Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement

[Tooktheredpill]

Thought this was pretty fascinating:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archiv...nt/254880/

[Don]

The best line ever on Asexuality, starts at 5:28 in the clip

[Elijah Craig]

I thought you were talking about my upcoming autobiography.

[Bob M]

(04-06-2012 06:30 AM)Tooktheredpill Wrote:  Thought this was pretty fascinating:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archiv...nt/254880/

God made some people like that. Not me.

[zeusTHEgoose]

"Instead, I think what we have is a dialogue that fetishizes and celebrates sexuality, and equates it with the sum of our value and relationships."

Man, I wholeheartedly agree with Jay on this quote. I applaud him for being an advocate of what he feels is completely natural for him. It is so difficult to regard sex as anything less than everything in our world today. Glad to know there are some people out there who don't think it's such a big deal.

[lucrezaborgia]

Quote:And imagining how it could be different is something that has the potential to benefit us all. If we stop defining our significant relationships only as those that are romantic or sexual, being single will take on a whole new meaning. If we broaden our emotional focus from the person we share bodily fluids with to the sum of our friendships, acquaintances, and colleagues, our communities will grow stronger. If we stop treating penetrative sex as the be all and end all of physical intimacy, we will experience greater heights of pleasure. And if we can accept that although sex can be ecstatic and affirming and fulfilling, it is not all those things to all people all of the time, we will relieve it of some of its cultural baggage.

Ideally, says Przybylo, we would stop thinking of our sexual histories and desires as fixed and absolute, but rather as something more fluid, which can be dialed up or down, redirected entirely depending on how we feel, who we're with, and our inbuilt biological inclinations.

In other words, you might want to have sex five times this week, or you might not want to have sex at all. Your experience of desire might be intensely physical, or it might be indistinguishable from emotional attachment. You might experience next to no attraction for years, and then find yourself consumed with another person. At one point in your life, sex might be the ultimate thrill; at another, it might be boring and routine. And all of it is okay, and none of it marks the essence of who you really are.

Umm...duh?

[Elijah Craig]

Yah, it seems so simple, doesn't it? I wonder if the article was written to sex addicts or something. Or, maybe better put-- if he sees the other 99% as being entirely composed of sex addicts.

[Persnickety Polecat]

(04-06-2012 04:37 PM)Elijah Craig Wrote:  Or, maybe better put-- if he sees the other 99% as being entirely composed of sex addicts.

Yes.