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He's...hesitant. I mean, he definitely knows you're flirting with him. And he tentatively flirts back. But he's unsure of why you're flirting with him.  :lol:  I do recall he gets a bit flustered by one of the early flirts though, which was adorable, especially because he's usually so damn unflappable.

 

Ha, yeah, I guess that would be an accurate description. :)

 

it would be your left and/or right hand

 

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Ha, yeah, I guess that would be an accurate description. :)

 

 

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oh for serious.... I would choose Josephine.  There isn't a sex scene and it's an okay story.



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it would be your left and/or right hand

 

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<_<

I can be distasteful.  I admit that


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I can be distasteful.  I admit that

 

I think most people can be. I know I totally can be. :P

 

You're not alone.


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What's that saying? " Zero to B&%@$ in 0.6 seconds." Yeah I can do that, just cross me and find out LOL



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He's...hesitant. I mean, he definitely knows you're flirting with him. And he tentatively flirts back. But he's unsure of why you're flirting with him.  :lol:  I do recall he gets a bit flustered by one of the early flirts though, which was adorable, especially because he's usually so damn unflappable.

 

Also, as when you ask him to tell you more about himself, he responds with "Why?" at first.



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Josephine's romance is totally adorable and sweet. Her quests are also fun and her romance mission is....like something out of a book/movie. 

 

I would also recommend Solas for story and because his romance is well done, but heed the other warnings here about that.



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I'm jealous of asexuals.

Not even kidding, or making fun..

Can somebody please use magic and make me asexual?
Cheers.

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I'm jealous of asexuals.

Not even kidding, or making fun..

Can somebody please use magic and make me asexual?
Cheers.

Well, thank you. We don't hear that often. I suspect if you were one though, you'd find it aggravating at times and, mostly just feel left out a lot when friends, or even partners go on about how attractive so and so is and, how they would like to bed them. Meanwhile my brain is saying "Meh, just a body, I've got one too, so what."


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Well, thank you. We don't hear that often. I suspect if you were one though, you'd find it aggravating at times and, mostly just feel left out a lot when friends, or even partners go on about how attractive so and so is and, how they would like to bed them. Meanwhile my brain is saying "Meh, just a body, I've got one too, so what."


And good on you.

Beats pining for some ****** LOL. Now THAT is aggravating.

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^ Asexual doesn't always mean aromantic, though. Asexuals can totally pine for people. Just not be distracted by the need to bone people.

Also, be expected to hear "you just haven't met the right man/woman yet!" every single time someone finds out you're ace. :c


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Honestly for an Asexual, either Josephine for males, or Solas for female Elves. Do not ask why, but I feel that Josie's romance was tailored for male human warriors/rogues.



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^ Asexual doesn't always mean aromantic, though. Asexuals can totally pine for people. Just not be distracted by the need to bone people.

Also, be expected to hear "you just haven't met the right man/woman yet!" every single time someone finds out you're ace. :c

 

Oh, god, the "you just haven't met the right person!" I can't count how many times I've heard that. Also, "how do you know if you've never tried it?"


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Do you tell your friends this if the issue doesn't come up?



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Do you tell your friends this if the issue doesn't come up?

 

I'm not sure I follow your question.



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Don't forget all the people who can barely spell "asexual" and have absolutely no professional medical training, but who will still try to psychoanalyze and diagnose all manner of imaginary physical and mental illnesses onto you as an "explanation" for why you are so "abnormal" and "defective". :rolleyes: Not unlike what gay and trans people still have to deal with, too.


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Well, you say you "can't count how many times' you've heard people say things about it. How do they know about it in the first place? Not liking sex is fine, but do you go around telling people "Hi, I'm ______ and I'm asexual"?

 

I don't see why you would feel the need to announce it to anyone but partners and very close friends, if that. What business of most people is it what you like and don't like in private?



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Don't forget all the people who can barely spell "asexual" and have absolutely no professional medical training, but who will still try to psychoanalyze and diagnose all manner of imaginary physical and mental illnesses onto you as an "explanation" for why you are so "abnormal" and "defective". :rolleyes: Not unlike what gay and trans people still have to deal with, too.

 

So true. How about that hormonal explanation they come up with? "Something must be wrong with your hormones." Usually this comes from people who know squat about hormones.



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Well, you say you "can't count how many times' you've heard people say things about it. How do they know about it in the first place? Not liking sex is fine, but do you go around telling people "Hi, I'm ______ and I'm asexual"?

 

I don't see why you would feel the need to announce it to anyone but partners and very close friends, if that. What business of most people is it what you like and don't like in private?

 

Actually, it's usually friends and family who inquire when they see something they think is weird, so I tell them. I don't go announcing it to people, and generally I avoid the topic with people in person.



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Then forgive me for asking, but what do they see and think is weird? Do you act any differently than someone else would?



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Then forgive me for asking, but what do they see and think is weird? Do you act any differently than someone else would?

 

Things like if they're talking about a "hot" person, celebrity, character, etc. and I'm just sitting in the corner quietly. I usually don't participate in those discussions. They find that strange.  Another example would be related to Dragon Age; I was playing DAO and one of my then friends asked why I declined the sexy times with Leliana, and then we got into a discussion about it.

It's usually just small things that catch people's interest, and if they're genuinely curious and don't just want to **** on my sexuality, I'm often happy to explain it to them.


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Well, you say you "can't count how many times' you've heard people say things about it. How do they know about it in the first place? Not liking sex is fine, but do you go around telling people "Hi, I'm ______ and I'm asexual"?

 

I don't see why you would feel the need to announce it to anyone but partners and very close friends, if that. What business of most people is it what you like and don't like in private?

 

You don't need to announce it, it comes up a lot. Being a part of it, you may not realise how much sex - jokes about it, claims of getting it, products selling with it, who's dating who - permeates our culture so completely.

I still enjoy the jokes when there's an actual joke there, and will even make them myself. But many can be summarised as "it's funny because I mentioned sex while making obscene gestures!", like an in-joke - unfunny, but people cite it constantly because it is something they all (theoretically) have in common.

The claims seem base and animalistic, a cruel parody of a society that values you based on how much grunting+ you do.

The ads are condescending and insulting, assuming we're all animals that will buy products simply because of how a person complete unrelated but depicted in the same 10-second bit looks, as though we all think with our (lady-)boners and can be easily manipulated through such.

 

You don't need to introduce yourself with it. When you're submerged in a culture obsessed with it, people notice you don't interact with it the same way they do.

 

So many people will value each other based on relationships - if you've never dated a man/woman, and are a woman/man, you must be gay (because sexuality is binary, apparently). That does tend to lead to some of the bullying and oppression that carries.

 

Then when it is clear you never date anyone, at all, it could never POSSIBLY be by choice. It can only be because you're a loser who's terrible at picking up gals/guys and you pretend you don't want them to feel better about it.

 

You don't need to announce jack-****. They 'confront' you about it.

 

 

EDIT: This post probably sounds really bitter and like I'm attacking you, but don't worry, that's not it. Writing it just brought up some unhappy memories and no post looks good written angry.

 

EDIT2: ...oh, and God help you if you're male. There is at least some understanding of chastity or 'purity' among women, shying away from sex in favour of an emotional connection. But for a man, sex is supposed to be his end goal. A disinterest in that's almost a social death sentence, and expect a lot of interactions with other men to suffer for it (you have no interest in a large amount of 'male bonding' dialogue/jokes/etc after all). Yep, you're DEFINITELY a loser who's terrible at picking up gals.


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EDIT2: ...oh, and God help you if you're male. There is at least some understanding of chastity or 'purity' among women, shying away from sex in favour of an emotional connection. But for a man, sex is supposed to be his end goal. A disinterest in that's almost a social death sentence, and expect a lot of interactions with other men to suffer for it (you have no interest in a large amount of 'male bonding' dialogue/jokes/etc after all). Yep, you're DEFINITELY a loser who's terrible at picking up gals.

 

And if you're an aromantic woman, you get the flip side of that. ("How can you not feel love??!!" Some people seem to forget that there are kinds of love other than the romantic one.)


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And if you're an aromantic woman, you get the flip side of that. ("How can you not feel love??!!" Some people seem to forget that there are kinds of love other than the romantic one.)

And try explaining being genderless to someone - oh boy. Not all asexuals are genderless but, there are a few like me, regardless of what my body looks like, I don't consider myself as even having a gender. I don't act male or female, I'm just a human, I cook, hunt, fish, sew, do needle work, read, repair my trucks, mow the lawn, soak in a bubble bath... normal week for me.

 

Living in the south, you'd be surprised how many people that sort of week totally confuses. Apparently I do things only men should do and things only women should do. *shrug* I'm me, isn't that enough? Do I have to be a man or a woman? Do I have to be interested in sex? Why? I'm happy as I am, let me me be me.


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