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Demisexuality

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ThePriceOfSugar · 29/07/2022 18:03

I hate using the nouveau term for this, but it is useful shorthand.

I am 24 and single, and I find I am just not sexually attracted to anyone if I don't have an emotional or intellectual connection to them. I have zero interest in sleeping with even very attractive people without that connection.

It's not that I am playing coy or only want to do it in the context of a serious relationship, but purely that I have no arousal or interest until I am close with someone or admire them.

I'm definitely not asexual and I've experienced this with both men and women, so I don't think it's an orientation thing.

Is this normal/ a thing lots of people (women) experience? Or am I hormonally unbalanced or something? I have never had a ONS, and to some degree feel I am missing out on some fun experiences.

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MbatataOwl · 30/07/2022 14:12

surveyed 148 heterosexual Canadian university students and then 101 heterosexual online community participants about their attitudes toward asexuals

Sounds completely representative of society..

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