@kegi Nope, still don't like the idea. It's just too weird.

I have no problem will any people out there who're like that, but I could never consciously imagine a person like that

edited 7th Feb '12 12:32:57 PM by gingerninja666

I hate those tiny buttons, and I especially hate their autocorrect feature, what a drag.

Yeah it's a pain. Though I still don't know how I got by without my iphone.

...right, well at least you corrected yourself there ginger, or else we'd have... words. Especially given your own predilections.

but I see where you're coming from. Monosexuality baffles me, after all.

also, pulling this in here since the edit got lost in the last page.

@Ahra: Ah, right, I've clearly not been describing this right. Again, the asexual person still derives pleasure from this. It is an activity they can still enjoy. They just lack a sex drive.

It's like playing jenga, or something. One partner really enjoys it, the other doesn't really care. they can still play it together, and the partner that doesn't care can still enjoy themselves, but they'll never sit up and think "I want to play jenga" in the way that the other partner will.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:35:32 PM by kegisak

And yet bisexuality does not baffle me, how does that work? How can one be baffling and the other is not?

I'm bad enough with my laptop, which is glued to my hand 24/7!!!

I need to lock myself in a room without an internet connection if I want to get any work done. I can't read unless I'm travelling. I am VERY addicted to technology, and VERY easilly distracted.

The absolute LAST FUCKING THING I NEED IS AN IPHONE!!

@kegi What do you mean I "corrected" myself

edited 7th Feb '12 12:39:07 PM by gingerninja666

I think it's that if you're attracted to one, you can imagine being attracted to the other. I'm attracted to both, so only being attracted to one simply doesn't register with me. I don't know what it's like to not be attracted to something. Well, something human at least.

uh... wrong forum, methinks.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:38:25 PM by kegisak

This that why you don't read much Ginger? Because you're stuck to a computer all the time?

I find asexuality baffling because one the basest instincts is the need to procreate, and if something that requires sexual reproduction is not attracted to ANYTHING in that way, then something is fundamentally wrong with them somehow.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:40:23 PM by UdtheImp

That sounds totally awesome.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:40:43 PM by Bluespade

No, I understand that. I'm pretty sure I'm asexual myself, though with the way people on this forum throw the word around I am generally hesitant to say so. I meant that the relationship itself sounded emotionally abusive with the girl not thinking about what the guy wanted and treating him as a toy. Again, that's the only example that I know of an asexual/sexual person relationship. The sexual person demanding sex thing was just one more way I feel the guy was abused.

^ Why? It means you don't want sex. It doesn't mean anything to you.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:41:49 PM by Arha

So if I was asexual...I wouldn't be lusting after Pinkie's big but in a completely out of control manner?

Or wanting her in the slave girl outfit...or just plain naked?

edited 7th Feb '12 12:42:09 PM by ApplelightLimited

@ginger: I mean if you had left it at, "I don't like it because it's weird to me", the nit's a bit hypocritical because that's essentially the reason that homophobes don't like homo/bisexuality. The way you worded it sounds like you had an actual issue with asexuality. The bit at the end there simply clarifies that it isn't that you don't like it so much as you can't imagine it, which is understandable.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:47:15 PM by kegisak

Honestly, I'm not sure I can find any sexuality baffling...

Asexuality scares me because I feel threatened by it. I'm fascinated by the idea of losing control (yet I would never want to do so myself, hence why I don't get drunk) and the idea that there are people out there who don't have a sex drive that influences their decisions terrifies me.

Again, I'm scared of the concept, not the people. I hate murder, yet would gladly become friends with a murderer

edited 7th Feb '12 12:45:19 PM by gingerninja666

Asexual people are clearly Nietzsche's superman. Unbound by the desire to hit on the hot girl that's way out of their league.

edited 7th Feb '12 12:45:50 PM by Arha

@Arha: Having no sex drive sounds like a legitimately good thing, to me personally. Sexual longing causes a shitload of angst and problems.

...tell me about it.

@Arha: huh... okay, I guess I can see where you're coming from there. I had just sort of thought of it where (given the Tavi/Vinyl situation) Vinyl would be the one who normally propositions it ("Hey Tavi, wanna boink"), and Tavi agrees because she enjoys it, ("Yeah, sure"), but would never really proposition herself, unless she think it'll make Vinyl feel better ("You need to relax... Why don't we get more comfortable?"). Vinyl would still respect Tavi's feelings on it, obviously - there's just going to be times when one party doesn't feel like it and any healthy relationship is going to understand that.

I can see a situation where it's abusive, you're right, but in a situation where the asexual willingly engages in sex despite lack of drive because they know it makes their partner happy, and still enjoys it themselves, seems romantic to me.

True...

edited 7th Feb '12 12:48:09 PM by MousaThe14

I'm outta here.

O...K?

Eh? Did we say something wrong Ginger?

I have very little to add to this conversation, which is good because I need to go do other stuff. In other news, this post served no function at all.

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