Red lentils I just cooked soft with lemon grass, coriander, cumin, and a dry sherry taste suspiciously meat-like and I can't figure out why. Delicious though
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My main curiosity was that I wondered if someone out there had finally discovered Kallmann's syndrome and written it into an episode, but no.
So, sorry if I sound like a moron here, but if asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction and not a lack of libido, wouldn't the lack of libido come with not being sexually attracted to anyone? I'm legitimately curious now because this is all causing me to think I've been misinterpreting asexuality and I don't want to do that.
It's possible to feel sexually aroused without having that arousal directed at a specific person, or even at people-in-general. Some asexuals report that they occasionally get horny, masturbate, and come, without ever feeling the need to involve another person.
Nope, the two are often related, yet distinct things.
Asexuals may experience arousal or they may not. Some masturbate and some don't, some are fetishists (they find arousal from objects or situations, for instance, but not people -- some might even become aroused by people in certain situations but still have no desire to engage in sexual activities with anyone). I think it's more common among asexuals to not experience arousal and/or to not feel the need to masturbate than among the general public, and that asexuals might tend to be more likely ok with that fact and not see it as something that needs to be fixed though I'm not sure of the numbers there.
One popular way of helping someone understand it is if you yourself are heterosexual or gay -- there is a population of the people that you generally do not find sexually attractive based on their sex alone. We would feel toward all people the same way you feel, sexually, toward those that you don't find yourself attracted to in general because of your orientation
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My main curiosity was that I wondered if someone out there had finally discovered Kallmann's syndrome and written it into an episode, but no.
So, sorry if I sound like a moron here, but if asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction and not a lack of libido, wouldn't the lack of libido come with not being sexually attracted to anyone? I'm legitimately curious now because this is all causing me to think I've been misinterpreting asexuality and I don't want to do that.
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Asexuals may experience arousal or they may not. Some masturbate and some don't, some are fetishists (they find arousal from objects or situations, for instance, but not people -- some might even become aroused by people in certain situations but still have no desire to engage in sexual activities with anyone). I think it's more common among asexuals to not experience arousal and/or to not feel the need to masturbate than among the general public, and that asexuals might tend to be more likely ok with that fact and not see it as something that needs to be fixed though I'm not sure of the numbers there.
One popular way of helping someone understand it is if you yourself are heterosexual or gay -- there is a population of the people that you generally do not find sexually attractive based on their sex alone. We would feel toward all people the same way you feel, sexually, toward those that you don't find yourself attracted to in general because of your orientation ( ... )
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