Weird thread. I think many who say they imagine their model as sneaker etc. are just as weird as those worrying about the man tripod.
I agree with Bailey, you fall in love for the time you are photographing whatever you shoot. In my case i fall in love with the band, others the car, others the naked model. Love involves sexual attraction, titillation etc. and it is fine to acknowledge it, but love is more than that.
Using "love" as motivation is fine. Crossing the line to "lust" where attraction and titillation are the only factors controlling you is the worry, and becoming inappropriate is the problem this causes.
Also look in reverse of this, models do make plays for photographers. Never happened to me in my single years tho.
That's it! I'm booking a model. Knowing my luck it'll be Nora Batty that turns up.