[ SECRET POST #183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #183 ⌋

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Notes:

Might have taken one from the recent submission post. Sorry about that!

PS - I hate HTML

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Comments

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

You're entitled to your opinions, but I would like to point out that asexuality is neither a pathological disorder nor being voluntarily celibate.

[imre-nico.livejournal.com]

"Voluntary celibacy" is a term that was created by people (most of whom largely identify as asexual) who do not choose or want to have sex, to differentiate themselves from involuntary celibates- those unfortunate people who want to and can't find anyone willing to screw them.

Maybe you put yourself in the latter camp (?), but I didn't get that impression.

While I don't think there's anything harmful in being asexual, I would respectfully disagree with it not being a pathology, which is defined as

3.) any deviation from a healthy, normal, or efficient condition.

I wouldn't call it unhealthy, nor is it particularly inefficient, but in my opinion it does satisfy condition number two.

normal:

Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type; typical.

People love to say that everything is normal. That is not true. That is people being weird and uncomfortable about semantic, and not wanting to be "abnormal" because they see the word as a label of as deviancy.

All the same, some things are not normal. Because there is an average that defines the norm, no matter how hard we click our heels together and say it isn't so.

Being asexual is not a normal condition. That is not to say it is bad- there are a lot of things that are abnormal to the larger population that are not undesirable or pernicious in any way.

But as biology programs standard living organisms to seek out, desire and form social bonds that include sexual expressions, a deviation from that blueprint is just that- a deviation.

Homosexuality is a normative condition. Heterosexuality is a normative condition. These are types of sexuality.

A prefix of "a/" means without. That is not a sexuality. It is an absence of sexuality. An absence of a thing is not simply a form of that thing.

Some people have blue eyes, some people have brown eyes. Some people are born blind, or "asighted".

I think you would agree that being born blind, while not bad or inherently harmful, presents some unique challenges in the a world largely inhabited by sighted people- and that being born blind is not "the norm" among homo sapiens.