La Révolution Asexualle

[Yanagi]

Okay, so I typed in asexuelle into google to see what I could come up with and ended up with a book, La Révolution Asexualle by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac. I tried to translate the back of the book from the small image I found but I can't figure out the scientific french.

I can get a bit of a gist and it sounds negative but I'm not quite sure. Asexuals, celibates and non-libidoists are all mentioned along with people who remain virgins until marriage and those whose religion prohibits lust. Most likely the author mixed up and few to many things but I'd still like to figure out what it says.

If anyone can read scientific french and would like to try translating, go for it. Sorry I'm not able to.

Also let me know if this book has already been discovered and posted about.

[Preskom]

It is spelled 'asexuelle'

I'll translate (sorry if it sounds weird...it sounds weird in french too)

'' In our society we are not supposed to only think about that, who really makes love? Not those young people who stay virgin until marriage, not those asexuals or non-libidoistes who refuse any reference to sexuality. Even less those whose religion prohibits to nuture concupiscence* thinking.

But are they doing it more? Those singles who dream to acces the other's body? Do they enjoy it, those who see their partner refuse them? Are they pleasured, those web surfers who virtualise the meeting through a screen? Do they know huge exitements, those who put off to be defective and refrain to verify?

I gathered up testimony of those who, par choice or constraint, don't make love. I have gathered them up with reflexions from sexuality specialists. From this investigation, The results are that occidentals don't feel guilty anymore from not doing it.

Those singular experiences call upon us to meditate on the position of pleasure in our existances, beyond the claim that is default ''

*not sure if it is in english... related to marrige, couples, living togheter, sex, ect...)

[inter\m/ent]

Thanks for sharing for Shvaugn and Preskom

book subtitle: To not make love, a new social phenomenon.

edit to Preskom's (sorry =P) In a society where it is apparently the only thing on everyone's mind, who really makes love?...['concupiscence' is an english word too, yes] [There's an allusion to 'Do they get off...' in those questions; P2 last line]...those who fear to be defective and refrain to verify?

Those peculiar/out-of the ordinary experiences invite the reader to reflect upon the role of (sexual) pleasure in our lives, beyond the advertisement that it receives (the big deal that it is made to be)

[knout]

Preskom did a pretty good job translating it, it's not so easy, but I think the first sentence is more in the lines of : "In a society where we're supposed to only think about it, who does really make love?"

(oh yes, fragmented mind said it already :P)

the last line of P2 would translate "Do they experience great excitements, those afraid of being defective and refrain to check?" I think he's referencing to sexuals who are too afraid of failure and therefore disregard sexual relations..

From the mere point of view of that back of the book it seems pretty fair towards asexuals, although probably also dealing with other topic who are not asexuals but related (the usual low-libido, abstinence etc), it sounds interesting to me