The ‘R’ Word Part II - Tackling Romance and How It Fits In with Asexuality
Part II of my essay on Romance:
“We all have the opportunity to dictate how we go about everything in the world, including how we experience each other as sexual beings, but like every other aspect of our lives, society and culture work overtime to program us to experience each other in a specific way. The illusions of what are ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ are created and can become so engrained in us that we can’t separate ourselves from their false definitions and they become a part of our evolution. With sexual people this is not always an immediate problem; or rather it is more carefully masked and groomed, to the point where it seems completely appropriate and expected. People who experience sexual attraction receive signals form everywhere around them telling them exactly how to act on those feelings and with whom. Regardless of the sexuality of the person, those who experience sexual attraction have two things in common; the ability to experience attraction on a sexual level, and a blueprint that tells them exactly how to play that attraction out.”
