Welcome to Roses Are Repulsed 🌹
What is this blog?
Welcome to Roses-are-repulsed! This blogs main focus is to be a source of positivity for romance and sex repulsed people! Mostly there is a focus on the aro and ace community but repulsed allos are also welcome here!
And while not specifically targeted at other split attraction repulsed identities, you all are welcome here as well :) So if your plato-repulsed or just any or all attraction repulsed then you too are welcome here.
Who runs it?
This blog is run by @redysetdare! You can call me Red or Dare and I use he/they pronouns! I'm a loveless aroace who is romance repulsed/averse and sex repulsed. (Also a-attractional in general? I don't feel any attraction on the SAM at all. Recently also found that I may just be attraction/relationship repulsed/averse in general)
I've been doing my best to make posts about my repulsed experience and trying to push for more support and positivity surrounding repulsed experiences! if you are repulsed, averse, or maybe just tired of romance/sex/whatever in general then feel free to share you experience or just hang out here :)
Glossary of Terms
Sex repulsed: someone who is uncomfortable or disgusted by the idea of sex in reference to themselves and to others. each persons comfort level is different and decided by the individual.
Romance repulsed: Someone who is uncomfortable or disgusted by the idea of romance in reference to themselves and others. each persons comfort level is different and decided by the individual.
Sex Averse: someone who is uncomfortable by the idea of sex in reference to themselves but may be okay with it in reference to others. their comfort with the topic may range greatly and may need certain standards to be met for them to be okay with the discussion.
Romance Averse: someone who is uncomfortable by the idea of romance in reference to themselves but may be okay with it in reference to others. their comfort with the topic may range greatly and may need certain standards to be met for them to be okay with the discussion.
Rose: Shortened version of "Romance and Sex" with Ro = Romance and Se=Sex. It can be used as an easy shorthand when talking about identities relating to both romance and sex, such as Rose prepulsed, Allorose, Arose, etc.
Allo: apposite of the a-prefix. Allosexual is someone who experiences sexual attraction; alloromantic is someone who experiences romantic attraction; and alloplatonic is someone who experiences platonic attraction.
Sex negative: a political stance where one believes that the act of sex is immoral in some way. Usually pushed by puritan Christians who believe that sex is only meant to be between a man or a woman, that it should only be done to have children and not for pleasure, and that it is a duty of serving god. it is important to make a distinction between the political belief of sex negativity and being sex repulsed.
Tagging
Sex Repulsed - Sex averse : any posts relating to sex repulsion/aversion will be tagged as both sex repulsed AND sex averse.
Romance Repulsed - Romance averse : any posts relating to romance repulsion/aversion will be tagged as both romance repulsed AND romance averse.
Rose Repulsed - Rose Averse : posts relating to Romance AND Sex repulsion/aversion will be tagged as rose repulsed AND rose averse.
[id] Repulsed - [id] Averse : posts relating to other forms of repulsion/aversion will be tagged with the identity followed by repulsed and averse. Ex: plato repulsed and plato averse for platonic repulsed and averse respectively.
Aromantic - Aro : any post related to aromanticism will be tagged as Aro and aromantic.
Asexual - Ace : any post related to asexuality will be tagged as Asexual and Ace.
AroAce : posts relating to aroace identities will be tagged as AroAce.
Allosexual - Alloromantic - Allorose : Posts relating to allosexuality, alloromantic or allorose will be tagged as each one according to the post. (so a post about aroallos would likely be tagged as aromantic and allosexual)
Asks : Answered asks from the ask box.
Submission : post submitted by another user to the blog.
Positivity : positivity posts in general will be tagged with this.
Vent : for posts/asks that may be venting.
Goof Post : just a silly post. usually a joke or a meme.
Romance mention : if a post mentions romance in a way that could trigger repulsion this tag will be added to it. Feel free to request its addition to posts.
Sex mention : if a post mentions sex in a way that could trigger repulsion this tag will be added to it. feel free to request its addition to posts.
Guidelines for sending asks and submissions
Submissions: submissions is where you can submit positivity posts for the blog.
Submissions should be used to creating positivity posts that you would like posted onto the account.
Submissions must follow the blogs theme of repulsed positivity. this can be any kind of repulsion and doesn't need to be only rose repulsion.
this is not the place to send vent posts. vents should be sent through the ask box.
no links will be allowed as to avoid scams and bots.
Asks: a place to ask questions, make requests, express yourself, or lightly vent.
The ask box will accept vents. just make sure to put proper warnings if certain things get heavy. also note I'm not a therapist and can't give mental health advice but I will gladly grant you a platform to let your feelings be heard and build community.
Hate mail and negativity will be blocked and not posted under any circumstances.
do not spam the inbox if your question goes unanswered. We either didn't answer it for a reason or just haven't gotten to it yet.
Sex/Romance Repulsed Discord server!
Looking for community? Feel free to ask to be invited to the Repulsed discord server!
