I don't disagree with you. I think it's one aspect of Eric Close's characters that he's so perfectly WASPy that he simply doesn't exude much sensuality. It's not there in any role I've seen him in which makes it strange to declineandfall that some of us are so attracted to him. I can't completely explain it myself.

It's the main reason I had doubts about anyone's ability to successfully slash him with Danny (or anyone), without warping Martin's personality, as I see it. I've seen those that warped, and one that came close to remaining true to the way I see his character as played by Close. But that story was mere attraction, not any real sensuality.

Why do I find Close so attractive? I suspect there's something in my white middle class background that says this is the kind of guy I should take home to the parents, then marry. Good genes. Handsome. Calm. No emotional storms, even if he does intensely focused really well.

He's so very internalized in each of his characters, even when going through the hell of Now and Again that he's "safe" in a way the teenager in me finds ... well, safe. :-)

Panting passion, sweating between the sheets, fast sex in a skyscraper stairwell? Just don't really see it with the way he plays the roles he chooses.

I'd like to be wrong, of course, hence my pleasure in the really good slash with his characters, rare though it is.