I’m not sure if it works for the questioning thread but hear me out.
I’m 29 and I never had a LTR, and now I’m torn on whether I’m asexual or not.
Let me start with the premise that I do realize that the modern identity politics idea of asexuality is a bit of a stretch. They will claim that everyone is asexual, including people who regularly have sex, people who have kinks and so on, while I think that true asexuals are people who just don’t get any sexual feelings at all.
And by that definition I’m definitely not asexual because I experience arousal, and I don’t mind masturbating. But I don’t think I experienced attraction to real people often. What got me wondering is some stupid comment on reddit that stated that “asexual people can have sexual drive but not sexual attraction”.
When I was a kid, I was mostly aroused by very stupid fetish stuff, which I didn’t think much about. I din’t really had any crushes, and I never fell in love with anyone.
In my teens, I read yaoi, yuri, pornographic fanfics, and it felt good. When I was 18, I realized I might be into women because I saw my friend’s boobs when she was undressing and felt aroused. But I was not necessarily attracted to her. I didn’t want to date her and found her somewhat annoying.
I was ashamed that I didn’t have any experience when I was 19-20 so I had a brief period of trying to find a boyfriend on the internet. It was rather boring experience. I wasn’t attracted to them, and I didn’t find any part of their bodies hot. The way it usually happened was this: I was going on a few dates with them, we kissed, and then I dumped them because I did not want to go further. The last guy I dated was very handsy, and I feel that I sort of gave myself anxiety by trying to force myself to be normal and have a boyfriend. I was always making up some stupid reason to escape from our dates, and even though I thought I should have sex with him, I didn’t feel comfortable doing it and telling him it would’ve been my first time, so I broke it off too.
And this is an extent of my dating experience. I switched to women after that but wasn’t very successful in it either. I found a girl on Tinder, and while I also was not very attracted to her initially, she was a great kisser, and after the first time we kiss I had this stupid thought that this is what I was made for. But it all went south after two dates. I also had a lot of “test kisses” with one of my friends, and
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