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> surface-level, material ugliness of other humans What does this mean? If it's just physical attraction, why not date more attractive people?

• IgorPartola 7y ago
  Not the person you are asking but if you think about it, sex is weird, gross, and makes you very vulnerable. For some that is offset by it being wonderful and hot and sexy, while for others it takes more to go past the reality of it. That’s why the asexual spectrum is a thing: not everyone is down with getting down. And because as a society we expect sex and sexual attraction to be the norm, people on that spectrum may not always be out about it. Not saying the other poster is on that spectrum, just pointing out that many different brain configuration exist, with some going “all the sex” all the way to “sex? No thanks.”
  • davidjnelson 7y ago
    That makes sense. It seems about 1% of the population is asexual from some quick googling.
    • IgorPartola 7y ago
      My guess is that it is slightly higher than that because often times the label “asexual” is applied to people who have 0 interest in sex, while others experience a reduced emphasis on sex, hence the “spectrum” part. Also it isn’t something people openly admit to it, so it suffers from the same problem as trying to quantify the numbers of people who identify as bisexual.
      • mercer 7y ago
        And then there's people who the label could be applied to, but spent much of their lives trying to conform to more socially acceptable ideas about sexuality.