Sexuals! Opinions please!
Friday, 7 March 2008, 11:10I found this on AVEN: Two possible attitudes of sexual people to sexuality
Are these in any way realistic or unrealistic? Do you, or other sexual people you know, really think this way?
If they are realistic, I'm going to want to dissect you all gibber gratefully in a corner that I don't speak to enough sexuals about personal matters to have experienced reactions like this have to think a lot more extraterrestrially in order to portray sexual characters in my writing...
Also interesting: confessions of an asexual slut.
If you were wondering, I think of sexuality in terms of hormones, pair bonding and assorted cultural romantic notions, all irretrievably linked with some form of child-rearing instinct (albeit implemented in various ways in practice), and that's how I approach sexual characters—as biological machines overlaid with unconscious instinct and prejudice and many, not necessarily logical, conscious thoughts and ideas on top of that. That's also how I approach characters who eat, sleep or make friends. Is this wrong?
edit: how a sexual thinks of asexuals. I don't, myself, ever feel oppressed or treated prejudicially about it, but apart from that I'm with him completely.
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