#gray asexuals

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Ace shapes and escapes (My first attempt at a mood board)

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Guys...

I'm in the Many More!! 😃

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I've said on here /I'm/ not LGBT, but I /am/ LGBTQIA, because obviously, I'm the A.

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On being too queer and not queer enough: Finding space for my asexuality - The Black Youth Project

That world feels so far from this one. There I'm too queer. But here, I'm not queer enough.

Sherronda Brown's writings on being a black asexual woman.

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This is What Asexual Looks Like Part 4: Masc Edition — Qwear | Queer Fashion Platform

I’m Yasmin Benoit, a model, asexuality activist, and the creator of #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike. When I started #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike

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As a musician and a romantic, Listen to Your Heart sounds like prime material. As a demisexual, the awkwardness of people trying to kiss you within the first 3 hours of meeting you??? 🙅🏾‍♀️

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I want to start to do mood boards but not sure how. Are y'all just googling?

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I was writing a stream of consciousness post, and tumblr glitched when I tried to save it. *sob* I was working on pinpointing my orientation, which is strange to still be doing in my 30s, but knowledge is power.

Sexually, I consider myself demisexual-graysexual flux, where I'm typically graysexual, but on occasion, it shifts to demisexual. I believe that still applies. Now for the romantic portion? Here we go!

I've been asking myself for a few months now if I am biromantic. I came to the conclusion a couple of hours ago that when it comes to women, there is a high possibility that I'm greyromantic. I've only had one instance where I was aesthetically attracted to a female coworker and imagined what it would be like to kiss her. That was 8 or 9 years ago now. I don't recall that happening again since.

When it comes to men, I have strong aesthetic attraction, and usually because of that, romantic attraction sprouts. More often than not, the romantic attraction fades. There have only been a few instances where it didn't: the first was my first love in high school, in which I didn't experience sexual attraction; the second was my second love in college, where I wasn't aesthetically attracted to him, but we had a strong bond almost off the bat, so I became romantically attracted to him (whoa, is that demiromanticism happening??). I'll pause here because in both of these instances, they claimed to be okay with me saying I was saving myself for marriage, but both eventually said things that made it clear they wanted to have sex. I wasn't sexually attracted to either of them.

The third instance, though, was a strange online "relationship" I had a few years ago. I did experience sexual attraction with this guy, but it was because of our conversations, which were overtly romantic, so I missed no signals, and then the conversations turned sexual. I'm not ashamed to say there was sexting involved in that, and for all intents and purposes, I count him as my "first" (and only at this point) sexual encounter.

The only other sexual attraction I've experienced with a man happened years after I felt aesthetic and romantic attraction to a first-distant, now closer friend. I had a crush on him since after college, and it wasn't until a year or so ago I felt a strong surge of sexual attraction. I know the two of us wouldn't work out because he's attracted to someone close to me, but when that sexual attraction hit, I was SHOOK. I'm almost sure if there is a one out there for me to find, they will have all of the characteristics that I love about this guy and then match the rest of the missing pieces.

I am also aesthetically attracted to androgynous boys (see all those The Untamed posts from yesterday), so that means I may also be attracted to enbys who were born male. I haven't really tread that road much, as I don't know or haven't met any, and at 35, I'd be surprised if I do. But I do enjoy their look. I also love a "masculine" man with long hair, so ... anything can happen??

Alright, so where does that leave me? Definitely demisexual-graysexual flux still. Is there some term that differentiates grayromanticism towards women but alloromanticism towards men? Or am I still biromantic because I like men and possibly enbys who were born male? Any expert aros who can chime in?

I successfully rewrote the important parts on an empty stomach. That was smart. pfft