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LoL kinda running low on space on that one there, eh?
Sure, but there’s still a bit of a drop off in credibility between “people from all over society– and throughout recorded history– have little or no no built in interest in sex/romance” and “small numbers of magical thinking teenagers on a handful of social media platforms believe that RPG magic is real and they have mystical connections to fictional creatures”. It’s not like the field of Human neuropsychology is sparse in examples of individuals who lack “normal” drives toward [whatever].
To be fair multiple people say Otherkin is a thing. Popularity does not mean right.
Asexuals are real, but that still not an argument.
I’m pretty sure that was created by the self-obsessed tumblr narcissists. I don’t care right now.
Asexuality isn’t ‘made up by Tumblr’. It’s a real orientation. Just ask anyone on AVEN and you will probably get an extremely detailed explanation as to why.
Look Tumblr makes up sexualities sometimes I’m not denying that. But they do that to make fun of REAL orientations, and then Tumblr messing around with it overshadows the people with real, valid orientations. Now if someone said ‘my orientation is eggbeater-sexual’ they’re obviously making fun of it. But something like ‘asexual’ should be easy to understand. It’s literally just not experiencing sexual attraction (at least most of the time).
..This is why we need visibility. People don’t take us seriously but it’s not a joke, it’s not a disorder, or the lack of a sex drive, it’s not just not ever having sex, it’s not a black and white issue.
For more information I suggest you visit asexuality.org
Some asexuals are sex repulsed (like me, I find it gross and horrific). Others have no interest in it, some are just bored by it. Some like it but the first thing they think when they meet someone isn’t that they want to ‘do the thing’ with them. It’s possible to do something you don’t want to do or don’t like. Some do it to please their partner, some do it because they’re curious, it’s never because they’re attracted sexually, or they wouldn’t be asexual.
Asexuality is a spectrum. There’s a reason the Kinsey scale had an X on it, y’know.
To sound hip and cool so Tumblr-san will notice them.
I’m sorry, but I don’t quite understand how an asexual can have a big sex drive. Isn’t the whole point that they don’t have sex drives? You say yourself that an asexual is someone who doesn’t want to have sex. How can someone like that be described as having a sex drive? It’s like saying, “They don’t want to, but they want to.”
These people that want to have sex but not relationships, that’s not part of a sexuality, that’s just their preferences. There are a lot of straight romantics, and straight aromantics. But never have I heard a straight person use those terms, or at least not to mean what Tumblr says they mean. And even when they do claim to be romantics, it’s just not always true. It’s actually a pretty big stereotype that straight cis men will claim to be romantics when their not.
But okay, tumblr made or not, I guess aromantic’s not too bad a word. What’s the alternative? Commitment issues sounds a bit too negative, and slut is even more negative… Okay I’ll accept the word. Guess I was just bothered by it’s inclusion, making things a little more confusing, like sexuality even needs to be any more confusing.
And this picture here is combining asexuality and aromanticism, two things many people don’t know exist. But also TOTALLY seperate to each other.
As for how these labels hurt me? I’m asexual. I get lumped in with the fake sexualities. I’m a fad for people to use to make themselves look cool and unique. “Demisexual” is something no two people can tell me means the same thing. And then name of it does not help. That’s the kind of nonsense Tumblr word that is making things a lot harder when educating people on real sexualities. I’ll admit Tumblr is the reason I even know of the word “asexual” and came to realise what I was, but it really made it quite the challenge. Which makes me all the madder. I know that Tumblr COULD have been a nice place where people can discover themselves and share. Because it helped me. And now it’s become something else. It’s too damn depressing.
And sorry for causing your argument on language. And just to get it out there incase anyone was curious, I’m Agendered, Asexual, Romantic, with an astounding sex drive.
SHHHH they’re sleeping with their mouths open. Don’t wake them.
My Little Feminist Shape-Hater: Geometry is Patriarchy.
We have other word for aromance like Anti-social or Sociopath.
That doesn’t sound good to me
If they want the words to become common enough to be added to the dictionary they shouldn’t make up so many different words with differences so subtle that you’ll miss them if you blink.
By that logic no new words would ever get added to the dictionary, which is diametrically opposed to the very spirit of English. Neologism is the beating heart of a professional wordthief language; you might as well demand that German stop inventing new compound words.
That argument only makes sense if these words were common knowledge, and by the rate new words keep getting bumped out they’ll never be.
There are, uh, rather quite a lot of people who like sex but have absolutely no interest in relationships or personal attachments of any sort. This isn’t otherkin territory here, FFS; labels like “aromantic” and “demisexual” are a lot easier to fit in a tweet than “likes pants business but not attachments” and “only interested in pants business with people they have a strong attachment to”.
How the hell does it hurt you that other people want a label for the sake of brevity so they don’t have to recite a whole character bio novel every time they introduce themselves? Let people call themselves what they want to be called, for cryin’ out loud.
@Randomosaur
Asexuality is the 4th sexuality. Out of the 4 that are real. I guess Tumblr does make it hard to know which sexualities are real or made up, but come on! It’s also VERY simple.
Hetero = Opposite sex
Homo = Same sex
Bi = You’re hot, that’s all that matters
A = SO GROSS OH GOD!
Asexuals can have a big sex drive or a small one. They can be the biggest perverts ever. All of that is irelevant though to being asexual. What makes them asexual is not wanting to have sex.
Now, “aromantic”? That’s a made up Tumblr word. Hope this was educational.
I only have a few moments to decide whether the cheer you on or laugh at you and making me use that time on figuring out what the hell you’re even talking about IS JUST RUDE YOU DOPE
An asexual person wouldn’t be one with just a low sex drive. It would be someone without a sex drive at all.
Low sexual drives do exist, I don’t see how you can even question that.
I’d have to agree with you on that, but I don’t think that it’s an attempt to make people think you’re not a pervert.
I think that in almost all cases it’s a psychosomatic condition, rather than a biological deficiency. Something along the lines of convincing yourself that a lack of strong feelings means an inability to feel at all.
Even setting aside the legitimacy of the condition, it’s (inappropriately) used as a way to jump on the sex/gender bandwagon. “Pay attention to me and praise me for my mere existence!” The reality is that it’s similar to saying, “I’m pretty special, I don’t even like soda.”