Asexuals unite!

[TheHatedOne]

Thank God you didn't notice this, OP! Talk about an embarrassing Freudian slip...

wow, and when I thought I did the most idiotic typos :DDDD

 

[Bedrock48]

Demiromantic asexual here, glad I'm not the only one around here. I've known I was 'different' to my peers since around age 10 or 11 when I couldn't understand why people were wanting boyfriends and girlfriends. I remember I used to stare at my body in the mirror, I thought if I looked at it long enough I'd understand why people were attracted to others like that. Not cause I hated my body or anything I was just so confused.

I've since come to love and accept my sexuality after discovering what it was around 14 but its still difficult sometimes living in a society so focused on sex and relationships.

 

[Thaneem]

I'm not asexual exactly, but I am a schizoid with a very low sex drive. When I lost my virginity, the entire time I was thinking, "this is it? I'd rather read a book" lol.
Sex has never played a huge role in my life, but weirdly, I've gotten into addictions with prostitutes and porn. Isnt that strange? Maybe it's that I've never linked sex to emotion. No idea why.

 

[JinZhin]

I was very disinterested in sex and repulsed by it, still am to this day, unironically I never even tried to masturbate in my life and didn't think it's weird until I was almost 19 when I realized most people actually do it all the time. Like it didn't even cross my mind.
I am not sure if I can call myself asexual because what if I am only depressed and have no will to live or what if I was only traumatized xzy in a medical book I saw when I was 8 or what if I only realzed everything is meaningless and I'd rather spend my time some other way and so many things like that
But considering it has been going on for quite a while... I guess I may be, besides I'm fine with dying a virgin and being single forever.

 

[Manaaja]

I'm asexual with 3D but not 2D if you know what I mean (I like reading steamy mangas and fanfics for example). I'm not aromantic however, I'd like to have a romantic hand-holding walk and eat dinner in a romantic restaurant.

I saw a person on reddit have a really cool asexual ring, I wish I could buy one.

 

[ReallyTired]

I became completely 'asexual' about 10 years ago when I started taking ssri's and then snri's. I kind of accepted it as a side effect. When I stopped taking the meds, I thought my sexuality would go back to 'normal', and I would be attracted to men again. But it has never been the same again. After some research I discovered that maybe I have PSSD. Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. It starts after quitting antidepressants and in some cases it remains for many years on, depending on genetic vulnerability.
But, atm, I really couldn't be bothered anymore.

What is post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) and how to know that you have it

Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a protracted syndrome that begins after quitting antidepressants and remains for months or even years on end. Symptoms are numerous and can be life-disabling. Antidepressants can trigger PSSD from just a few pills in the unlucky few, depending on genetic...

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[Manaaja]

I became completely 'asexual' about 10 years ago when I started taking ssri's and then snri's. I kind of accepted it as a side effect. When I stopped taking the meds, I thought my sexuality would go back to 'normal', and I would be attracted to men again. But it has never been the same again. After some research I discovered that maybe I have PSSD. Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. It starts after quitting antidepressants and in some cases it remains for many years on, depending on genetic vulnerability.
But, atm, I really couldn't be bothered anymore.

What is post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) and how to know that you have it

Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a protracted syndrome that begins after quitting antidepressants and remains for months or even years on end. Symptoms are numerous and can be life-disabling. Antidepressants can trigger PSSD from just a few pills in the unlucky few, depending on genetic...

www.theresearchzone.com

I'm sorry you had to endure it. I've heard many people get poisoned by those money schemes. There's an antipsychiatry subreddit if you want to find more posts like yours.

I think that maybe practicing it it can come back again? The same way that I hated sushi and thought that I'd never like it, but I just kept eating until I started to love it. Or the same way running was really hard for me, but after I just did it day after day for weeks it finally worked and now I love running.

Speaking of snake liquid affecting sexuality. I once took some poison brain wash liquid given by shitriartists that made me very attracted to my friend. I wanted to tell my friend to leave her husband and marry me. After I stopped taking those meds, my brain cleared, and I was horrified that I had ever found my friend attractive.

 

[DerTod]

I wish i would talk to some asexuals in here who struggle with depression. Seems all the threads regarding asexuality are old and a lot of the members not active. I've always been demisexual however in time due to hypersexualisation and men disappointing me i got more and more towards being asexual. Haven't dated anyone in 10 years.I had some libido....quite decent i would say as i used to masturbate quite often...after Sertraline it went out almost completely and lost sensitivity too. 4 years passed and i still haven't got my libido back.

 

[Starz]

I'm asexual and had many failed relationships because of this. I do try and have sex when in a relationship to please my partner but I never enjoy it and it's pretty obvious I don't enjoy it

 

[houseofleaves]

I wish i would talk to some asexuals in here who struggle with depression. Seems all the threads regarding asexuality are old and a lot of the members not active. I've always been demisexual however in time due to hypersexualisation and men disappointing me i got more and more towards being asexual. Haven't dated anyone in 10 years.I had some libido....quite decent i would say as i used to masturbate quite often...after Sertraline it went out almost completely and lost sensitivity too. 4 years passed and i still haven't got my libido back.

You stopped taking Sertraline, right?

 

[DerTod]

You stopped taking Sertraline, right?

I took it 4 years ago for 6 months.The libido was cut from the first pill but i thought that it's just a temporary problem. It wasn't. My brother experienced the same problem. I don't know if his libido is now back because we don't talk anymore.