Poll: Would you date an asexual person?

[Tibs]

No. Compromising too much or on too big of a issue during a long term relationship will just not work.

 

[thylasos]

Sorry, I'm a sexual being, and someone with no desire to pursue that area of a relationship just wouldn't work with me in a romantic relationship.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Nope. Pure heterosexual here and I do inevitably want children.

 

[godfist88]

i guess it depends on their personality, they they're funny, smart, and all around a good person then yeah i'd date them.

 

[Caligulove]

No. Sex really is a big part of a good relationship to me.

I don't mean that sex needs to be there first and foremost on a first date, but I really think sex is needed for a meaningful emotional attachment with your significant other- no apologies. No reason I can't get along with an asexual person, but they would just be one of the majority of people in my life that I never have and never will have sex with

 

[darkorion69]

I am tired of the new gender terms...there is just no end to the political correctness there, but anyway...

I date people I am serious about getting to know deeply, and I am an adult. Adults have sex as a part of a mature relationship to share intimacy (some wait for marriage even.) Why would I want to date someone who has and never will have any interest in sharing sexual intimacy with me? Shouldn't they look for another asexual person and just let me be there friend?

 

[tthor]

Um, wouldn't dating an asexual person be basically friendship? The only real difference between freindship and dating is if the relationship has a level of intimacy, but with an asexual person, there wouldn't be any intimacy (atleast not from the asexual person)

 

[Mordwyl]

If they feel no physical attraction towards me whatsoever... Why?

 

[hopeneverdies]

Yes, yes I would. A heteroromantic asexual person, but an asexual person nonetheless. I don't date women to have sex with them. I date them to create a relationship between the two of us. That's all.

 

[Verlander]

YOUR OPINION IS WRONG, GO AWAY!
Joking of course, I value your opinion because you are well-spoken about it. Though I do not necessarily share it. That's not the point though, the point was to make fun, lol.

Consider me ridiculed

 

[Drake_Dercon]

To me sex is the only reason for a relationship, I can get meaningful conversations and close friendships from y'know my close friends, just need sex when you get bored of giving yourself the low five every once in a while.

Or, that statement could be reversed. Theoretically, you could have sexual relations with anyone you were attracted to (could, as in physically possible), whereas you could only have an actual romantic relationship with someone you felt emotionally drawn to. If you feel no different towards your romantic partners than to your friends, you might want to consider thinking about your relationships. Of course if you only care about having BFWB (that'd be best friends with benefits) relationships, or even just the last bit, that's your business.

Personally, I'd be fine with a nonsexual relationship. As long as it's the right person, I don't see why not. Sex is great, but basing a relationship on it seems a bad idea to me (don't know 'cause I've never tried), unless of course nobody expects anything from it. Bottom line being that I could have a relationship without sex, I don't really see why people have such an aversion (sometimes I wish I were asexual myself, though then I realize I don't).

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I don't see why not, but it depends on the person. I don't get along that well with many people. Mostly they don't really like my sarcasm or atheism...

 

[zehydra]

No. I do want sex at some point, and if the pleasure can't be mutual, I don't want in.

 

[hopeneverdies]

The blood in my boner would be straight from the heart!

*facepalms while cracking up laughing

 

[Cockney Weasel]

I wouldn't. Terribly sorry to come out with something so simplisitc and blunt in what might, for other people, be a rather complex series of decisions but to me sex and romantic attraction are almost entirely indivisible. You can love someone and have an affectionate relationship that is close, perhaps even closer in some ways than the one you share with the person/people you happen to be having sex with. But whilst I accept that you can have sex without romance I can't think (at least while I'm typing this) of circumstances when you might have romance without sex.