‘I don’t want sex with anyone’: the growing asexuality movement

[JacksinPA]

‘I don’t want sex with anyone’: the growing asexuality movement

Asexual representation is becoming more common – but the orientation is still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning

www.theguardian.com

Asexuality is becoming more common – but it still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning

Yasmin Benoit realised she was asexual around the time her peers in Reading figured out they weren’t. “Everyone seems pretty asexual until puberty hits and then they aren’t. But I didn’t feel the same way. I realised something was up,” she recalls.
But when the then-teenager came out as asexual, no one believed her. “They were, like: ‘You don’t look asexual, you’re probably just insecure, or you must have got molested or you must be gay… Maybe you’re a psychopath and can’t form proper connections with people.’”

Everyone had a theory about what was “wrong” with Benoit; no one accepted the simple fact that, by nature, she didn’t feel sexual attraction towards others. And she’s not alone. Today, as well as being a fashion model, the poised 24-year-old is the world’s most prominent activist for asexuality, an orientation estimated to apply to 1% of the global population, although some think the number is higher.

“I don’t want to have sex with anybody and I probably won’t ever have sex,” says Benoit over Zoom, although she does explain that the key point here is sexual relations with others: she does masturbate.

Benoit is determined to ensure other asexual (or “ace”) people don’t feel broken or alone in a world in which lust and desire pulsate through our entire culture. “Our society is increasingly hyper-sexualised,” she says, “and that can make it particularly alienating for asexual people who don’t have those feelings, or don’t want to live that life.”

The asexuality movement is young and fast-growing, and it recently received a notable boost. Last September saw the release of Ace, a critically acclaimed book by asexual journalist Angela Chen. It illuminates the myriad shades of asexuality via a series of real-life profiles.
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I've known a number of women socially & their sexual appetites vary greatly. Some is instinctual, some POVs are religion-based. Young Catholic women get brainwashed that they should offer their hymens to their new husbands on their first night in bed together, so they have a 'closed thigh' policy before they get married.

It sounds like this lady has her sexual needs well in hand, either skin on skin or via Hitachi.

 

[Omniscient]

the prevalence of std's and porn

why have sex with a possible infected human when you can just jerk off to unlimited hd porn

 

[ProgressPlease]

Yes there is definitely a rise in adolescent females identifying as asexual.

Is it a surprise given the way kids are introduced to sex and disturbing sexual imagery via the internet at very young ages.

Are there people who do not feel a sexual drive? Sure. There are lots of reasons for that but they historically did not consider themselves to have a sexual orientation of "asexual" and certainly not in their teens.

Labels are very attractive to this generation and a way to channel distress and find a community. There is a lot of distress.

 

[JacksinPA]

Yes there is definitely a rise in adolescent females identifying as asexual.

Is it a surprise given the way kids are introduced to sex and disturbing sexual imagery via the internet at very young ages.

Are there people who do not feel a sexual drive? Sure. There are lots of reasons for that but they historically did not consider themselves to have a sexual orientation of "asexual" and certainly not in their teens.

Labels are very attractive to this generation and a way to channel distress and find a community. There is a lot of distress.

In my post the woman gets sexual release from masturbating, so she is still a sexual being.

 

[Lisa]

‘I don’t want sex with anyone’: the growing asexuality movement

Asexual representation is becoming more common – but the orientation is still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning

www.theguardian.com

Asexuality is becoming more common – but it still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning

Yasmin Benoit realised she was asexual around the time her peers in Reading figured out they weren’t. “Everyone seems pretty asexual until puberty hits and then they aren’t. But I didn’t feel the same way. I realised something was up,” she recalls.
But when the then-teenager came out as asexual, no one believed her. “They were, like: ‘You don’t look asexual, you’re probably just insecure, or you must have got molested or you must be gay… Maybe you’re a psychopath and can’t form proper connections with people.’”

Everyone had a theory about what was “wrong” with Benoit; no one accepted the simple fact that, by nature, she didn’t feel sexual attraction towards others. And she’s not alone. Today, as well as being a fashion model, the poised 24-year-old is the world’s most prominent activist for asexuality, an orientation estimated to apply to 1% of the global population, although some think the number is higher.

“I don’t want to have sex with anybody and I probably won’t ever have sex,” says Benoit over Zoom, although she does explain that the key point here is sexual relations with others: she does masturbate.

Benoit is determined to ensure other asexual (or “ace”) people don’t feel broken or alone in a world in which lust and desire pulsate through our entire culture. “Our society is increasingly hyper-sexualised,” she says, “and that can make it particularly alienating for asexual people who don’t have those feelings, or don’t want to live that life.”

The asexuality movement is young and fast-growing, and it recently received a notable boost. Last September saw the release of Ace, a critically acclaimed book by asexual journalist Angela Chen. It illuminates the myriad shades of asexuality via a series of real-life profiles.
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I've known a number of women socially & their sexual appetites vary greatly. Some is instinctual, some POVs are religion-based. Young Catholic women get brainwashed that they should offer their hymens to their new husbands on their first night in bed together, so they have a 'closed thigh' policy before they get married.

It sounds like this lady has her sexual needs well in hand, either skin on skin or via Hitachi.

She is so skinny that her asexuality could be hormally driven.

Jane Fonda just said this and at her age, it is almost certainly hormonal.

Jane Fonda is ready to put her intimate relationships to bed.

In a wide-ranging cover interview for Harper's Bazaar's April issue, on newsstands April 6, the Oscar-winning actress opens up about her thoughts on intimacy at 83 years old, and why she doesn't want to be in a "sexual relationship" again.

"One of the painful things that I've realized by 80—I don't even know how old I am—83, and single now. What I've had to really think about is that I'm not really capable [of intimacy]," she says. "It's not them. It's me. If a guy had come along and said, 'Come on, Fonda, show up,' I would have run away scared."



The Grace and Frankie star, who is no stranger to discussing her sex life, says she had been "attracted to men who never would have done that to me because they couldn't necessarily show up themselves."

Jane Fonda Says She Doesn't Want to Be in 'a Sexual Relationship' Again: 'I Don't Have That Desire'

Jane Fonda opens up to Harper's Bazaar about why she no longer desires a "sexual relationship"

people.com

 

[RealityNow]

When people see the sex organ as a toy of sorts, they will get played by their game of trying to use it to play someone. Sex is an act that can create life, and no one knows which moment that act may commence that process. No one gets to use anyone without themselves using themselves. and all usages comes at a cost. People should not let looks alone speak as if its sole truth, because "physical beauty is not a representation of honesty, virtue nor truth, but truth is a beauty that lights the soul, and when the soul is filled with the light of truth, honest and virtue is an outpouring. Take off the make up, the costumes and the haughitness of vanity's pride, and you have what is "the individual".... when truth lights up the soul of that individual, you get to see "The Person". Love is only possible to be mutually loving when its Person to Person. So... don't play yourself short, or you will come up short ... Always!!!

 

[Bodi]

‘I don’t want sex with anyone’: the growing asexuality movement

Asexual representation is becoming more common – but the orientation is still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning

www.theguardian.com

Asexuality is becoming more common – but it still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning

Yasmin Benoit realised she was asexual around the time her peers in Reading figured out they weren’t. “Everyone seems pretty asexual until puberty hits and then they aren’t. But I didn’t feel the same way. I realised something was up,” she recalls.
But when the then-teenager came out as asexual, no one believed her. “They were, like: ‘You don’t look asexual, you’re probably just insecure, or you must have got molested or you must be gay… Maybe you’re a psychopath and can’t form proper connections with people.’”

Everyone had a theory about what was “wrong” with Benoit; no one accepted the simple fact that, by nature, she didn’t feel sexual attraction towards others. And she’s not alone. Today, as well as being a fashion model, the poised 24-year-old is the world’s most prominent activist for asexuality, an orientation estimated to apply to 1% of the global population, although some think the number is higher.

“I don’t want to have sex with anybody and I probably won’t ever have sex,” says Benoit over Zoom, although she does explain that the key point here is sexual relations with others: she does masturbate.

Benoit is determined to ensure other asexual (or “ace”) people don’t feel broken or alone in a world in which lust and desire pulsate through our entire culture. “Our society is increasingly hyper-sexualised,” she says, “and that can make it particularly alienating for asexual people who don’t have those feelings, or don’t want to live that life.”

The asexuality movement is young and fast-growing, and it recently received a notable boost. Last September saw the release of Ace, a critically acclaimed book by asexual journalist Angela Chen. It illuminates the myriad shades of asexuality via a series of real-life profiles.
===================================================================
I've known a number of women socially & their sexual appetites vary greatly. Some is instinctual, some POVs are religion-based. Young Catholic women get brainwashed that they should offer their hymens to their new husbands on their first night in bed together, so they have a 'closed thigh' policy before they get married.

It sounds like this lady has her sexual needs well in hand, either skin on skin or via Hitachi.

What a ****ing weird thing to post...

 

[maquiscat]

What a ****ing weird thing to post...

Not really. As we "grow up" as a society, we are learning that we don't need to hide who we are. We're not suddenly getting more homosexuals, transgenders and asexuals. They've been here all along, as have all kinds of people who are different and outside the statistical norms, and there have been the clues in history to support it. And in some cultures it was open and acknowledged. What we are getting is more and more people actually admitting the truth about what they are. It won't surprise me to see in the near future, multiple personality systems that function well in the world who "come out of the closet".

 

[bomberfox]

Sometimes its due to suppression, others like me just tend to not care.

 

[Slartibartfast]

If people don't want to have sex but want to be in a relationship, then more power to them if they can find a like minded partner. Having a community would help immensely I suspect.

 

[Omniscient]

In my post the woman gets sexual release from masturbating, so she is still a sexual being.

despite all this free porno the world population is still climbing

maybe this new elon musk tesla internet will help get more porn around the world and help lower the relationship rates and therefore population lol