Originally posted by Spitman

What authors need to do is identify the qualities that they see in the celebrity, and use them in the story, rather than naming the celebrity. By doing this, readers can use their own imagination to conjure up a picture that goes with the story, and different readers may identify it with quite different images.
I think this is an interesting point. The author should remember that the reader also has an imagination, and that one person's dream girl is another person's hag. For example, Playboy did a survey a few years ago and found that men divide into three pretty even sized groups with regard for their breast-size preference. One third of men like big breasts, one third like small breasts, and one third have no preference.

What this means to me, as an author, is that if I describe a woman as having 36D tits, I have turned off 1/3 of my readers, and if I mention she has a pair of 34A's, I turn off a different third.

To avoid this, lately I have been being non-specific. "She had the face of a super-model and a body built for sin." "The moment I saw her, I wanted her. My dick was like a divining rod, pointing straight at her. She didn't just have curves, she defined curves."

I also have to agree with another of Spitman's points. I also have absolutely no idea what Nikki Cox looks like. Honestly, I never heard of her until this thread. Telling me someone looks like her conjures no images at all.

Bill