Well, that depends. Does the guy really want a romantic, sexual relationship with someone else? If he does, then it's an obstacle. If he doesn't, then it's not.
The problem with that line of thinking, though, is that if people don't know that asexuality exists/is something that's possible as an identity, they very likely could attribute their unhappiness to failing a sexual/romantic relationships (as I did for years), instead of being unhappy because the relationships you do have are not honored in our culture the way sexual relationships are.
I mean: it's great the DSM5 now has a caveat that low sex drive is to no longer be considered a medical disorder, if a person self-identifies as "asexual."
But people who've never heard of the word "asexual" aren't going to call themselves that... And they'll still be subject to having their orientation medicalized.
Oh, and just tonight, someone posted a link to this article from Teen Vogue, which talks about this precise issue: What being asexual means to me (I swear, last year and this year especially, Teen Vogue has become a portal for Terramange leakage).
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2017-10-29 01:24 am (UTC)The problem with that line of thinking, though, is that if people don't know that asexuality exists/is something that's possible as an identity, they very likely could attribute their unhappiness to failing a sexual/romantic relationships (as I did for years), instead of being unhappy because the relationships you do have are not honored in our culture the way sexual relationships are.
I mean: it's great the DSM5 now has a caveat that low sex drive is to no longer be considered a medical disorder, if a person self-identifies as "asexual."
But people who've never heard of the word "asexual" aren't going to call themselves that... And they'll still be subject to having their orientation medicalized.
Oh, and just tonight, someone posted a link to this article from Teen Vogue, which talks about this precise issue: What being asexual means to me (I swear, last year and this year especially, Teen Vogue has become a portal for Terramange leakage).