First off, I'm demisexual. So I have some experience in the ace community. Just not the experience I need to answer a question that came up yesterday. Which I will get to in a moment
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It doesn't invalidate one's ace membership, so to speak. Asexuals are people who don't experience sexual attraction to other people. That's about the only thing that can accuarately be said about all asexuals. Some are romantic. Some have sex with other people for various reasons. Some don't even like backrubs. Of course, some sexuals do and some don't. That always makes me stop and think, so you want someone else to put their. . . in your. . . but you don't want to touch your own. . . ? But, well, people are different. Of course, some sexual people don't have sex, either, because orientation labels describe inner feelings, not outer behavior.
I'm an aromantic asexual and I do. It feels pleasant and has since I was a little kid. It also doesn't for me have anything to do with sex. There happen to be genitals involved and for a lot of people they have something to do with sex. But. . . I don't assosciate it with sex or other people or fantasies the way I'm given to understand that many sexual people do. (I don't have sexual or romantic fantasies, period). If rubbing my toes felt as pleasant, I'd do that.
It doesn't invalidate one's ace membership, so to speak. Asexuals are people who don't experience sexual attraction to other people. That's about the only thing that can accuarately be said about all asexuals. Some are romantic. Some have sex with other people for various reasons. Some don't even like backrubs. Of course, some sexuals do and some don't. That always makes me stop and think, so you want someone else to put their. . . in your. . . but you don't want to touch your own. . . ? But, well, people are different. Of course, some sexual people don't have sex, either, because orientation labels describe inner feelings, not outer behavior.
I'm an aromantic asexual and I do. It feels pleasant and has since I was a little kid. It also doesn't for me have anything to do with sex. There happen to be genitals involved and for a lot of people they have something to do with sex. But. . . I don't assosciate it with sex or other people or fantasies the way I'm given to understand that many sexual people do. (I don't have sexual or romantic fantasies, period). If rubbing my toes felt as pleasant, I'd do that.
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