Why can’t asexuals be welcomed in queer spaces? Could someone please explain that to me? The whole world thinks they do not exist, often believing that their sexuality is even less valid than that of bisexuals or homosexuals among non-queer groups. Asexuals need a comfortable space as well. Why are you going to bother getting into a pissing match about who is more ignored and oppressed than whom?
And idk another thing I was thinking about, another reason I hate when people say demis are special snowflakes, is I don’t use the label for attention, and I don’t think anyone else does, and I’m not asking for Queer Attention and Resources for being demi either. I just like the label because it helps me with understanding myself and my life. It’s for me, not for you.
Meh, enough demi posts for now. Just feelings. My blog, it seems, is full of boobs and feelings.
To be honest, I feel like the people who take other peoples’ identities personally and direct everything towards themselves and put words in other people’s mouths (my favorite is when someone makes a post claiming every last demi thinks every *sexual person is a “sexy sexual”…News flash number two: None of us think every *sexual fucks everything that moves), and insist people are looking for attention and trying to be special, I feel like these people are actually really insecure in their identities, and possibly attention seeking or maybe even egotistical if they take everything so personally and make everything about themselves.
And here is the obligatory “sexual attraction does not equal behavior”. And that being said, there are many demis out there who have sex with people they have no connection to whatsoever. You don’t need to be sexually attracted to someone to have sex with them.
Also, what happened to the secondary sexual attraction thing? If we had a better model (because I admit, the whole primary, secondary model confuses me a lot), maybe people could get a understanding of demisexuality instead of statements such as these that are either really vague, incorrect or both regarding said model:
Demis need to be romantically attached to a person first Demis fall in love with the person’s personality Demis don’t notice physical things
Oppression is such a broad word… I suppose I have, if we’re meaning something along the lines of intolerant responses and people telling me to get it checked and all that… But then again, what asexual doesn’t? Probably the closest thing to “institutional” or “societal” oppression I’ve had to experience are fetish communities, websites, RP sites; stuff like that. I’m an asexual with numerous fetish, several of which at least started in a sexual/arousing way. Many of them have moved from the sexual point to an asexual fetish (and I like those much more, no arousal, just weird enjoyment). Needless to say, in these communities, I’ve felt/been more or less outcast because though I have these paraphilias and whatnot, I’m not into sex. Most of the people on those websites act like they can’t go an hour without sex, or they can’t touch a fetishized object without masturbating. It’s slightly annoying.
do a lot of asexies hang out here? cause all these blog posts seem to be whining about the things *we* say and idk where else people talk about this much
When I experience sensual attraction to a person, I have desire for that person’s skin to be touching mine, and my desires are often selfish. I want to experience the textures of that person’s face, lips, and fingertips, among other things. Despite that sensual attraction will not form for me without an intimacy between myself and the other person, it seems to not have much to do with the relationship I have with the person at all: I think of the sensual activities I have done with partners as having been a (very pleasurable) garnish to my relationships with them rather than anything essential to my relationships. People have tried to tell me that my experience of sensual attraction is one of romantic attraction. I highly doubt that my experience of sensual attraction constitutes an experience of romantic attraction, for then romantic attraction would be selfish and shallow.
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