What is your sexuality

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To Edenthiel, there is a reason why I put in other. It is for people who are either nonbinary or can't find their option in the poll. You don't need to go on rambling on how you are offended that the first options assume a binary system. By the way sex is not the same as gender, sex is biological and gender is an identity. You could be a biological female (sex) but identify as a demifemale/neuter/trans etc. (gender). I am not going to go out of my way to write fourty options because someone doesn't want me to summarize the non-binary types under other.

it was an "open ended" comment....

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noun: normal; plural noun: normals

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the usual, typical, or expected state or condition.
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Funny thread. Reminds me of some general curiosity threads on my teen forum
Anyways based on those, even though I know I'm still probably too young to label myself, I've come to the conclusion that I am probably asexual.

+1

Hetero and demisexual.

I'm glad more people are asexual. A few years back it wasn't recognised and people would tell me that it's not a sexuality and I haven't worked out if I like guys or girls yet. I also got told it doesn't exist.

I'm demisexual, too

Thank you for your gracious reply explaining your reasons. And I understand that it is your question to be answered, worded however you wish. I assumed you were going for accuracy and so, was merely trying to pass along to you that the sort of categories used aren't really seen as accurate any more. Many polls and questionnaires are switching from gay/straight/bi/asexual to a set of two descriptors as it's much more accurate. Specifically, "What sex/gender are you", and "What sex/gender are the people to whom you are attracted" (typically with a standardized set of four or five choices for each). The labels (such as homosexual) have far too much emotional &/or social baggage & the messiness of self-identity idiosyncrasies (ie MSM vs gay), and so the data is recognized as rapidly losing accuracy.

I really should have worded it better, I apologize.

But for most people it's as simple as being one gender and being attracted to their own, the opposite, both, or none. The amount that don't go by this is pretty small which is why an "other" option is appropriate. I had no idea what your post was even saying, but everyone knows what "homosexual" means. It's just simpler to use what people are familiar to.

I am heterosexual, but I really do not have much interest in sex in general.

I'm basically gay but have no interest in sex. I've never slept with a woman my entire life and had sex once, about 16 years ago.

My sexuality: I'm sexy and I know it

I'm heterosexual.

Edenthiel, I would rather have a poll system where people could add their own answers if they didn't find a choice to satisfy them. I have experienced websites with such systems however, I didn't see any options on here for something of the like.

Obviously this is an unscientific poll, but at the moment asexual is the second most represented identity behind culturally dominant heterosexual. This does not surprise me, I think there may be a correlation for higher prevalence of asexuality among autistics than the general population.

I myself am what I call pseudo-asexual, sex is not one of my interests but I'm not exactly turned off by it. I've had sex with a few women at their request, but it's kind of just meh for me, I'd rather talk about common interests than basically do a work out with another person. It's pleasurable, but a lot of other things are pleasurable to me too and they don't require a litany of illogical interactions and power games to experience. I'm also kind of meh about modern culture and perhaps that is involved, I get sick of seeing sex pumped everywhere as if it's the end all be all of life-- true, it's currently needed for procreation of the species, but it's not something that's required daily for every member of the species for the species to survive and yet that's how it's marketed. I've also been abused by both sexes in the past and that may play a subconscious role in my asexuality, but it's not something I've actively thought about in over a decade.

I do have romantic feelings though, I can become attached to people and it's a powerful feeling, but being meh about sex as a male is a nail in the coffin for that to happen since culture pumps virility as the lynch pin to male relationship value. I've gotten over it though and realize I'm in the wrong place and wrong time to fully experience my humanity, but such is the case for a lot of people.

I had to look this up to figure out what demisexual was. So let me get this straight if you have a very sexy women dancing naked infront of you, you wouldn't have any kind of...ahhh.... urge's?