Talk:Season 7/@comment-75.38.71.7-20130725041735/@comment-68.70.59.215-20130725130826

In the last episode of season 3, Sheldon told Penny that the reason he has such good hearing is because is it something that develops when "one gets beaten up every other day." This may not be an exaggeration. I think that is the reason he does not want to get too physically close to people is because so much of his contact with others was painful. So, given his eidetic memory and inability to forget all that,  he has repressed feelings related to the physical. I think Sheldon is going to have to have absolute trust in someone before he will allow lust to emerge. That should be very interesting - because in other areas of his life: food, ice cream, technology, quantum mechanics, string theory, comic books, sci-fi, he is a man of unashamed appetites.