Sep 26 2008
The Last Sexual Taboo
What do you think is the last sexual taboo? A sexual orientation or lifestyle nobody would believe it was normal or permanent, so that almost everyone would advise you to seek treatment, ask if you had a traumatic sexual experience or just hadn’t had ‘proper’ sex yet and seen the light?
How about asexuality? Have you seen an asexual pride floats? Do you know of any asexuality symbols (shown here)? Can you name a celebrity that has come out as asexual? Be honest here… if a friend or family member told you they were asexual, what would you think? Would you even be sure what they meant by it?
It is a sign of the times that the last sexual demographic group of people still feel to openly say is just a disorder is the sexual ‘aberration’ of not wanting to have sex. For more information visit AVEN: the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.
I am reminded of my time in highschool durung the ‘girls can do anything’ campaign. Some teachers seemed to interpret any girl’s ability to do math and science as a reason why they shold elect to learn those subjects even if it did not interest them.
There only a problem is if you are not happy and comfortable with what comes naturally to you. A normal woman can be sexual, any kind of sexuality, and that includes none at all.
“Asexuality” is a term I have only seen used by the unattractive girls I went to high school with. It goes along with the emo culture. Bisexuality, now there’s something that people get real grief for, from heterosexuals AND homosexuals. However, the last sexual taboo would probably be transexuality. It’s part of a spectrum that the majority of us just can’t empathize with. Try to imagine living your entire life in a body that doesn’t feel like your own.
Hi WR, I’ll be right over :)
Finger has a point, to a point. I know I can empathize with transexuals, although it is hard to fully understand. Sure, they aren’t widely accepted by the mainstream, but people are at least making efforts to understand these people and there are communities for transexuals.
Asexuals, however, have no community to call their own. There’s really no one to side with and most people don’t even call it a sexual abnormality — you’re just a social outcast. Or you have Asperger’s or some mental disorder.
Regardless of chance or choice, everyone looks at you weird for being a virgin into your late twenties and thirties.