Sexiness implied please.

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Bestie and I were watching the Easter Criminal Minds marathon on Bravo this past weekend and remarked on the marked improvement in Shemar Moore's acting skills. No doubt he is a fine brotha, but I remember seeing him on The Young and The Restless as the handsome Malcolm Winters and watching him act being sexy instead of just being it. He's got it down now (thank you sir!) and we praise the powers that be!

On Soul Train he was a little intolerable. He had been infected by the lip licking disease (LLD) that is passed on from one black man to another simply by watching LL Cool J do his lip routine. Jamie Foxx, Nelly, Chris Brown and a host of other black male Hollywoodans seem to be infected with LLD. I'm not sure when this started, but can it please stop?

You meet a brother, he's cool and what not, you talk and he is interesting, you dance, he's got the moves and then suddenly you get hit with,

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Boy, no.

When did this become sexy? I know we see pictures of all these lips online with copious amounts of lip gloss on them but they are WOMEN'S lips. Are you still trying to get the bit of burger that has been hanging off your lips since you left Mickey Dees? Are you hiding a zit or mouth sore? Is it radar and you're trying to sense if we're compatible? What the hell are you doing?

Maybe some women find it to be sexy, but honestly, at Qalil this is what comes to mind.

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and

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Granted, the second picture might be cute, but we're still not thinking about letting that tongue down our throats. Okay?

So quit with the lip smacking. If your eyes cannot convey what you want to tell me, your slippery ass tongue isn't going to do the trick. LLD is NOT cool.

Are you turned on by guys who like smacking their lips? Do you have a case of the LLD?