A schadenfreudal orgasm.

Feb 18, 2009 19:12

Delightful.

Author's Note: This lengthy diatribe was inspired by a sf-drama post -- a forum I do not attend, nor do I desire becoming invested in -- which elicited a severe twitch of irritation within me. I, very reluctantly, said nothing. After all, why would I, somebody who devotes massive amounts of their time into Dare-I-Say-PC research, ever want to ( Read more... )

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cruelbitch February 19 2009, 15:27:29 UTC
Unrelatedly, don't forget the uncanny fixation with the nebulous g-spot within straight relations. Stimulating a woman, after all, must be internal; it's natural, you see, far more natural than that "prostate" thing."What exactly is the line between asexual and someone with a very low sex drive? In a sense, I believe it's similar to how I don't really feel there's the 'natural' homosexual and the 'natural' heterosexual. I don't think that many asexuals are pure 100% bona fide asexuals that have no desire whatsoever, but many probably have little sexual desire or are more autosexual. They probably get sexual arousal, but don't want other people to really take care of it, and don't see it as a means to engage in something they're not interested in, and deal with people's attitudes on the subject that they are not interested in. The entire culture of sex must be so off-putting to asexuals."
You've got it covered perfectly here."I admit, I'd know more what it's like for a woman to be asexual and the resulting stigma and obsession with 'fixing' her (or turning everything she says into something she doesn't mean) and 'finding' things with their confirmation biases, but I don't know much about the stigma a man would face. I'm trying to think."
I've known more male asexuals than female ones, oddly. I wouldn't suggest their discrimination is lesser or worse, but it's certainly a unique genre of loathing. They face similar pathologising as women do, but face less permissibility -- after all, within patriarchal parameters, women are natural receptacles, are notoriously "harder to please", and more prone to frigidity. Men, on the other hand, are expected to be abundant in !TESTOSTERONE!, which is automatically affiliated with aggression and lust (and interestingly, this invokes to our past discussion about how violence and sex are entwined, to the point where the violence is invisible). So, men are more likely to be defaulted into "obviously homosexual" status, whereas women are more likely to be categorized in terms of abuse or dysfunction. But this is only anecdotal.

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