Asexual Awareness Week : prompts and discussion

[kahuna_burger]

So I missed posting this on the weekend, but this week is Asexual Awareness Week, which promotes understanding of asexual, aromantic and demisexual individuals. While I don't personally fall into any of those catagories, I do think awareness of the variety of human conditions is a good thing, both as people in general and as writers

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[guineamania]

So this is very close to my heart and I thank you for posting this. It was a very hard time for me before I because aware of Asexuality as a concept.

I am a heteroromatic asexual and my best definition for how I feel is aversion to sex. I would never do it, but I see why it is a thing people who want to do. How I often explain it as it is like being a vegetarian, like someone would choose not to eat meat for their own reasons I choose not to have sex.

But before I knew this was an actually thing ... I thought there was something wrong with me and believed that I wasn't as mature as my friends and there would come a time where I would suddenly be sexually attracted to people. It never came. It was tumblr actually that opened my eyes to this idea and reassured me that I wasn't broken in anyway.

Anyway yeah, this was just a long way of saying. I am asexual and if there is anyone on her that thinks they might be ace or just needs someone to ask these questions to then I am more than happy to help. Just drop me an email at g.smith7991@gmail.com.

(P.S - Just to show how underknown stuff like this is ... spellchecker corrected heteroromantic to monochromatic)