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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess that explains it, thank you.

for me, romantic attraction just feels like an extension, a stronger form of platonic attraction

Oh yes I'm completely with you on that one, i think... but then I also feel like for me personally sexual attraction is an extension of romantic attraction. It's all about how you interpret your feelings I guess...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot of it. Like sex is also just a good way to acheive intimacy with someone you care about.

The big thing for asexual people is how you view people you aren't already attracted to in other ways. Most people can find people they barely know sexually attractive. For example celebrity crushes or finding a certain porn model hot. For an asexual person that is a foreign concept. I've never seen someone and desired to have sex with them because of how they look. It's not that we don't know when people are good looking but we don't really feel anything towards them just because they are. That's also not to say asexual people never watch porn it's just that when we do it's about the act taking place not the people in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah that makes sense. I'm not sure about sex but I definitely can desire intimacy only based on looks or general vibe so then I guess I actually do feel some kind of romantic attraction separately from platonic attraction.