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[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 23 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I've said this many times, but in the conservative Christian environment I grew up in "asexuality" was encouraged and rewarded.

This is being caused by liberal parents harassing their kids because they aren't sexually maturing fast enough. They think something's wrong with their kid if they aren't having sex by Junior year. I do think there is an aspect of homophobia to that as well, if your child is 17 and not having sex they must be gay. So obviously push them into straight sex as hard as you can or force them to come out. Like Eddie Monsoon telling Saffy to come out as a lesbian "so I don't have to keep explaining you to my friends."

I think all of those stats about anxiety and "tension at home" are likely accurate. Asexuality is not an orientation though.

[–]Shales123 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Asexuality is not an orientation though.

I do know two women who've told me that they've never experienced sexual attraction. They're not TQ+ attention seeking weirdos, it's just how they're wired

[–]orangina5 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

asexuality is not a biological thing though. not everything needs a biological thing. everyone is trying to shove their useless, made up garbage into the "born this way" essentialism that we legitimized. if you're an "asexual homosexual" or "asexual heterosexual" then thats not a sexual orientation since it just describes your sexual orientation. and the women you know are absolutely 100% lying to you. they have much infighting and many factions. that's why they call it a "spectrum". There isnt a single true "asexual". theyre "asexual" but have thought about men..that makes them straight. or gay. they then seperate into asexuals who infight and attack because they're nymphomaniacs and cant stop having sex but dont like romance or dating. then there are the ones who have no sexual attraction but love dating and romance and it divides into 900 other categories.

again, we simply dont care. they have nothing to do with us and theyre not a sexual orientation. it's like calling "off" a television channel or bald a type of hairstyle. it's not biological and good for them. there are maybe 90000 different types of descriptors of sexuality similar to asexuality. "demi sexuality" or "sapio sexual" is closer to them than having that precious, precious, precious, precious, precious access to the label "sexual orientation". That category is worth more than gold to them hence why they get so psychotic and homophobic when they end up crashing into a wall of logic that wont let them pass.

[–]usehername 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

everyone is trying to shove their useless, made up garbage into the "born this way" essentialism that we legitimized.

Does this mean you don't believe LGB people are born that way, or just that everyone's hopping on the bandwagon, or both? Genuinely curious.

[–]orangina5 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i think we're "born this way" but there's a massive surge in "validity" if you turn something into some essentialist, biological reality. Gay males literally have brains physically different from that of heterosexual males. I dont think they chose that. But you never see a stable asexual community. They just want to use our infrastructure and community and "stabilize" themselves at our expense. Sexual orientation is a very serious category that determines a lot about you politically, socially, where you fit in with your culture, your circumstances. And yeah, you're "born that way" but if you allow asexuality in there, then you allow the "demisexual", "sapiosexual" and the 600 other narcissistic labels in there as well. Theyre not trying to be your friends. Theyre going to turn everything into a shit show to indulge their narcissism. They just dont want eyerolls when you say, "i cant help it. im just attracted to smarter men. im "born that way".