Asexuality: The Making of a Movement-Pride March

Excerpts from the upcoming Big Mouth Film, Asexuality: The Making of a Movement.

For more information about the film, contact Angela Tucker at angela@artsengine.net

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[antiquelens]

Well, asexuals experience physical arousal, some at least, so it's not like a physical issue like a arousal issue (not being able to get an erection etc) Just the fact that you have that physical arousal but have no want/need to take it into intercourse. I think the community is important, because they don't feel it's anything to be unhappy about, they don't want someone to attempt to fix them.

[antiquelens]

I guess it can be confusing for people to understand, esp. if you are a very sexual person, you know? To me it just is so easy to grasp. But i guess i have to realize it's not like that for everyone. I mean, there are so many definitions too, that confuses it all up more so.

[86thislove]

@hitomioneechan Sounds like you're a aromantic asexual. Also I'm the same way, I'm not at all a people person, I prefer to be alone

[cherokeediamond]

@hitomioneechan that just means you have antisocial personality disorder. and thats ok. you can be perfectly happy on your own. (:

[DawnedDusk]

This is great! I wish I was there.

I think that I'd go wearing a purple shirt saying, "We are the 1%ers!" ...Or something cleverer.

Asexual awareness is mucho importantes! It seems so difficult for people to grasp.

[GothicHorrorFiction]

Sexuality disgusts me. I must admit that I especially dislike displays of sexuality. It seems a bit primitive for the Human Race. Modern technology has eliminated the need for sex altogether, and in fact modern methods are safer, eliminating the risk of STDs. There is so much more that humanity can accomplish if we just eliminate our selfish desires.

[wigwamman1]

Why does everyone feel the need to put their private sex lives on public display? Sex...even monkeys do it. Who cares what you do with your private parts and with whom? Just don't hurt anyone.

[Boolglunk]

@fuzzyone99 lol I'm glad you explained all that, otherwise I would've flipped at the 3 year old comment.

I'm 20 now, so I'm pretty sure I'm not "too old" for it to decline. And I'm not a late bloomer where things just started changing at 16. Puberty started for me at the average age of 11.

Plenty of things decline with age. I don't think that means they are all related though.

[fuzzyone99]

@Boolglunk "My libido has practically become nonexistant & I can still get VERY emotional. Explain that."

Um, you're three years old?

Lol. No, seriously. It's late and I'm tired and I just read that and had to respond but without knowing more about you or taking the time to consider your comment in further detail, it wouldn't be right for me to respond.

Most people's libidos decline with age. So do most people's creative abilities. Maybe the two aren't linked, maybe they are.

[Boolglunk]

@fuzzyone99 How does libido affect creativity & emotion? It's just a sex drive. Yes, there's no doubt it can be powerful & with good reason for it, but how does it affect so many unrelated aspects of the human condition? That sounds very Freudian. You do realize a lot of what Freud said about that is hardly taken seriously nowadays, right? My libido has practically become nonexistant & I can still get VERY emotional. Explain that.

[fuzzyone99]

@imalive100 That's fine.

But I just think that to be that limited in one's physical expression of romantic passion is a limitation of the human experience. For Darwinian reasons, sex is a very enjoyable thing. The libido is a powerful force for creativity and serves as the well of every human emotion and its connection to the physical body. To disconnect this necessary mechanism for continuing the species from our exultation in it, must be a very artificial thing.

[imalive100]

@fuzzyone99 Asexuals aren't puritans. They just don't enjoy sex or desire it at all which is why they don't want or have it. Nothing is stopping them from having sex no religion or morals they just on their own don't desire it. And are you referring to puritans as people who say people should wait until marriage before having sex? How is that passionless? or a fear of sex?It's sharing their pleasure and having a true connection with one person they truly love forever. Instead of using people.