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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.
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    • Indifferent-asexual: Enh, whatever floats their boat. I'm not disgusted, just not interested.
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I'm repulsed, maybe because I had entirely too much sex before I said "no more." Ick, like a food that repulses you so much you feel sick.

Forensic, where could I download a copy of your blue-eyed cat photo?

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mypsychoticself

What about in between? I'm completely repulsed when I apply sexuality to myself, but am indifferent about others' sexuality. For example, I can see PDA with no problems, but I would never participate in it.

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Solodancer1

I drift between interested in sex physically but really indifferent to doing anything about it since it goes away on its own, indifferent in all ways, forgetting it exists though not for as long as I could before a lifetime of people screaming into my ears about it all the time, and serious, physical as wellas emotional, deep repulsion and nausea. I know the last attitude is wrong because God invented sex and He is good, but it's a physical/emotional/visceral gut reaction. I don't know. Sometimes I think my lack of interest is actually a gift helping me stay chaste until marriage. But I'm getting a little old to get married and besides the thought of marriage upsets me so deeply I have been known to get seriously depressed just by trying to imagine it. I really doubt the right person is out there for me. I think I am the right person for me, if anything. :lol: So if it's a gift it's a keeper.

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Hurricane Camille

Mostly indifferent, I suppose. I'm not disgusted by others having sex or talking about sex. When someone wants to do it with me (which is rare), I can get a bit sick, though. It's really hard to place me.

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Ankh Ascendant

I'm with the person on the front page of posts... Avoidant, really ^^ But I voted Indiferent. I don't find the idea repulsive or particularly disgusting, although I certainly don't want to know someone is doing it in the next room... I can actually read adult stories just fine, and picture it in a detached third person sense, but trying to put together sex + me simply does not compute. .__.

I hav to agree with some other people, though... The sound of kissing is disgusting. Kind of like hearing someone eat. When I see someone in a movie sucking on someone else's bottom lip or trying to eat their tonsils, I roll my eyes and then avert them until the making out is done with.

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ReturntoWaldenPond

I'm generally indifferent; I'm married and I have sex, and it's okay, but I don't really care about it all that much. I like the way it feels physically and I like the way my husband treats me afterward, but I don't feel a need to have it. My husband, on the other hand, starts acting weird and crazy when we don't have sex for a long time. Actually, in all honesty, I find sex very hilarious. lol. I joke about it all the time, and I don't understand why people take it so seriously all the time.

I've never really "lusted" after anyone. I do get aroused randomly from time to time, and when I "take care" of the arousal, I think about what I need to buy at the grocery store, whether or not I fed the dog, I need to call my Mom, worship practice, etc.

There are some aspects of sexuality which UTTERLY repulse me. If it's not between two people that love each other (ESPECIALLY BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW EACH OTHER), then I find it gross. I think Pornography is repulsive, as well as strip clubs. And in general, if I think too much about sex, I get grossed out. The sounds, the smells, the way people look ... thinking about the actual mechanics (you're sticking a body part in to another body part of someone else and squirting bodily fluids into someone else ... ew). When I see pornographic or sexually racy stuff, I get sick to my stomach & so forth. I hate seeing people making out or fondling each other. I hate seeing people "grinding" (dancing promiscuously). I used to think it was just because I was a prude, but aside from the immoral implications, it makes me want to throw up. And that's just NORMAL sex ... some of the crazier stuff makes me REALLY SICK.

I think that procreation is a beautiful thing, but not so much the act of procreating. :mellow:

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Indifferent, but actually interested in how it all works (scientifically). I simply don't care about doing it myself, and I don't feel any attraction (of any kind, really, other than a vague 'familiarity' with some people) at all. I haven't had sex, but I do know what the physical feelings would be like, and whilst it's a pleasant feeling that's it, and whilst I do get aroused I don't feel like I have an 'itch' to be 'scratched'. (I suppose the act is scratching an itch - when I do my attention is on what my hand is doing - but it doesn't feel like it needs sratching)

On the other hand, non-vaginal sex seems strange and alien to me. It's not repulsion as such, more a complete failure to fully comprehend it and see it's value.

I say that, but I don't think much repulses me anyway. I'm also pretty unemotional as well.

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Repulsed, but sex is interesting as a social, biological and psychological thing.

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I'm rather indifferent to it, to be honest. It's just never been a big part of my life and I don't really think it ever will be. Even if my friends start talking about their sex lives, I'll listen with mild interest only because they're my friends, but otherwise, I'll keep quiet and think about things I need to do (homework, for example).

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bitterforsweet

I try to rationalize myself into being indifferent, but at the end of the day I'm still repulsed. :unsure:

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I'm somewhere in the middle too. I don't care if other people are having sex so in that way I'm rather indifferent. I find the impact of sex on our culture and the way it is used to market products to be fascinating. I don't like watching sex scenes in movies or on television as they make me feel a little uncomfortable and the idea of myself being involved in having sex is just beyond gross.

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Rising Moon Droplet

I haven't voted because I don't really like either of the choices. I am repulsed by the thought of me having sex, but I'm indifferent towards others having sex.

There really does need to be an in-between option, as I see lots of in-between answers here. :3

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Mr. Cuddlebunny

I voted for indifferent, but it really does depend.

See, if we were talking about me having sex, I'd be utterly repulsed. The idea makes me shudder, and I doubt I'd ever be able to willingly go through with it. I have no desire to do so, thus far have never had, and while I can't predict the future, I'm fairly certain that I never will.

If we're just talking about sex in general though, well... to each their own, and all that. If it's not harming anyone, do what you want. It's one of those things that's morbidly fascinating I suppose. I have no actual interest in it and certainly don't want to see or hear about it, but whenever I stumble across anything that relates I'll just have a sort of "Oh, right" reaction, rather than an "EWW." (Obviously it depends on the subject matter of course, since some things are a bit odd if you ask me, but I'm talking generally.) I also roleplay a lot, and I've even written some steamier things if a situation's called for it. That doesn't make me uncomfortable in the least (the only time it feels a little awkward is because I'm not entirely sure how someone actually WOULD react in that sort of situation, so I feel it may be off). When it comes down to it, it is only text, and heck, there's hundreds of things I do with roleplay that I never could in reality.

But sex in real life (involving me)... no. Nooo no no. No.

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I'm indifferent. but there are certain things I find repulsive.

I really do not like the way penises look. no offense to our male-As.

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I voted Indifferent-asexual, but I'm not sure: never tried anything more sexual than french kissing, so although the idea of sex does not repulse me, I'm don't know how things would go if I actually tried to have sex.

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Cadmium Poisoning

I voted repulsed-asexual, though I don't care what people do if I don't have to see/hear/sense in some other way what they do. (If I did, that's when I get disgusted.)

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I try to rationalize myself into being indifferent, but at the end of the day I'm still repulsed. :unsure:

Yeah, I think I'm in this boat as well.

I really do not like the way penises look. no offense to our male-As.

OMG, even when I try to get past some things, I can't set aside the fact that sex organs are pretty much the ugliest things ever, ugh.

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CombustibleAlgae

I don't know how to vote. Dx

I go through phases where I'll be fine with sex, and all things related, so far as it doesn't apply to me. But at other times just the thought of anything related to it makes me sick. Dx I suppose I'll vote repulsed then~ xD

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DarthMarth

Way on the repulsed side. I find the thought of anything related to sex disgusting.

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I really do not like the way penises look. no offense to our male-As.

OMG, even when I try to get past some things, I can't set aside the fact that sex organs are pretty much the ugliest things ever, ugh.

sooo true! can't quite decide which one grosses me out more, male or female (maybe female a bit more), while I don't have a problem with human anatomy in general. And there are some people who find genitals beautiful!! I'd really like to venture into the minds of such people to fint out how they think... (or do I?) For me, I'd love if it was like in Dogma, where the angels had nothing in there and when I was younger I was thinking whether such an operation is possible.

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Voted indifferent, but it's definitely not a passive thing. I cannot take the idea of being sexual with anyone myself, much less doing it. If the rest of humanity wants to engage, ok.

But don't knock on my door, count me out.

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ravenofroses

i voted indifferent, but this is rather a lie.

sex and sexuality fascinate me to no end.

i am vulgar and can hold my own in the most explicit of discussions.

because sex repulses me, i have a deep need to understand it.

to know why people bother to have sex at all.

tho i could not condescend to "try" it, even in the name of science.

what do we make of that, i wonder?

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Hannibal Lecter

Towards the act of sex i'm pretty much repulsed but in case of other things such as hugs, touches, etc sometimes repulsed but mostly indifferent.

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I'm not really sure how to answer this one. In an abstract way I find sex kind of repulsive yet fascinating (it's this thing that I'll never really understand, which makes it interesting, but the few times I looked at porn it just kind of grossed me out). As far as me personally, I'm kind of indifferent, but if someone really wanted to do it with me I might be willing to give it a try. When other people are acting sexual around me, that always makes me pretty uncomfortable.

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House of Chimeras

I’m mostly just indifferent and unintended in sex and things of a sexual nature, though in some ways I am slightly repulsed by it as well.

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Ohh wow from what ive read i always assumed that the number of repulsed asexuals would be much much much higher.

Nice to know that asexuals principles and well everything seem to be spread over such a wide area, although it does become a little extremely hard to explain

in-different asexual btw

done it feels decidedly un-natural but meh like it says whatever floats there boat

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