asexuality

[Su-Yin]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/...509924438.html

this is something new to me...ive never came close nor heard of anyone being asexual
anyone here asexual or know anyone who is?

Let's talk about sex - or maybe not. For those who identify themselves as asexual, there's nothing quite as dull as the pleasures of the flesh, writes Deborah Smith
Like many young men, Michael enjoys cricket, parties and reading. But having sex, says the 22-year-old university student, is about as much fun as "watching paint dry".

Social pressure to date girls during his teens meant that he ended up having sexual relationships with half a dozen young women. "But it wasn't very fulfilling," he recalls. And three years ago he realised he did not want to have sex ever again.

Michael, from Launceston, well remembers the first time he put a label to his sexual orientation. Rumours were circulating that he was interested in men, because he had stopped dating girls. "Are you straight or gay?" a female friend asked him at a party. "I said, 'I'm neither. I'm asexual'," he recalls.

Michael may not be the rarity most would think. Some surveys of sexual behaviour indicate there could be almost as many people who are asexual as are gay. But in a society where sex is all pervasive, asexual people tend to be invisible.

This sexually inactive group could include people from happily celibate nuns to those who are too sick, poor or unattractive to form a relationship, and who do not want to pay for sex or have a casual fling. Others may fear intimacy or have been put off sex by repressive parental attitudes.

But the group is likely to include asexual people who simply don't want any sex, says Richters. "It seems clear to me there is a huge range in how interested people are in sex, from those who hardly have it to those who are biting the wall if they don't get it every day. Most are in the middle.".

[KillerGremlin]

I've heard of asexuals before..although the term is more fitting in Biology class describing small micro organisms that reproduce with themselves.

5 entries found for asexual.
a·sex·u·al ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-sksh-l)
adj.
1. Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless.
2. Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.
3. Lacking interest in or desire for sex.

However, seeing as how our society has no problem grouping everybody, asexual is a logical category. Although, we all know that no one is by definition asexual. People have a sex drive, and if you don't, there is something wrong with you, ie depression or mental health issues. Not having sex because you're ugly or something.....that's not really asexual. But, the definition works I suppose. Stupid media labeling things with fancy words. It's downright annoying.

[DimHalo]

I had a couple of friends in high school who labeled themselves as asexual. One of them has since come out of the closet (he's gay). But in general, it is just that they had no interest in sex at all.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by jeepnut's slave

But in general, it is just that they had no interest in sex at all.

But wouldnt Asexual mean you can reprodice another human being on your own?

[Swan]

Smurfs are asexual.

[bobcat]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

But wouldnt Asexual mean you can reprodice another human being on your own?

yeh that's wot i thought

[Dyne]

Asexual? Maybe it's just a percent of people who have a sense of humour, because that's damn funny.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

But wouldnt Asexual mean you can reprodice another human being on your own?

Look at killer gremlins definitions.

It means both.

And it would suck to be that way. And I agree with Killer...it's just not right. One of the fundamental characterstics of a species or living being is reproducing. If you don't want to do that, than you have some sort of disorder.

Yet it's amazing how it works...by not wanting to reproduce, you most likely won't, and thus your defective genes are slowly but surely removed from the human race, and can't be passed on.

[Happydude]

Originally Posted by deejzguy

Smurfs are asexual.

these people are weird...i can't understand how they could not like sex

/me shrugs

oh well...not my problem.

[DeathsHand]

I've labeled myself as asexual before, but that's moreso half-jokingly because I just don't like people in general...

[Dyne]

Speaking of which, whatever happened to toaster-sexuals.

[Stray_Bullet]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Yet it's amazing how it works...by not wanting to reproduce, you most likely won't, and thus your defective genes are slowly but surely removed from the human race, and can't be passed on.

It may be a human trait, or it may be human choice.

Traits have an affect on decisions, but they do not solely determine them. "Asexuality," which shouldn't have the modern definition due to complications with clarity, will... "live."

Y'made a decent point, at least.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Happydude

these people are weird...i can't understand how they could not like sex

* Happydude shrugs


oh well...not my problem.

5 entries found for asexual.
a·sex·u·al ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-sksh-l)
adj.
1. Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless.
2. Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.
3. Lacking interest in or desire for sex.

Technically smurfs can be categorized as asexual for all of these reasons.

Originally Posted by Dyne

Speaking of which, whatever happened to toaster-sexuals.

And whatever happened to the infamous trisexual?

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

It may be a human trait, or it may be human choice.

Traits have an affect on decisions, but they do not solely determine them. "Asexuality," which shouldn't have the modern definition due to complications with clarity, will... "live."

Y'made a decent point, at least.

Human trait or human choice, that human is not working like a human should work.

Any human who never reproduces has effectively eliminted his genes from the human gene pool, taking care of the problem. I just always found that concept interesting.

[Stray_Bullet]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Any human who never reproduces has effectively eliminted his genes from the human gene pool, taking care of the problem.

My point was that it doesn't take care of the "problem."