sexy. Not what I was expecting.

And I am afraid this is all I have for you. No answers or insight.

So here is the question:

Is Reading Sexy for You? Please tell me your thoughts!