Blind people describe what beauty means to them

'I don’t think vision really plays that big of a role in beauty, I think it’s the whole experience'

There is a misconception that it doesn’t matter what a blind person’s partner looks like because they can’t see them.

But that’s not the case.

“I have to be attracted to someone,” a blind man has explained.

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Along with three other blind people, some of whom were born blind, others who became blind later, the man explains what beauty means to him in a video for Cut.com.

“I think there’s a perception among sighted people that blind people don’t give a s*** about what other people look like because we can’t see them,” he said.

“I think I’m pretty shallow just like everyone else,” a blind woman named Cindy added.

In the video, the participants explain that looks are still important to them - they take pride in their own appearances, and one man says he always tries to be “very presentable.”

Mac says people tell him he’s attractive and he knows he’s slim and has soft hair, but he wouldn’t know what to compare that attractiveness to if he saw himself in a mirror.

They also discuss how they ascertain whether someone is beautiful.

“Other senses kick in,” one man who became blind about nine years ago explains. “The tenderness, the smoothness, I guess you could say the shape.”

“There might be some times when I give someone a hug and be like: ‘That feels like she might have a nice figure,’ but I'm not going to, like, feel her up because that wouldn't be appropriate,” Mac says.

He also admitted he loves it when people tell him his wife is “gorgeous,” “a looker” and “a hot one.”

One of the first intimate things he did with his wife was take her hand, and, he says, “I liked how it fit with mine.”

The video has evoked an emotional reaction, with people commenting “LOVE THIS” and “That’s actually really cute.”

There are certainly messages we can all take from the video.

As one of the blind men said: “I don’t think vision really plays that big of a role in beauty, I think it’s the whole experience.”