CosineTheCat Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Heavy Meddle: Help! I Fell In Love With An Asexual / WBUR By Steve Almond Published: August 3, 2015 Dear Steve, My boyfriend and I met two years ago when we were sophomores in college. It was love at first sight — we’ve practically been inseparable ever since, and he’s my best friend. The only problem is, he’s recently confided to me that he is asexual. Full Text: http://cognoscenti.w...19-steve-almond Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherWeasley Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Well, I agree that it might be best for them to break up if their definitions of a happy romantic relationship are so different, but I kinda feel like the response places all the "blame", for want of a better word, on the asexual partner. Her boyfriend most probably doesn't regard sex as necessary to a healthy relationship or indeed "one of the central pleasures of being alive". And without ever having been in a romantic relationship myself (or having been interested in being in one) I think it's a very strange idea that one partner should owe the other sex. If I were the allosexual partner, I wouldn't be able to enjoy sex, knowing that the other person was only doing it to please me... Link to post Share on other sites
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