Sexuality includes wanting sex for reasons other than desire; wanting components of sex but not sexual contact itself; enjoying sexual gratification but not feeling an intense need to have sex; low or virtually absent libido; relationships that include sex but are primarily platonic, emotional, or intellectual; and attraction to any number of small details of human connection or physicality. It can also include feeling these things all the time. There’s no level of interest below which you’re only half-sexual or cross-hatched-sexual; there’s no level at which you become fully sexual.
Sexuality is shades of gray. It’s all shades of gray. And we pathologize a lot of facets of human sexuality, but saying that they’re therefore not-sexuality makes about as much sense as saying that same-gender sexual desire is something besides sexuality.
(Source: missvoltairine, via mikroblogolas)
9:46 am • 13 February 2012 • 116 notes • #sexuality #demisexuality
