Asexuality

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Has anyone found a strict adherence (mental and otherwise) to asexuality to be preferable?

Also, can anyone name some famous asexuals?

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Was torn between the last two choices. Definitely have a desire, not so sure if my faith counts as a religion. Seemed safer to go with the absolute truth.

LOL. Well, there were six choices, I didn't think it would matter, but when you moved my thread one of the choices mysteriously got lost.



(I may have accidentally left one off myself in the first place.)


EDIT: The sixth choice was something like "No, I am able to handle the emotional problems."

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I am not asexual, and I will not date someone who is.

Tim

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How would the 'Yes, it helps me fulfill some philosophical principle(s) I have' option work? You can't will away sexual desires and a sexual drive because you don't believe in it. You can resist and hate the urges sure, but the term asexuality refers to not having them at all in the first place.

What that is is antisexuality. Wiki it.

Asexual people aren't asexual by choice, any more than heterosexual people are heterosexual by choice, or homosexual people are homosexual by choice.

You can't choose to be asexual. You *can* choose to be celibate, but that's not the same thing. (In the same way that not eating because you're fasting is different than not eating because you just aren't hungry.)

So, what is a person who CHOOSES against what they're inclinations are? Other than confused.

You can't 'choose' not to have the inclinations, only not to act upon them. I don't think this has a term though - we can call them 'Deniers'.

No. To act in the opposite. And denial is not really an issue, if you are choosing homosexuality. That term always smells more of trying to hide something. I just mean like choosing what's available to you.

Honestly, I'm not sure that I see sexual preference as more than a matter of aesthetics. I find an attractive male body about as appealing as a female body which is not really to my liking. There is no real arousal involved, but I know that I could handle it, if there was a compelling reason for it. I wouldn't choose to be sexual with someone I was not attracted to, but I probably wouldn't be too bothered by it either.

I think it's possible to have a desire for sex and relieve it through masturbation, thus negating the necessity of a relationship with someone else.

But you're forgetting the human need for the need to socially interact - to be loved, understood, validated, respected etc. Relationships are killing two birds with one stone.

I am total asexual, I think nothing is as useless as sticking body parts together, I dont like body contact, I have no physical attraction to any human body, I do have a libido , but that is going other places


<----Newton was asexy

I was somewhat torn between "have a physical desire" and "against my religion". After all, Judaism is the only organized religion in the world that recognizes the physical enjoyment of sex. However, I was leaning toward the answer about the physical desire.

I have a physical desire for sex.
But i wish i wouldn't

Would make everything more relaxed.

Social interaction doesn't have to involve the romantic/sexual aspect of it, which is what I'm assuming Aylissa meant. I'm heterosexual with asexual tendencies, I've never had sex, and I'm pretty content and happy with just masturbating. As it is, I'm way too picky when it comes to who I'll marry, and most people don't fit the profile of who I'll marry.

Anywho, TMI aside, yeah, you can have friends who love you (in a friendly, non-romantic and non-sexual manner), understand you, validate you, and respect you without it ever growing into something beyond a friendship, and be just fine with self-pleasure only. (:

Jesus H Christ was a famous asexual except for the few times Mary Magdalon f**ked him up the bum with a strap-on made from reeds and a cucumber! That's what the Bible says anyway, just ask the man who wrote it: Dan Brown in 1989.

Jesus sang to Mary- You don't have to put on a red light!
...put on a red light!


Mary was the only one NOT blaspheming when she cried 'Oh Jesus, I'm coming!'