Regards, Ivan
Posted on 10/14/2004 1:13:38 AM PDT by MadIvan
THE sexual revolution of the 1960s gave rise to a generation who fought with the law to sleep with men, women or both at the same time. Today, a new generation are fighting for the right to sleep alone.
People who are glad to be "A" are coming out of the closet to declare they have no interest in sex, according to a new study.
Some research suggests there are almost as many asexuals as there are gay individuals.
A report in the journal New Scientist reveals they are starting to insist on their right not to have sex. Many adherents now believe asexual activism could soon mirror the gay revolution.
Although some might simply have low libidos, others claim to represent a new category of sexual orientation.
Despite having sex drives, these people are not remotely attracted to either gender.
Brian, an asexual navy veteran from Virginia, USA, said: "The place where we draw the line is the desire to interact sexually with other people."
Although such a category of sexual identity has never before been claimed, certain historical figures could have fitted the "type" without themselves being aware of it.
PG Wodehouse was married to his wife Ethel for 60 years, but the couple never had children. His biographer, Joseph Connolly, recently wrote: "I think it is entirely possible that he was asexual, as indifferent to the whole business as he was to anything that did not involve books, writing, cricket, golf, television soap operas and Pekingese dogs."
David Hume, the Scottish philosopher, never married. There are no records of any romantic relationships in his life, and biographers instead refer to his preference for engaging in debates at Edinburgh’s Select Society.
Dr Anthony Bogaert, a psychologist at Brock University in Canada, has just published the first study to try to estimate the prevalence of asexuality.
He drew on a survey of sexual practices among more than 18,000 people in the UK published in 1994.
The survey did not specifically focus on the issue of asexuality, but did include questions about sexual attraction.
One option offered was: "I have never felt sexually attracted to anyone at all." One per cent of participants chose this option. The figure was not far behind the rate for same-sex attraction, now believed to be running at 3 per cent.
Another American researcher, Nicole Prause, a PhD student at Indiana University, recruited asexuals via the internet to ask them about their sexual experience, arousability and desire levels.
She found that people who describe themselves as asexuals are often having sex when they do not really want to.
Her study suggests that asexuality is not a kind of illness. "People are using it as their sexual orientation," she told New Scientist.
As one T-shirt puts it: "Asexuality: it’s not just for amoebas any more."
... While the 'promiscuous' 10% contribute to a crisis
ONE in ten adult women and one in eight adult men have two partners concurrently, according to a medical study that calls for tough new measures to combat the UK’s sexual health crisis.
The report, published in the BMA specialist publication, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, also highlights Britain’s problem with the seedy side of sex, with surveys revealing that up to 5 per cent of adult men have paid for sex, increasing the chances of contracting a sexual disease.
According to Professor Mark Bellis, who compiled the study with colleagues from the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University:
"By and large our attempts to avoid a sexual health crisis and, more recently, to manage it, have failed. At the core of this crisis is an unwillingness to deal with the ‘promiscuous’ 10 per cent: a significant group of people who have multiple sexual partners."
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Same here. Libs find the next trendy wave in societal evolution.
The pagan culture Impuritans cannot understand those who live for something higher than their genitals.
I bet. It's much less messy to interact only with your computer screen or your TV ... or an inflatable friend.
Why are people sooo stupid and follow these stupid fads???
Ya know, at least they won't be reproducing.
Or not to interact in that manner at all, with anything.
Been saying for the last ten years that forcing people into declaring a sexual preference was very hurtful. I think it threw some confused people,who actually had no sexual attraction to anyone,to assume they were homosexual.
I am glad it's on the table,really nothing wrong with it if that's the way it is. I can attest to it from several perspectives.
How many times have we heard:"As a teen,I knew I was different"?
Could be that lacking libido in a society that seems to think the world will stop turning if it's not fueled by sexual activity,they decided that they must be homosexual because they sure weren't interested in the opposite sex. Then along comes a peer,teacher,sex educator,or even a magazine article telling them that same sex attraction often makes young people feel "different". I think this is hot.
My guess -- simply a guess -- is that some kind of fetishism is involved with these folks. They become aroused at some "thing" associated with one gender or the other (be it the same, or different), but recoil at the idea of having intercourse with a person. Like the kid who gets all hot for his mama's apron or his brother's sneakers. There are virtually no really credible answers in the secular world for such people -- it tells them hey, if it turns you on, go right ahead.
Now, in addition to these folks being intellectually on par with amoebae, they're now sexually on par with them as well.
Luckily, it'll be pretty hard for them to keep this movement going through reproduction.
I hate that commercial on television for one of the female sexual enhancement products. It sends the message that a woman who is not willing to jump into bed anytime, anywhere and jump on the bed because she can't wait to get started, is defective. Once she begins to use the product and behave like a rabbit, then she is "herself" again and is as she was meant to be. I turn the channel when this thing is played. It is so irritation to reduce women to their genitals. A good sexual relationship where both people desire it can be a comforting thing if adultery does not enter the picture. However, nothing is worse than feeling pressure to have sex with someone without the desire to do so. I think this study is probably exactly correct and should be talked about more to take pressure off those who do not want to participate.
We have been invaded by genderless space aliens.
or
20th century joke was a lobotomy,
21st century joke will be a libidomy.
A "the ignorance on this thread is overpowering" ping.
(A particular NYC female radio host comes to mind, she was then sworn to a secularist's high-chasity yet her evident reaction -- giving a bit o a "tip-off", I am -- when she came to speak to our group of hormonally super-charged college students, mostly male, told a different story.)
There isn't a soul alive on earth that can not be reached sexually, if someone or some circumstancial nexus of events gives it it full go.
I don't know how this plays on your side of the ocean--everyone laissez faire over there?--but I was horrified by Kerry's support last nite for men who leave their wives to go into an adulterous homosexual relationship. How would you like to be the 5- or 10- or 15-year-old son or daughter of a man who did that to your mother??
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