User:Vewo22/Sexual Dispositions
Sexual Dispositions
[edit]Sexual Dispositions is a term mostly used within the asexual community on how asexual people feel about participating in sexual activity.[1] People who identify as someone on the asexual spectrum have a Sexual and a Romantic orientation.[2][3] Sexual dispositions are terms to further describe sexual orientation for people on the asexual spectrum.[4] The Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) has forums on their website for anyone to post questions or discuss anything about asexuality.[5][6] In these forums, people use these dispositions to describe how much they are wanting to part take in sexual activities.[7] There are many labels, romantic and sexual, used on AVEN forums and Tumblr posts, both of which have large asexual communities.[8] There are popular terms like sex-repulsed, sex-indifferent, sex-favorable, or sex-ambivalent to label their level of desire to be involved in sex or sexual activity.[9]
- Sex-repulsed: a person finds sex revolting.[10]
- Sex-indifferent: a person has no specific opinions towards sex.[11]
- Sex-favorable: a person enjoy the concept of sex.[12]
- Sex-ambivalent: their feelings about sexual activity are mixed.[13]
Definitions:
[edit]Sex-repulsed
[edit]Sex-repulsed means that a person views sexual activity as disgusting.[10] A person can identify as a gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, etc. and be sex-repulsed. An example could be a sex-repulsed asexual gay male that is romantically attracted to males but is sexually repulsed by them.[14] It is often mistaken that all asexual people are sex-repulsed or have never had sex. A person could have had sex and then realized from that experience that they are sex-repulsed.[15] An asexual person could have never experienced sex and still be sex-repulsed.[15]
Sex-indifferent and sex-ambivalent
[edit]Sex-indifferent, sometimes referred to as sex-neutral, is used for people who do not have a strong feeling about sex.[11] They do not have any strong negative or positive feelings about sexual activity. Some may not want to engage in sexual activity themselves because they are unsure about their feelings for it. Some asexuals have tried to engage in sexual activity, but did not feel anything or do not know how to describe what they are feeling.[16] Some may feel that they are having sex because sex normativity is telling them to. But, some may be willing to have sex with other people like a partner for pleasure or for reproductive reasons.[17]
Sex-ambivalent individuals have mixed emotions about sexual activity.[13] There are many reasons why someone may identify as sex-ambivalent.[18] An example may be that their level of desire to engage in sexual activity changes a lot.[19] A sex-ambivalent person may be sex-repulsed some days and then be sex favorable the other days.[13] They can even go through these fluctuations of desire in a single day. Instead of constantly changing their label to what they feel that day or time, they use sex-ambivalent as their label. A common reason is their sexual desire changes based on the situation. For example, a person can be sex-indifferent normally, but when they are in a relationship with a partner, they are sex-favorable. A sexual orientation that is similar to this is demisexual. Sexual desire may change based on specific sexual activities. They might be sex-repulsed to certain sexual activities while sex-favorable to specific kinks.[15]
Sex-favorable
[edit]Sex-favorable is the term used for those that enjoy sexual activity.[12] Asexual people lack sexual attraction, but some like the physical pleasure from sex. Sex-favorable people can be okay with engaging in sex if they are the one's being pleasured, but not be giving pleasure back. It could also be vice versa. Sex-favorable could mean that someone may like sexual pleasure, but not be sexually attracted to people. So, they are fine with masturbation or sex with objects. Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction, but that does not mean that they do not engage in sex or cannot possess sexual desire at all.[9][20]
The term sex positive is often confused with sex-favorable, but they are different.[12] Sex positive is a political stance on sex, while sex-favorable is a person who enjoys sex.[21] Sex positive people believe that safe and consensual sex is healthy and they support all types of sexuality.[22] They believe that sexual activity is a choice. Whether someone answers "yes" or "no" to having sex is up to the person who is making the decision.[23] A person who is a sex-repulsed asexual can still be sex positive.[24] That means that they are repulsed if they engage in sexual activity themselves, but are in support of other people having healthy sex, proper sexual education, or contraception.[10] Sex negative or Antisexualism, the opposite of sex positive, are ideologies against sexual positivity and are more conservative.
ARCsexual
[edit]ARCsexual is a another term used for both asexuals and allosexuals (people who are not asexual) to label their level of desire for sexual activity.[25][26] The ARC in ARCsexual stands for Averse, Repulsed and Conflicted.[25][27] The ARCsexual and asexual communities have created this term using online platforms like Tumblr or the AVEN forums so that people who are not on the asexual spectrum can label their sexual attraction.[27] Just like how cisgender is used to label people who are not transgender, ARCsexual is used to label sexual attraction for those who are not asexual.[26] These terms were created and used by the LGBTQ+ community to make the community more inclusive to multiple narratives.[28] Some examples of labels in the ARCsexual community:
- Anticarnal: sex-repulsed or find sex revolting.[10][25]
- Acarnal: sex-indifferent or have no feelings towards sexual activity.[11][25]
- Procarnal: sex-favorable or enjoy sexual activity.[12][25]
- Eriscarnal: sex-ambivalent or their feelings about sexual activity are mixed.[13][25]
- Discarnal: does not want to engage in sexual activity personally, but does not mind talking or hearing about sexual activity as long as they are not included in it[25]
References
[edit]- ^ Bogaert, Anthony F. (2015-02-27). Understanding Asexuality. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-0100-2.
- ^ Mosbergen, Dominique (2013-06-19). "INFOGRAPHIC: The Asexual Spectrum". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Overview | The Asexual Visibility and Education Network | asexuality.org". www.asexuality.org. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Sexual orientation". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Community Link Forum". Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Community - AVENwiki". wiki.asexuality.org. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Types of aces/aros". Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Sexuality and Translation in World Politics". E-International Relations. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b "Asexual". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b c d "Sex-repulsed". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b c "Sex-indifferent". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b c d "Sex-favorable". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b c d "Sex-ambivalent". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Hi, I'm a Sex-Repulsed Asexual. No, not all Ace people are Sex-Repulsed". AZE. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b c Siggy (2016-06-13). "20 narratives of aces who like sex". The Asexual Agenda. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Prause, Nicole; Graham, Cynthia (2007-09-27). "Asexuality: Classification and Characterization" (PDF). Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Asexuality and Having Children". My Kid is Gay. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Showing results for 'ambivalent'". Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Young, Attractive, and Totally Not Into Having Sex". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ asexualityarchive (2012-02-11). "Asexuality: Myths, Misconceptions and Other Things That Are Just Plain Wrong". Asexuality Archive. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Sex-positive". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "What does "sex positive" mean?". ISSM. 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Sex Positivity". feministcampus.org. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Sex-positive - AVENwiki". wiki.asexuality.org. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g "ARCsexual". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b "Allosexual". LGBTA Wiki. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ a b "r/ARCsexual - Welcome to r/ARCsexual!!". reddit. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Sadi, Kisten (2014-12-14). "ARCsexual: Averse, Repulsed, Conflicted". Kisten Sadi. Retrieved 2020-12-19.