#asexuals
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The differences under the ace umbrella
I’ve reblogged this like 12 times but it will always be relevant
This analogy is good, and even easier to understand once you think of this “urge” as being hungry.
Asexuals are never hungry. Demisexuals aren’t usually hungry, except sometimes they walk by a donut shop they’ve become familiar with over time and there’s a chance that they find themselves hungry. Grey-asexuals sometimes get hungry, sometimes not.
Some aren’t sure whether they fall under the ace umbrella or where on the spectrum they’re on, because they think they might’ve felt hunger before but they’re not really sure if it was really hunger or if their stomach was just upset or what, so they’re still figuring things out.
None of them choose to not be hungry.
Sex-repulsed aces don’t like/hate donuts for different and valid reasons.
Sex-indifferent aces don’t mind donuts. Some will maybe eat some, but most times they probably wouldn’t go out of their way to go look for donuts to eat.
Sex-positive aces like donuts. They’re not hungry when they eat donuts and they’re not eating donuts to stop being hungry, but they like eating donuts, so they do.
I really like how OP mentions that celibacy is the same as going on a diet, because that really shows how different asexuality is compared to celibacy. Generally speaking, celibate people will still go hungry but they choose to not eat. With asexuals, we don’t get hungry, period.
I think of sexual attraction more as appetite, and sex drive being like hunger. So for aces with a sex drive it’s like you might be hungry but nothing ever looks good.
@anon this is probably the best explanation I’ve found.
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People who support lesbians and gays but disapprove of or are uncomfortable with bisexuals, transgenders, nonbinary individuals, pansexuals, asexuals, etc. are NOT allies.
Happy Pride Month! Some pride flags for Romani/Rom/Rromani people! Remember that Romani LGBT+ exist! The LGBT+ expands to people of all types over all ethnicity groups! Do NOT leave certain groups out this pride month!
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Just a reminder that asexuals, aromantics, and agenders are great. They are always on top of their A-game!
Asexuals are valid & amazing
Me (an Aro Ace) :sings along to a song that is about love or sex
Everyone in a three mile radius: WHY DO YOU LIKE SINGING SONGS ABOUT SEX AND LOVE? SOUNDS LIKE YOU AREN’T REALLY AN AROMANTIC ASEXUAL!!! HAHA YOU JUST WANTED ATTENTION ALL ALONG!
Me:LITERALLYEVERY OTHER SONG IS ABOUT LOVE OR SEX. ALSO, ASEXUAL DOES NOT MEAN I STAY AWAY FROM MEDIA THAT REFERENCES SEX, JUST AS AROMANTIC DOES NOT MEAN I AVOID ANYTHING DEALING WITH RELATIONSHIPS.
Asexual= LACK OF SEXUAL ATTRACTION
Aromantic= LACK OF ROMANTIC ATTRACTION
Asexual does NOT mean staying away from things dealing with or referencing sexual actions
Aromantic does NOT mean staying away from things dealing with or referencing romantic attraction
Person: What you’re wearing doesn’t make you look aro/ace! You look like you are trying to attract someone!
Aromantics/ Asexuals can dress ourselves up because we want to look pretty, regardless of what anyone else thinks. We are not dressing up for your pleasure. Aros and Aces should be able to dress nicely or even “immodestly” without this whole idea that doing so takes away from our aro/ace identity.
me (an ace) *breathes*
*Random acephobe crawling out of the 2nd level of hell*
Them: Asexuality does not exist. Asexuals are just teens looking for attention! I advise you to seek therapy!!!
Me: I’m asexual
Person: sO doEs ThAt MeAn ThAt YoU ArE a sPoNgE?
*stares into the camera like I’m on The Office*
Reblog this Ace Roman for good luck in 2018 + to remind everyone that aces exist and we are proud as hell to be here
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If you want to know what acephobia in the LGBT+ community does, it makes asexuals, like me, not want to go to LGBT groups because we won’t feel welcomed. It isolates us and tells us our problems are invalid. Acephobia in the LGBT+ literally scares aces away from places (like LGBT groups in our schools and communities) that should be safe for us.
Updated my Facebook status to ASEXUAL AND PROUD and I’m suddenly a hotline operator for the most stupid questions to answer. Every passer now feels it a must to ask what that is and how to cook it. I’m but a parrot crying, ‘Pirate’s code: first freedom and the captain’ like, a million times already but they keep gasping in horror and, ‘What about love?’
WHAT ABOUT LOVE! I didn’t say I was A-love-al. Why does love is suddenly a straight line to sex, eh? Big question!
Hanged out with Amazons today and met Lisa walking out her doll — oops! — dog. She said asexuals can’t love properly, don’t do it like… strong enough and blah blah lah lah.
‘You repress the nature itself,’ she asserted while chewing on her gluten, lactose and taste free vitamin bar. ‘It’s totally normal to snog and shag. You just don’t let it into your life!’
I said I didn’t let many things into my life (like my natural pull to football her silly dog up and above once she dares yapping at me again) just as she didn’t let dairy into her life.
‘It’s different!’ Lisa snorted. ‘Dairy make me sick.’
‘Why do you think it’s different?’ Carmina asked. ‘Milk is natural too.’
And that was the end for Lisa cos some street macho-dog sniffed up with her Pinkie and was just about to give her a totally normal and natural snog and shag. Lisa went berserk and kicked him off swagging with her clatch like mighty Boudica crushing Romans into dust. We laughed so freaking loud I thought we’d choke! XD
Nature my ass. I prefer loving people not fucking their bodies and then pretend it was something spiritual. Love for me is looking one direction, not at each other, doing something together not something WITH each other. I wish people tore their noses off their butts to say, fu** romantic strolls and sucking between sheets,
LET’S DO SOMETHING GREAT!
Why don’t we?
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