Asexuality

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Why does this exist?

I'm just asking, not to be rude, but how can someone not be attracted sexually? all my friends are sexually active, my classmates etc. are sexually active. (PS: not all of them have had sex, but they have sex drive.) How does it feel not to have any sex drive?

I hear a lot of people say that their asexuality is part of their autism but I haven't read anything yet that indefinitely proves a correlation between it and autism/ASD.

Anyway their probabably not going to look in the love and dating section if they're asexual.

Apparently the probability of being asexual is higher amongst those with AS and autism, although I'm not sure how that was found out. And I'm asexual, and it's quite hard to describe what it's like. To me, sex is just something that doesn't interest me, and I find the idea of having it myself a little repulsive at best. I can't really think of any better way to desribe it than that, unfortunately, as being uninterested in sex affects me emotionally about as much as being uninterested in shortwave radio would affect someone else.

From what I've heard, not every aspie is asexual. There's just a higher incidence in the AS population. I'm not sure of a lot about it, like how strict the definition is or what it's like. But I think it should be respected. It must be hard because there's so much pressure and emphasis on sexuality, and it's everywhere from people's general interactions to entertainment and media.

I've heard that aspies normally have stronger sexual argues, mine are certainly stronger than average.

Does asexuals also dislike kissing and passionate touching, or is it only that they can't stand SEXUAL attraction?

I'd think that someone who doesn't have a sexual drive is unhealthy...physically, I mean. I know that there are certain things that can lower it. But as for asexuality...I don't know. Maybe it just grosses some people out. *shrug*

A lot of Aspies simply don't understand themselves too well, or develop interests or come to understand their own emotions later than others. There could be either a biological/genetic or psychological component to it, I don't know. So I think asexuality is yet another feature that's consistent with AS, but that doesn't mean that all Aspies are going to be asexual. There's nothing wrong with asexuality, but I think that it gets outgrown at some point for most folks. Everybody starts out in the world as asexual anyway.

Having read the comment from our only asexual respondent, I think it's just another place on the human sexuality spectrum... rare, but not unhealthy, just different. Sound familiar?

Probably selected against evolutionarily speaking, but so's autism...

Seems to me it would make some things much easier. Other things more perplexing.

Are asexual people subliminally persuaded by advertising the way sexual people are? Or are they free of all that BS?

^^ I believe I do find this very interesting. ^^ Perhaps one way of considering the way this feel to be sexual is the following. For instance, if youare only atracted to one gender, (in this example, let us say you are female and are attracted to females), then you are not attracted to males. We could say that their attraction to males is switched off. Then to be asexual is simply not to be attracted to both genders I believe. ^^ For instance, if the individual is homosexual, then their attraction to females is switched off, yet the attraction for males is switched on.

^^ Then, when asexual the attraction to both is switched off.

^^ I am very sorry if this is silly of me however.

I certainly believe there is no wrong with this at all. ^^

I don't think asexuality has anything to do with low or high-functioning aspergers either, only as a person. Hovewer i'm "Mature" when it comes to sexuality, i have felt that since i was around 6-7, that i had an active sex drive.