Asexual? Heteromantic? Homoamorous? Biaffectionate? Human relationships are getting extremely complicated these days! http://www.transcendingboundaries.org/resources/asexuality-101.html
I honestly think it's a silly question. Obviously, romantic, sexual love would not be in the cards. But the affection that you have for friends, relatives, children, and pets? Of course! One problem that I think the asexuals have is that many people seem to imagine them being emotionless; as though not experiencing sexual attraction and romantic love would make you act like Mr. Spock on Star Trek. You could have a fulfilling life full of friends and family, staying busy with things that interest you, while wasting no time or energy on pursuing sex. I wish I were asexual, and I've often wondered if there were a medication that could turn off the sexual love part of your brain, while leaving all of the rest unaffected (this is in the realm of science fiction, there is nothing like this at this time, and there probably never will be), if people would want to go back after trying it? I think most people, upon hearing of this thought experiment, think it's a horrible idea, because they cannot imagine not experiencing sexual desire; which is strange in a way, because we were all children once, and speaking for myself at least, I certainly was not interested in sex when I was six. I believe I was completely typical in that respect.
Can asexuals fall in love? Well... Did you read your link MR? An excerpt: Can asexual people fall in love? Yes. Love and sex are different things, and asexual people are as capable of experiencing love as anyone else. For many asexual people, love happens in romantic partnerships which rely on powerful nonsexual ways to express intimacy. For other asexual people love happens primarily in close friendships, in community ties, or in relationships with self. Emotional intimacy is complex and multi-faceted, and the ways that asexual people find it are complicated and diverse. each asexual person must explore intimate relationships on her, his, or hir own terms. Just sayin'...
fall in love? is that the oxytocin and serotonin you are talking about. love and lust aren't always mutually exclusive. that is how you can love your friend, your brother, .....
No lengthy paternity-test quests in a realm that only features cuddle-sluts and cuddle-cheaters. So the bizarro version of the Maury show on a counterpart Asexual Earth might go out of business without that recurring episode theme to introduce. Of course, those complicated baby-making factories up on the floating Cloud Islands would be keeping the storks busy with their cabbage patch deliveries. "Celibacy World" sounds like a job for another spin-off of Once Upon A Time the season after next, following the show's creators rolling out that Wonderland romp.
If only there were some virile cyborgian Matt Damon to bring down that whole tropospheric breeder utopia. Shameless plug: See Elysium starting Aug 9th! As for Once Upon A Time, what boardroom full of clueless marketing experts came to the conclusion that fairy tales would be the new "in" fad in entertainment media? I quit watching Grim after the second episode of thinly-veiled Brothers Grimm troping even though it is filmed right here in Portland. Afterall, there's a good reason fairy tales are FOR children and not adults. They're SIMPLISTIC! Just another instance of slick producers trying to cash in on cliche demographic trends instead of striving for some creative originality.
I question: Why is it that platonic love is so difficult to understand? example: the love between a grand child and his grandmother... The love of a station master towards his stations patrons as he exercises duty of care and security consciousness. The love of a soldier fighting a war in some begotten place so that his society back home has a hope of survival... and so on.. If you mean asexual love between two attracted people ie. man and woman.....now that's a bit more difficult [ in pseudo absolute terms IMO ] Yet most of the time you may be with your partner you are actually in a "platonic" state unless you are bonking all the time...future projections may be sexual yet the present moment may be asexual. [just wanted to subscribe to read what all you guys/gals reckon Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ]
Apart from couples who clearly didn't know what they were doing and some who maybe had a few cranial marbles missing, and excusing those with primary ambitions of raising children.... I've never met anyone who got married because of sex. But no doubt before the early, proto-stages of the Revolution there was probably many a desperate, sub-popular teens/20s male that sought an end to his bachelorhood for little other reason. Back when "bad" was in shorter supply among girls and a stigma rather than a ticket to a daytime talk-show. It's difficult to imagine even the somewhat different manner of "mal" for boys being the same degree of magnet / flytrap that it is today. At least aces have finally established themselves as a movement and community (connected by social media). It's still contended in some corners that asexuality is the last "orientiation" to escape classification as a disorder, but that surely requires conflation with HSDD, since diagnostic manuals don't feature it as the former label. Also, even DSM-V still has a robust paraphilia section of diverse classifications (though those are supposed to be regarded as "neutral" rather than unconditional psychiatric problems). So lingering "abnormality" status or not -- rah, rah: Go aces! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Love is a many-splendored thing! List of paraphilias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias List of non-paraphilic sexual interests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technical_terms_for_nonparaphilic_sexual_interests
I've never met anyone who got married because of sex. It's a humorous concept in today's world isn't it? Ripe for satirizing. Desire To Ejaculate Motivates Local Christian To Wed
Yes. By the way, not being sexually attracted to others does not equate to wanting to be alone. It just makes it that much harder not to be alone.
