Yeah, I'd stay away from that one. She had a lot of fail the past couple of years.

Sure, but she had a Moment.

Interesting. IO9 has a post about asexuality. What keeps getting me is that asexuals have a lot more sex than I'd think.

IO9 has a post about asexuality.

Huh. It keeps referring to Big Bang Theory:

Most often, say asexuals, the problem is that people don't realize that asexuality is — as the characters in Big Bang Theory put it — "a deal."

I totally don't remember the show addressing asexuality, but I did miss 1 or 2 episodes this season.

For a while in my 20s I called myself asexual just because I was tired of people asking me why I never dated or had sex with anyone or telling me I must be gay. Of course I was sexually attracted to people back then; I just wasn't sexually active.

I have a friend who's 45 and is still a virgin. I've always seen her as kind of asexual, but recently she told me she's never had sex because she's afraid of "losing control."

Hey, all! Been a bit behind the past couple of weeks due to life and end-of-school stuff.

Yay, Jon and FAQWife!!! Congrats!!!

Kathy A., this is from a while back, but I find some really cute dresses for the $50-70 range at Dress Barn (unfortunate store name, but it does have cute stuff). In fact, I have on one of their dresses today, with a green shrug. I can't overstate my love of the shrug.

We are in our downhill run for school now. My show was last week (the kids totally rocked it, so proud of them). Grades are due today. Six Flags trip tomorrow. 8th grade graduation on Monday. Woot! Almost done! The past week has been crazy busy and in the middle of it all, our building flooding last week did not help.

I'll have to head over to the Dress Barn in Palatine, then--thanks, ChiKat! (BTW, we really should get together some weekend soon.)

Did the 8th graders get down to Springfield, or is that not a regular thing anymore like it was when I was a kid? I remember when we went, we took a side trip to the Six Flags in St. Louis as well.

I read something on livejournal about asexuality recently. I think I was skimming around through different people's friends lists so I'm not exactly sure where I read it. But it was talking about asexuality and how being asexual doesn't exactly mean the same thing to everyone. Which makes sense - like there are some people who are asexual and don't want romantic relationships at all, but some asexuals do want a romantic relationship.

It also had links to fanfic that dealt with asexuality. A lot of it was SGA based with Sheppard being asexual.

NillyBaby is too cute for words!

Congrats Jon and FAQWife!

I just got my walking papers from the Radiology doctor. One more doctor/department down! YAY.

But it was talking about asexuality and how being asexual doesn't exactly mean the same thing to everyone.

If I can tweak this a little -- asexuality doesn't *look* the same in every asexual person (as you said, some are aromantic, some are heteroromantic/biromantic/homoromantic), but overall, the common characteristic is that, regardless of romantic orientation, asexual people don't experience primary sexual attraction. If a person experiences primary sexual attraction, "asexual" is very likely not the right descriptor for them.

(Granted that people can and will and do choose to identify in all kinds of ways that don't always make sense -- obviously there are going to be people who, for instance, *do* experience primary sexual attraction and yet call themselves asexual -- in order to make some kind of sense of "asexual" as an orientation, then I'm sticking with "for the vast goddamn majority, 'asexual' = 'does not experience primary sexual attraction'.")

Asexuality has nothing to do with sexual activity, and aces can and do have sex, often quite a lot, as ita noted. (That gets into the areas of demisexuality and gray-A, which have both gotten slammed recently in certain areas of LJ as "slut-shaming" and not "true" orientations. Stay classy, LJ.)

Don't let the radiology door hit ya where the good lord split ya!