So they can be seduced, coerced, or otherwise shown "what they're missing" and thus giving an inaccurate and derogatory portrayal of asexuals.
Not that porn ever cared about being accurate or non-derogatory.
According to Wikepedia, some asexuals actually like sex. Or masturbation. They just don't get
attracted like normal people. They are physically capable of sex and orgasm, they just basically lack a libido. Some of them masturbate, but only to relieve tension. I think. It's not very clearly defined.
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I am kinda annoyed about the vocal number of asexuals on the internet. In real life, you never ever talk to these people. Online, they're everywhere. This leads me to believe that for at least some of these folks, this is just a constructed persona to get attention. I'm sure they do exist, but like, every kid that went to hischool nowadays claims to be asexual. IRL I've never met one. I feel like "it's the new thing" so "everybody's doing it". That's probably unfair, and I am annoyed when folks say similar things about bisexuals, but on Wikepedia, studies claim that only one in a hundred people is asexual. Studies have shown that as much as 46% of people have had sexual relations with both males and females. Of course, not all these folks identify as bisexual, only about 4% actually identify as bi, but there are clearly more bisexuals in real life then asexuals in real life. Online, not so much. Transexuals are supposedly less common then either asexuals or bisexuals both, but I have known plenty of them, like 8 at least. Still never met a self-identified axsexual in real life. I could chalk it up to the fact that an asexual person is probably not going to participate in something like queer youth groups, because an asexual is probably going to "pass" pretty easily, (as long as something else more visible isn't going on such as transgenderism,) and hense, they are probably less likely to be heckled by other kids and harshly sanctioned by parents, perhaps leading to disinterest in affiliating themselves with the larger queer community. Speaking of "in-vogue queerness", a similar thing happened in the late nineties to early two-thousands with female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs). For a while there, (I don't know if it's still going on,) you couldn't be a butch lesbian without talk of "transitioning" and enormous peer pressure to start on hormones, witch I thought was really sad. "Bisexual Chic" happened in the seventies, but I wasn't around for that. Similar stuff happens in porn where pretty much all women in the buseness are pressured into behaving bisexually, regardless of orientation. I'm all for exploring, but I think who you fuck should not be defined by what your freinds think.
I guess what really annoys me is that sexual identities are basically a social construct anyways, and it's annoying to me that such things can go in and out of style. Sexual expression and identity, IMO, should be a personal thing that is divorced from peer pressure, but it clearly isn't. This is why sometimes I pine for a society where none of this was so rigidly defined so people could work this stuff out for themselves, like, in my opinion, they should.
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