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Asexuality Is Real How A Rare Orientation Helps Us Understand Human Sexuality
" Asexuality, lacking attraction to anyone or anything, affects approximately one percent of the population, scientists say.
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Meanwhile, the scientific community evolves in its understanding of what is normal. The 1980 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, for instance, included a disorder referred to as “inhibited sexual desire” and renamed, two decades later, “hypoactive sexual desire disorder.” This pathology — which is based on the assumption that some level of sexual desire is normal — was defined as a deficiency or absence of sexual fantasies and desire, which causes distress or interpersonal difficulty.
While a decrease in sexual desire can signal physiological (hypothyroidism, for example) or psychological (depression, anxiety) conditions, is low or absent sexual desire necessarily a disorder? More importantly, is asexuality simply low sexual desire?
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In a videotaped discussion of research comparing low desire and asexuality, Brotto points to the fact that asexual people feel no distress for the condition, whereas those who suffer from a physiological condition causing them to lose their libido do feel distress. She also states “there’s no reparative therapy” for asexual people."
lots more at link, some of the highlights above.
As someone who historically goes years between sexual relationships despite daily masturbation quite happily, I can attest some people love sex (as I do) yet isn't as motivated to have partner-sex. In my case it's like how I don't drink alcohol any more. Not because I had a problem with it but because I'd done it enough times I don't see a need, or have a desire, to do it again. As with sex. I've had lots of partner-sex with men and women, and at this point don't see a need or have much desire to do so again. Although I do have a desire to try my fantasy and be with a hot feminine Asian transsexual.
But regular men and women are a 'been there, done that, done lots of that.'
As to asexuality per se', it's possible some people get to the 'don't see the need to do it for real' ahead of those like myself who don't but due to lots of experience. An asexual might just be able to leap to the end of the book as it were via masturbation or visualization and fantasy alone.
In any event, the very idea of labelling our sexuality somewhere on a spectrum doesn't sit right in my lap. People are all sexual, or not as with asexuals, but what's it matter what kind of sexual they are?
" Asexuality, lacking attraction to anyone or anything, affects approximately one percent of the population, scientists say.
...
Meanwhile, the scientific community evolves in its understanding of what is normal. The 1980 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, for instance, included a disorder referred to as “inhibited sexual desire” and renamed, two decades later, “hypoactive sexual desire disorder.” This pathology — which is based on the assumption that some level of sexual desire is normal — was defined as a deficiency or absence of sexual fantasies and desire, which causes distress or interpersonal difficulty.
While a decrease in sexual desire can signal physiological (hypothyroidism, for example) or psychological (depression, anxiety) conditions, is low or absent sexual desire necessarily a disorder? More importantly, is asexuality simply low sexual desire?
...
In a videotaped discussion of research comparing low desire and asexuality, Brotto points to the fact that asexual people feel no distress for the condition, whereas those who suffer from a physiological condition causing them to lose their libido do feel distress. She also states “there’s no reparative therapy” for asexual people."
lots more at link, some of the highlights above.
As someone who historically goes years between sexual relationships despite daily masturbation quite happily, I can attest some people love sex (as I do) yet isn't as motivated to have partner-sex. In my case it's like how I don't drink alcohol any more. Not because I had a problem with it but because I'd done it enough times I don't see a need, or have a desire, to do it again. As with sex. I've had lots of partner-sex with men and women, and at this point don't see a need or have much desire to do so again. Although I do have a desire to try my fantasy and be with a hot feminine Asian transsexual.
But regular men and women are a 'been there, done that, done lots of that.' As to asexuality per se', it's possible some people get to the 'don't see the need to do it for real' ahead of those like myself who don't but due to lots of experience. An asexual might just be able to leap to the end of the book as it were via masturbation or visualization and fantasy alone.
In any event, the very idea of labelling our sexuality somewhere on a spectrum doesn't sit right in my lap. People are all sexual, or not as with asexuals, but what's it matter what kind of sexual they are?
