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larphis · 8 months

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Yeah. You're not asexual.

Quite intruiging anon that you seem to have a better understanding of my sexuality than me myself.

I am a sex-repusled ace person. The thought of sex with myself involved in any way disgusts me, however despite a lack of sexual attraction I still have a strong sense of aesthetic attraction to people. I couldn’t care less about having intimacy with them, but I still feel extremly drawn to people’s weird quirks and character traits.

Not to mention that asexuality is a spectrum, and demisexual people as well as people who have an active sex-life are also all a part of the ace community.

I would highly recommend using the time you are investing in trying to invalidate strangers sexualities in actually researching and educating yourself about all the different forms asexuality can take.

I am valid, and it took me years to accept that about myself, and I am not going to let that be taken away by someone who hides behinds the comforts of anonymity and has not exchanged a singular word with the person that I am.

Besides I use the asexual umbrella term because it’s easier to understand - for people like you who are clearly not educated about asexual people because it’s easier than me having to explain that I am aegosexual because almost no one would know what I am even talking about.

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codthefishgod · 24 days

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To all the people who think aspec people aren't LGBTQIA+ because we aren't "discriminated against enough", here's a lovely list of reasons why you need to educate yourself:

- We suffer from dehumanisation, people actively devaluing or even erasing our humanity because of our identities (The voidpunk community is heavily supported by aspec people because of this)

- We suffer from self hatred due to feeling as if and being told we are broken, that no one can be happy unless they're in a romantic/sexual relationship, because of allonormativity and amatonormativity that actively damages our mental health

- Amatonormativity shapes laws that put us at an active disadvantage, such as giving married people financial and legal benefits

- Aspec people have been victims of conversion therapy, correctional rape, a lower quality of life, and other effects of being a marginalised and oppressed group

- We suffer from our identities being pathologised and deal with medical stigma because of this, causing many of us to feel unwelcome in and even avoid health care settings

- We suffer from our identities being erased, which can range from people completely denying our existence and people equating it to celibacy, to an almost complete absence of aspec representation in the media (It's been getting better lately, especially for alloaces and aroaces, but I have yet to ever see a canon aroallo character, and representation for those on the spectrum rather than in the extremes is often ignored)

- YOU are creating a hateful, exclusionary space in a community meant to be about inclusion. The same thing that happens to us happens to bisexual people, to polyamorous people, and other identities that are "disputed." In a community meant to be about rejecting the norm, YOU are shoving us out because we don't fit the norm of being LGBTQIA+. Because we're not enough like you.

These are only a few examples of aphobia that people like me deal with. Discrimination and oppression against aspec people stretches far beyond this.

But even if it didn't, it is disrespectful and harmful to everyone involved to gatekeep membership in the community based on oppression and discrimination.

We aren't LGBTQIA+ because we experience oppression. We are LGBTQIA+ because our existence alone goes against heteronormativity and other societal norms forced upon us.

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theartofmadeline · 2 months

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new zine about asexual history! this one's been rattling around my head for awhile

#asexual #asexuality #ace #zine #lgbtq #lgbt #pride #asexual pride #asexual history #mini zine #theartofmadeline #ive been wanting to do this one for awhilllllle #i love researching things teehee #there's obviously more accounts about the word asexual being used #especially in the 70s-90s #but this is an educational zine not a research paper #not sure if i'll print this one (digest size) but maybe??#zine making #zinester

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kirbyddd · 7 months

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loving this official US government sample card for the new driver's license standard that people'll need to fly in 2025

"Ima Cardholder"

Ace Attorney character

#ace attorney #is reposting Department of Homeland Security info like this gonna get me on a list? they want to raise awareness about the new reqs right?#listen man i was just booking a bargain bin flight and it was like “New Real ID reqs in 2025 educate yourself!!!”#and the info page had this funny image #im a good citizen dont want no trouble just informing the good people of the new Real ID act sir #dont draft me

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dollopheadsandclotpoles · 7 months

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I did try to make friends. But I couldn't let people in without giving myself away...

#mine #sex education #sex education spoilers #O #Sarah 'O' Owen #asexual #aromantic #asexuality #aromanticism #aroace #ace #aro #aro stuff #ace stuff #aroace tag #I... honestly don't know how I felt about this storyline + this season as a whole #I loved this scene #but none of this stuff was shown in the show #i'm not opposed to her being a villain it's more that this wasn't handled storytelling wise in the way they wanted it to come across #i read what yasmin benoit put up on her insta and she basically said this #that she was also disappointed cause they cut and edited it in such a way that none of these things were breadcrumbed in before this #and for real like... when Otis was like were you lying about being ace to make me look bad #LIKE IT DID SEEM LIKE THAT #that's how they played it!!!#idk this whole season needed more work I think cause there was too much telling and not enough nuance #not enough fun not enough messiness #not enough build up to the tracks idk man #like it wasn't bad just... not quite what it should have been #wasn't organic #also she just calls herself ace but she said she doesn't have crushes so... aro too ig

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goondah · 7 months

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As much as i enjoyed season 4 of Sex Education, its frustrating to see another character (O) describe being aromantic and asexual and only ever have them call it ace. Referring to aroace experiences only as "ace" hurts all of the aspec. It erases aromantic experiences as a part of asexuality and reinforces the assumption that all asexuals are also aromantic.

#aromantic #aro #asexual #ace #aroace #aroallo #alloace #aspec #netflix sex education

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acexualien · 2 months

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shesalewa · 2 months

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IM CRINGING. IM CRINGING. I'M CRINGING.

MORGAN FREEMAN SAVE ME.

I HATE THE JIYOUNG X JIWOO SHIP SO BAD.

282 CHAPTER OF ELECEED.

She says "what does your heart say Jiwoo???" Ksbdjrvsj FB eirhbrbfj ugUGHHHHHHHHH SPARE ME THE EMBARRASSMENT.

BRO. SHE SHOULD PICK SOMEONE HER AGE.

LIKE DAWG. The only reason why jiwoo is drawn to Jiyoung is because he's thankful that she was there to help him and protect him. And because she's strong.

OTHER THAN THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM IS JUST FORCED. IT'S FORCED. FORCED I TELL YOU. IT'S SO DISGUSTING.

Jiyoung actually has no reason to like Jiwoo. "slow burn?" NO. IN THE EARLY EPISODES. Jiyoung blushed at Jiwoo because she was growing fond of him. JUST LIKE HOW INHYUK BLUSHED AT JIWOO'S CUTENESS BECAUSE INHYUK SEE'S JIWOO AS SOMEONE HE WANTS TO PROTECT.

I do not approve of this relationship. It's ugly. It's disgusting. It's forced. I hate it.

BUT FKN DAMNIT THE ART MAKES IT WORSE. "But wdym makes it worse???" THE ART MAKES IT LOOK LIKE IT'LL BE A GOOD SHIP WHEN GOSH DAMN IT DOES NOT. (no hate to the artist. I just hate how it's drawn as if they're drawn to each other when they clearly have absolutely no chemistry.)

Okay let me explain.

In action. Romance is a thing that shouldn't be written in. (Unless you're the dude that wrote down White blood/unholy blood then yes. Because you're a professional.)

TAKE IN FOR EXAMPLE.

LOOKISM. GOSH. Daniel and Jay have chemistry. However there's actually a good ship between Daniel and another girl (NO IT'S NOT CRYSTAL. FOR F-CK SAKE SHE'S A FORCED HEROINE TOO. DAMN.) that girl is ZOE. SHE HAS SO MUCH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. I LOVE HOW JUST FOR DANIEL SHE WILLING PUT HERSELF IN A BAD RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO PROTECT HIM.

NEXT.

Designated bully.

B/TCH IM SORRY. HE'S A GROWN A// MAN WHO HAS NO INTEREST IN YOU. YOU'RE A FKN 14-15 IDK YRO GIRL.

LIKE DAMN 😭

WHAT ELSE. OH.

VIRAL HIT. (How to fight)

OH MY GOSH. UGHHHH

HOOBIN HAS MORE CHEMISTRY WITH TAEHUN THAN HE DOES WITH THE GIRL I DON'T EVEN KNOW HER DAMN NAME.

NOT ONLY THAT SHE HAS MORE CHANCES WITH HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND THE RED HAIRED DUDE. MORE THAN WITH HOOBIN.

Damn 😭

DO I HAVE TO ADD IN MORE???

DO I???

The gays are the most active. When it's Action, Sports, Action-fantasy(ORV, trash of the count family etc.), idc. Idk. There's probably more. BUT. AS LONG AS IT INVOLVES FIGHTING. GAYS ARE MOST ACTIVE.(Yes this involves debating. Like ace attorney. Cause gosh damn. Miles and phoenix have so much chemistry)

Take True education/ Get schooled.

It has absolutely 0 romance. And the romance that did exist. Is gone bc our Mc Warren, lost his fiancee. And this was the best action story that spoke of romance without getting it involved.

If writers wanna write down Romance-action they should learn from White blood . ESPECIALLY IF THEY WANT IT TO BE STRAIGHT.

CAUSE DAMN THE SUCK A// AT WRITING STRAIGHT COUPLES.

#eleceed manhwa #eleceed webtoon #eleceed #lookism #lookism webtoon #lookism manhwa #designated bully #viral hit #how to fight #white blood #unholy blood #pure blood #true education #get schooled #thank you for coming to my ted talk #ace attorney

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ominouspuff · 2 months

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pov u are overworked and under(not) paid but at least you’ve still got ur teeth

Accompanying this au where Fox and Fives fake a death, make up a new Corrie, and everyone else in the Guard is kinda unwillingly inducted into unhinged-conspiracy-theory-bro-hood too

The Corries: the chancellor needs to die

The rest of the GAR: loolll ikr haha

The Corries:

The GAR, frantically punching in Coruscant’s coordinates: …LOLLL ikr HA, RIGHT??

#fan art #artists on tumblr #star wars fanart #star wars: the clone wars #commander fox #WIP #sketch #hc: he’s looking at Fives in corrie armor and already envisioning the takedown of the entire republic that is now possible #hc: Fox realizes the republic is corrupt long before he’s educated on Palps’ real identity #when he finds out Palps is a Sith he is gobsmacked but in a deadpan ‘this is my life’ kinda way #Fix-it AU where Fox names a newly-Corrie-fied Fives ‘ace’ because he’s the ace up his sleeve. Fives is not impressed even a little by this

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acespec-ed · 2 years

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Since it’s so hard for people to wrap their heads around asexuals being anything other than sexless beings with no libidos...

I want you to think of being hungry. I want you to think of your appetite. I want you to think of cravings.

Your libido going off, is like being hungry. Your current mood for sex, is like your current appetite. Your cravings, are people you’re sexually attracted to.

You can be hungry and have no appetite. You can have an appetite, but not be hungry. You can be hungry and have an appetite, but have no cravings. I’m sure most people can relate to experiencing a combination of these factors.

Most of the time, when you’re hungry, that hunger is often paired with appetite and cravings. You’re hungry, you want to eat something, you want to eat something in specific.

Libido, sexual desire, and sexual attraction typically works the same way. You’re horny, you want to have sex, you want to have sex with someone in particular.

When I say “want,” I mean “want.” Not no “I’ll go along with my partner cuz it’ll make them happy” or, “I’m comfortable enough with this person to do it,” or “I’m sensually/romantically/aesthetically attracted to this person and they’re willing so I’ll do it.”

Those reasons would be the equivalent of eating a food a partner made because it’ll make them happy. Simply eating something that’s already in front of you. Eating something you don’t mind eating even though you’re not in the mood for it. That’s not a craving. That’s settling.

When your libido goes off, and you’re in the mood for sex, but there’s no one you’re sexually attracted to? You might settle for sex with whoever is available. That might sound depressing to some allos, but imagine never craving any foods in particular. Are you just going to, sit there and starve because you have no cravings? Are you going to ignore your mood to eat? No. You’re still going to eat something because you want your stomach to stop growling. Or maybe you just want to eat for the sake of eating. So you pick the best option available. And since you’re never craving anything, you’re never “missing out” on anything. It’s not like, wanting pizza but everyone around you wants steak so you have to settle for steak while wishing you were having pizza instead. It’s simply, there’s nothing specific you want but everyone else wants steak so you all go to Outback Steakhouse because, it’ll get the job done, even though you’re not craving it, it’s something to eat and now your hunger has been satisfied.

That right there, is how an asexual can still get horny. How an asexual can want sex. Many asexuals are only missing the sexual attraction component. That’s it that’s all that��s missing.

Graysexuals might get cravings rarely, or have very weak cravings. Demisexuals might start craving donuts if they hang around a donut shop long enough. Fraysexuals might start craving donuts but, after hanging around the donut shop, lose that craving. Aceflux is when your craving levels fluctuate. Quoisexual is when you’re not sure if you even have cravings.

And that’s what it all boils down to. Cravings.

#asexual #asexuality #gray asexual #graysexual #acespec #ace spectrum #education #original posts

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traceyshortfilm · 8 days

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***TW ACEPHOBIA*** TW HOMOPHOBIA *** TW TRANSPHOBIA***

For all the people that always try to debate Yasmin on Twitter, saying: "Why do aces need rights? No one is attacking you, no one cares that you're asexual"

Well, this is just a fraction of the hate we received on Facebook after publicizing our Tr(ace)y project last May:

People seem to care a lot!

Until we can post freely and unapologetically about being ace and get a much bigger ratio of support than hate, we will always keep doing the work. If this is what our project received, I can't even imagine what Yasmin gets in a day. Shoutout to the most badass ace queen ever. Always reminding us to block out the haters!

Promoting education, understanding & compassion always! 💜

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acexualien · 14 days

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What is romantic attraction? Read to find out more!

This is part 2 of a multiple parts series where we’ll be exploring a multitude of different types of attractions! I hope you’ll enjoy ☺️

Disclaimer: slides 5 and 6 are not an exhaustive list of types of romantic attraction!

You can support me by following me on my socials (link in bio) and by engaging with my posts! Thank you 🩵

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ploncc · 1 year

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The A-Sexy Talk

sup mothers and fuckers, i always wanted something more comprehensive than the cake metaphors and it took me like a whole ass decade to work this out because i was assigned dumbass at birth, so for all the other adab folks out there, here:

disclaimer: this is just one way of breaking down sex and sexuality, and our definitions of asexuality are likely to change with different contexts, and that's okay

Sex (for the purpose of this discussion) is the action. Solo play, getting pounded, frottage, oral, whatever, wherever, with whomever, we don't care. Sex is all of it, baby.

Arousal is a state your body can be in. Your heart rate goes up, if you were online in the superwholock days then you know those damn pupils dilate, you might start feeling warm, and you might get wet, get a boner, or both, or neither, depending on what the normal for your junk is!

Libido or sex-drive is how often/much you want sexual stimulation. This might be very frequently and A LOT. This might be occasionally, or only a little. This might be never.

Consent isn't an inherently sexual topic. Consent is when someone agrees to specific activity/activities with another person/people. A lot of places have an age of consent, over which you can consent to medical treatment, legal contracts, and yeah, sex. And just like consent is integral to medical treatment and signing contracts, sex has to have consent.

Sexual Attraction is when you want to engage sexually with someone, even if you wouldn't should you ever have the opportunity. Sometimes we call it desire, or lust. A lot of times it's based off physical appearance, or vibes, or personality. This can overlap a lot with arousal, but sometimes someone you feel sexual attraction towards won't be that arousing, and sometimes the opposite is true.

Sensual Attraction is when you want to engage with someone using your senses. Usually this refers to the sense of touch. Ever look at someone and go "Damn, I bet they'd give wicked awesome hugs," or "Fucking hell, their voice, I could listen to them all day," or "I just want to feel that person's body close to mine," or similar? That's sensual attraction, baby! Similarly to sexual attraction, just because you're sensually attracted doesn't mean you'd physically engage with the person if given the opportunity.

Romantic Attraction is when you want to engage with someone romantically. I feel like you're getting the pattern now, yeah? Yeah. Cool.

Sexual Pleasure or sometimes just pleasure is when you feel good from sexual stimulation. Straightforward for once. Nice, right?

Kink is something we culturally defined as being not inherently sexual (or not sexual to that degree) that gives arousal and/or pleasure to someone nonetheless. Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me, BDSM, fear play, fetishes, all that good shit. We also refer to the kink community and engaging in play as just simply "kink" sometimes.

And last, not but not least, Abstinence is when someone abstains (see what they did there) from sex for practical reasons. Injuries, disease prevention, an unavailability of safe and reliable birth control, stuff like that. Celibacy is similar, but folks that are celibate are abstaining from sex for religious/moral code reasons. Get it? Good.

Okay.

So.

Asexuality is when someone does not experience sexual attraction.

That's it!

An asexual person (an ace) might have any range of libido, might experience arousal, can give consent so long as they are above the age of consent, might experience different forms of attractions like sensual attraction or romantic attraction (or even attractions that we didn't cover here), may or may not have practical/religious reasons for engaging or not engaging in sex, might have kinks, and can (if they so choose to) have sex.

That's all there is to it! The same depth and breadth of experience that exists outside the ace community is also found within the ace community, because individual variation doesn't give a shit whether your population is queer or not.

"But wait!" someone cries out, "what about people that hate sex! I thought they were called asexual?!"

That's called being Sex Repulsed and it is also a normal experience for humans to have! Sometimes it's caused by trauma or something else, and sometimes it isn't. But as you'd think, feeling extreme discomfort/disgust/repulsion at the idea of sex and/or the act of it means the likelihood of feeling sexual attraction is pretty fucking low. Not impossible! Just low. So yeah, a lot of sex repulsed folks are a part of the ace community, are vital to our history and culture, and are loved by us. And, not all aces are sex-repulsed.

Makes sense?

....hopefully?

Cool.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #queer #sex ed #sex education #sexuality

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