Something about…
In the hall outside her room is some doctor, a woman in a white coat holding a clipboard. She has, it looks like, long dark hair twisted into the shape of a little black brain on the back of her head. She’s not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin. A pair of black-framed glasses are folded and sticking out of her chest pocket.
Is she in charge of Mrs. Mancini, I ask.
The doctor looks at the clipboard. She unfolds the glasses and slips them on and looks again, the whole time saying, “Mrs. Mancini, Mrs. Mancini, Mrs. Mancini…”
She keeps clicking and unclicking a ballpoint pen in one hand.
I ask, “Why is she still losing weight?”
The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor’s ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the firm fleshy edge, the little dark hood at the top, all the smooth contours, coiled and channeling you to the tight darkness inside, well, more women would wear their hair down.
- from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (on Amazon)
Fantastic novel on every front.
But regarding the topic at hand…. Agreed? or No? I find there is something supremely sensual about a woman’s ear. Photographically speaking, ears can make or break a photo. I’ve taken photos that, in reviewing them, they were near to complete perfection but they’ll never be posted because the ears weren’t sensuous enough for a certain image or they were diametrically opposed to what that particular image was trying to convey. Most often in what I shoot, though, the ear is neatly just out of view or… right there. 
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