(August 10, 2016 at 1:06 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(August 10, 2016 at 12:51 pm)Irrational Wrote: One thing about this particular discussion is that asexuality is not always defined as lack of sexual drive, but rather lack of sexual attraction towards others.
True, but again celibacy or repressing your attraction to others is different from not having any.
I don't know what you mean by not having any. Like benny just said, you can make yourself not "have any". That's not repression and it's not "celibacy". Those are different things altogether. Repression is an act of trying to ignore your sexual feelings, whereas we're talking about taking them out of the picture completely, not even feeling their absence. And celibacy describes the usual aftereffect of that, depending on how long you keep it up, but not it. If I were to guess, you know this, but you still insist on pretending you don't for whatever reason.
