Dear community and everyone:
Please stop saying “physical attraction” as if it’s a synonym for sexual attraction. Asexual people who experience sensual attraction are experiencing an attraction that is literally physical. Asexuality is about not experiencing sexual attraction, not about not experiencing physical attraction, although sexual attraction might be in the category of physical attractions.
Tagged: asexuals, if i separate my attraction into enough subcategories maybe i can pretend it doesn’t exist, I define the meaning of words now! Do not defy me!, words mean things, split those hairs finer! finer!, i will do all the mental gymnastics necessary to stay a part of this subculture.
Reblogging for watchful-entity’s amazingly accurate tags
@___________@
this is where language goes to die and is reborn as a beautiful asexual phoenix
That first thing makes “physical attraction” sound like some kind of magnetic thing. (Fucking asexuals, how do they work?)
Physical attraction has been a euphemism for sexual attraction for forever, though.
Thinking that we need euphemisms for sex, sexual relationships and sexual attraction sounds a tad slut-shaming to me. And clearly, desiring precision (and less slut-shaming) in language is the most absolutely outrageous & ridiculous request.
- the OP
This entry was published on 30 May 2012 and has 156 note(s).
It was tagged: anti-ace brigade, anti-ace, sensual attraction, sexual attraction, ace invalidation,
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