#religious ace

[ace-culture-is]

Religious Ace culture is being scared that your family and friends will disown you if they find out you’re LGBT+, even though you don’t experience attraction to the opposite gender. Literally that’s the entire point of the label Asexual, like…

[ace-culture-is]

religious non-western ace culture is being surrounded by people that never bring up sex ever and wondering if sexual attraction is a western concept except for those few times in high school where someone does bring it briefly and youre left reeling bc oh damn you guys really do feel that way ok wow

[just-graysexual]

Hey! You have a great list of LGBTQ Christian resources. Could you add Eve Tushnet's "Gay and Catholic" on there? She's a celibate lesbian Catholic, and while she supports celibacy, I find that her book is great at reframing matters for LGB, ally, and general Christian audiences alike :)

Hey Anon,

Sounds good! I will add that one for you. 

Thank you for the suggestion, Anon! It’s always nice to have other resources.

[demigray]

I've been thinking for about a year now that I'm somewhere on the ace spectrum, but I'm not sure where. Even the thought of sex usually makes me queasy. However, I'm also catholic, so even if I wanted, I wouldn't have sex before marriage. (Cont...)

(Cont...) Plus I've never been in a relationship, though every time I've liked someone, I've yearned for an attachment, but not sex. I can't tell if it's discomfort with my own body, or with sex, or my religion though. Any thoughts?

From my own intuition and speaking with religious aces, the theory I've formed is that religious non-asexual people have sexual feelings and choose not to follow up with sexual behavior, while religious aces don't have sexual feelings to begin with. 

As for discomfort with your body, I think it's kind of the same: non-aces with poor self-image might have sexual feelings first, and then face an obstacle in following up because they are uncomfortable with their bodies. An ace, on the other hand, wouldn't have sexual feelings to deal with in the first place.

I have a post regarding body image you can check out if you like.