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FAQ: Repulsed-A or Indifferent-A?


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R-A or I-A?  

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    • Repulsed-asexual: I find sex and all sexual things to be absolutely disgusting.
      589
    • Indifferent-asexual: Enh, whatever floats their boat. I'm not disgusted, just not interested.
      1571

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  • 2 weeks later...

I'm indifferent. I don't have anything against it I just don't feel any desire to do it myself. Though I do find sex to be rather disgusting, I wouldn't say I'm repulsed by it.

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wow yeah, me too....in an attempt to not copy what you just said, i do find sex itself to be intriguing but i'd probly start swinging if anybody tried to touch me like that

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I'm somewhere in the middle.

It grosses me out, but if other people feel the desire to do it, then do it. I just don't want to see anything.

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yeah. me too.

actually I was wondering

is there anything in between repulsed-A and indifferent-A ?

naw, don't come up with

-"sexual"

I've thought it up, but... no.

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yes. there is "curious, detached" -a, for example. A slight interest, but no personal connections wanted. Kind of like with any other expeariance that is so highly praised... If everyone else was drinking coke so happily, and you had never had any, wouldn't you just wonder what it was like? even if you didn't actually want to try any.

I am a detached, frightened person when it comes to any contact unless I have known the person for years and years. That said, I still will engage in no activity beyond hugging and the occasional unromantic cuddling, it is for contact. I would never ever let anyone touch me romantically or vise versa. Nor see me less than fully clothed.

I have no interest in hearing about any kinds of sexual activity, no real details. I find it discussing what happens in the bathrooms that isn't talked about, and I do feel sick seeing people kiss on the street. or anywhere else. And more than that... no.

So I would say that I am repulsed. I voted indifferant though... I went and changed my mind now. But I am indifferant for some, and repulsed at others.

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Perhaps I'm an oddball, but it's not so much sex that I'm indifferent to as it is sex involving other people. Sex response doesn't repulse me - in fact, it feels quite good - but I've never been sexually attracted to anyone - it's just a biological response that's mine and never needs someone outside myself to work. I've had sex, and I was generally indifferent, although quite often I found it awkward and unnatural, likely because I wasn't "in the moment" like my partner. It makes the act an alien one. In hindsight, I've noticed I feel some embarrassment when I think about the past events, again most likely because the actual act is pretty damned odd when you're not driven to do it. "I did that? Oh dear god. What was I thinking? That's just weird." Like sticking a pencil up my nose. There just wasn't any purpose to it for me.

Rae

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Sex doesn't repulse me. The idea of pregnancy and giving birth repulse me. But hey, if people want to procreate, that's up to them. I'd just die if I ever turned up pregnant (for which happening, a snowball has a greater chance of surving in a cremation furnace on the face a sun in the greater regions of hell).

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Not disturbing at all for me. Just don't care. So, "Indifferent".

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I am sorry, but I seem to subconciously associate sex with public defecation or sneezing on somebody. There is just no way that I am going to want to have it as I find myself cringing at the idea.

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Heh, I call myself an 'intellectual pervert'... my attitude toward sex is rather like turning over paving stones with a stick and watching the millipedes run for cover. It's -interesting-, in a weird way, but I don't want to get too close to it.

Great Metaphor! It's exactly how I feel. I know more about sex that a lot of people and have a lot of interest in learning about it; I just have no interest in participation.

BTW- I abstained from voting in this poll, because it depends on the day, though, I guess most of the time I just have no interest.

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Oh YA! Repulsed. I think sex is disgusting. I can't even stand watching animals do it on animal channel let alone in person. :shock:

I find it interesting that yet again I'm in the minority. Only 1 out of 4 asexuals find the sex act disgusting. :D

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PrairieWinds~
Generally, I'm not repulsed by others having sex if I'm aware of it from a distance. Books don't bother me, films don't bother me. (Generally, watching films, I just think it looks boring, though I realize your typical missionary romp doesn't display the entire oeuvre.) When I was younger and thought about sex, I always pictured two other people (from books or movies) having sex, and never me. A year ago when I was still trying to feel sexual I downloaded some porn and it didn't really disgust me (well, I tried very hard to get some 'nice' porn), but it didn't turn me on, either.

I am a bit grossed out by watching people kiss in public, hearing sex in the next room (oh, to have one's own place!), and definitely by the thought of engaging in anything more than hand-holding and some cuddling (not really touching) myself.

I voted for indifference - because that's the way I've felt for some time now. VT..your words pretty much sum it all up for me.

PrairieWinds.

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There is nothing worse than when your roommate decides to use your bed for sex instead of his own, and then you come home to stained and crusty sheets along with that horrible smell.

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I dont know how I should vote?

I dont find sex repulsive, I just find the way its treated repulsive. I cant stand that the ONLY VOW OF LOVE this world really offers us requires sex.

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By the way...how do you get those stains out of your sheets?

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I think I'm a bit of both.

If other people want to have sex, fine. As long as I don't hear it or see it. But I feel repulsed when I imagine myself having sex or doing sexual things. I also don't like it when I see people in movies having sex.

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rainyrose77
I think I'm a bit of both.

If other people want to have sex, fine. As long as I don't hear it or see it. But I feel repulsed when I imagine myself having sex or doing sexual things. I also don't like it when I see people in movies having sex.

i agree, i don't like seeing it or doing it - but people can still have sex. OTHER PEOPLE HAVING SEX is my indifference.

i voted repulsive...

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SomeoneElse

It is like death.

I do not care about the 60 million people who die every day, just as long as it is not me, or in front of me.

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Charlieee

I chose repulsed.

I mean, I'm not seriously repulsed, but the thought of sex makes me go "ewwww"...

I remember in third grade, when we started getting the Sex Talk from our school nurse about puberty and stuff, when she first explained what sex was to us, and while everyone around me was like "ooooooh sex...." I was a bit on the grossed out side... squirmy and everything.

Hey, I'm squeamish :lol:

So, yeah, something like that...

EDIT: Right now, the poll shows 24% for repulsed and 75% for indifferent.

...does it bother anyone else that it only adds up to 99%? :lol:

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Perhaps I'm an oddball, but it's not so much sex that I'm indifferent to as it is sex involving other people. Sex response doesn't repulse me - in fact, it feels quite good - but I've never been sexually attracted to anyone - it's just a biological response that's mine and never needs someone outside myself to work. I've had sex, and I was generally indifferent, although quite often I found it awkward and unnatural, likely because I wasn't "in the moment" like my partner. It makes the act an alien one. In hindsight, I've noticed I feel some embarrassment when I think about the past events, again most likely because the actual act is pretty damned odd when you're not driven to do it. "I did that? Oh dear god. What was I thinking? That's just weird." Like sticking a pencil up my nose. There just wasn't any purpose to it for me.

Rae

Seems a good way of describing how I feel about it too Rae.

roddy

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At first I thouht I was indifferent, but when I thought about my reaction in the past when I've had sex, and I guess I'm actually repulsed. Oddly enough, the idea of sex doesn't bother me, and I'm also indifferent to the memory of it.

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