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To: GOP_Raider; WFTR
Dad and I have a friend who we would consider asexual. He has no interest whatsoever in sex and basically does not really understand physical attraction.

He is a great guy and a good friend but in some ways a sad figure as he never has and never will have a special person in his life. Also he does not have any very close friends many acquaintances but no real soul mate male or female. The nearest to a true friend I would say was at one time when he lived a lot nearer and dad was more mobile was dad.

Many men do not want to get too close to him as they wonder if he is a closet homosexual but there is nothing like that he has no sexual feelings or understanding of them be male or female.

In fact the whole thing has past over his head he lives for soccer and has worked in the industry in a professional administration role but would never progress to the top though has the skills because again there is the question mark over his sexuality and where there are young males this means no progress for our friend. This is sad because he would have made a great senior administrator for a professional club.

One example of how ignorant and uninterested he is in sexual things. Many years ago he was telling us some red hot news he had learned about a take over of a soccer club by prominent middle eastern business men. He said lesbian business men, I had to walk away from to avoid laughing out-loud and that left it to dad to explain they were Lebanese not lesbian. His response to this was “is there a difference?”. I overheard this and had to walk even further away as this time I could not contain my laughter.

Dad then explained the difference and Malcolm our friend was shocked he had never heard of such a thing and did not realise that some women got up to these practices. He thought it disgusting and totally beyond his comprehension.

We are still fairly close (dad spoke to him on the phone today) to him and he actually turned up at our house on the day of my mother’s funeral which I will always be grateful to him as this helped dad so much to have Malcolm to occupy his mind and remember many good times.

39 posted on 09/22/2007 3:23:11 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - Big Time))
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To: snugs

It sounds to me that your friend would be what a lot of people here in the US would consider a “loner”. Perhaps because sexuality—in whatever form it takes on—is so ubiquitous here in the “West” that most people tend to view his situation in a sexual context (i.e.: “is he gay”? “Is he impotent”?, and so on.)


40 posted on 09/22/2007 3:39:37 PM PDT by GOP_Raider ("I guess I like to do things that bother people." -Urban Meyer)
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