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 Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:32 pm
Relate Asexuality with the Following.
How do you think the following can affect or be affected by Asexuality. What analogy is there between the two? How do you feel about it? Does it help you in some particular way? Do you feel it pulls you back, somehow? Consecuences, antecedents, anything!
-Success
-Masturbation
-Maturity
-Intellect
-Personality
-Depression
-Social status
-Communication
-Other: (Please specify.)
Now, You need not answer or explian each and everyone of these. Just what you feel you have the capacity, knowledge, or experience to.
**Note:Those in bold are the ones I'm looking forward to reading of.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:17 am
not really sure what you are asking here?
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:27 pm
I don't think I understand either.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:08 pm
I must admit that I've had some troubles figuring out what exactly you're looking for with some of your posts too. sweatdrop
Are you simply curious about asexuality or are you actually conducting some kind of research? Your questions are plentiful and quite in-depth, so that's why I ask.
Again, I'm not sure what connections you're looking for between asexuality and the list of other things. I would say that some don't seem connected to me at all and others only limitedly - and even that depends on personal perspective at different periods of a person's life. Let me expand on that:
Masturbation is the only one that I suppose has a consistent impact caused by asexuality. I only masturbate on rare occasions, and when I do, it never involves the thought of other people of either sex or things like porn that other people often fantasize about.
I don't think my personality and communication are affected very much by my asexuality, but they might be part of the reason I can form friendships with women without a sexual context being involved. However, even that's not necessarily true because there are of course people of other orientations who can have non-sexual friendships with people of the sex/gender they're attracted to.
Additionally, it can't totally be judged from only my perspective because friendship is a two-way process. Communication is also affected by the way the other person perceives you, not just how you actually are. Most don't know of my asexuality, and even those who do still sometimes interact with me in ways that are either cautious because of my gender or flirt because of my gender, which kind of annoys me to be honest. What I mean is that sometimes the other person views me as a sexual person and alters their behaviour accordingly, so my being asexual doesn't always have a genuine affect on communication and the way my personality is perceived by others.
As for the other items in the list, I don't think they have any true connection for me, but there were times when I mistakenly believed that they did to some extent. For instance, before I fully accepted my asexuality, I was depressed for a few years because I thought there was something physically or psychologically wrong with me in that I wasn't interested in the opposite sex the way almost everyone else around me was. Once I realized that I was only feeling pressured by an outside belief held by others, I was no longer concerned with it. I also considered maturity in this fashion at one point and, again, finally concluded that not engaging in sexual relations had no actual impact on my maturity.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some people out there who might judge my social status based on whether or not I'm dating people (and who I'd be dating if I were dating), but I think all the people who are important in my life wouldn't view social status as being connected to my asexuality at all.
I've never thought of success or intellect as being influenced by my asexuality.
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