Sex Recession
Let's Know Things
Colin Wright
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week we talk about asexuality, penile measurements, and the mesolimbic pathway.
We also discuss dating apps, pornography, and biological reward systems.
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| 0:00.0 | The word asexuality refers to the lack of sexual attraction toward other people, or in some cases a very low or entirely absent desire for sex or sex-related things. |
| 0:27.6 | Gray asexuality is a term that refers to the space between sexuality and asexuality. |
| 0:35.6 | So the area between the desire for sex and no desire for sex, that's the spectrum that we're talking about here. |
| 0:42.3 | And someone who identifies as being somewhere on the more asexual than sexual end of this spectrum |
| 0:48.3 | falls under what's sometimes called the ace umbrella, |
| 0:51.3 | ace being a slang term for someone who is asexual, and that umbrella |
| 0:55.6 | encompassing a variety of variations on the theme of asexuality. For instance, the term |
| 1:02.3 | demisexual often refers to someone who doesn't necessarily, but might lack a libido, |
| 1:08.3 | a sex drive, but who can experience sexual attraction to someone after |
| 1:12.1 | some other connection, like a strong emotional bond, has formed. The term semi-sexual is often |
| 1:18.7 | adopted by folks who have a sex drive and who feel sexual attraction, but either experience it |
| 1:23.8 | irregularly, maybe only for one person ever, or maybe for a year at a time, before |
| 1:30.2 | having a couple of years without much of one, or because they feel the drive to have sex |
| 1:35.1 | but have no real desire to act upon that drive, at least with another person. |
| 1:40.0 | And both sexual-ish and asexual-ish refer to people who are perhaps further to one end of the |
| 1:47.1 | spectrum than the other, but still don't completely fit within a black and white category. |
| 1:51.5 | They're mostly asexual, except for some aspect of asexuality where they deviate, or the same, |
| 1:57.5 | but leaning more toward the typically sexual. An important component to understand about the world of asexuality is that generally |
| 2:05.6 | sexual orientation and interest are separated from romantic orientation and interest. |
| 2:12.6 | So you could be uninterested in having sex with someone else, but be very interested in them romantically. |
| 2:18.3 | And that means you could be hetero-romantic or homo-romantic in the sex that you want to be intimate with someone from the opposite or same gender. |
| 2:27.3 | You could also be bi-romantic into a bit of both, potentially, at least. |
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