A Bit of Attraction




Play Scrabble.

(No, really.)










Um. No.


  • Heteroromantic: Romantically attracted to the opposite sex/gender.
  • Homoromantic: Romantically attracted to the same sex/gender.
  • Aromantic: Romantically attracted to no one.







Are asexuals only romantically attracted to other asexuals?


And how does that work out?









5 thoughts on “A Bit of Attraction



  1. I’m 16, and I only recently put together the puzzle pieces and am trying to accept myself as an ace.
    As to attraction, I’ve always been aware that I do experience aesthetic attraction. I like calling myself an artist, and I live off of studying angles, perspectives, proportions, colours, shapes, and such. I felt uncomfortable, though, with my friends shrugging their eyebrows at me whenever I was caught observing (which apparently came off as leering at) other people.
    I know that I’ve experienced some variation of an attraction towards my friends though. She was actually the one who advised me to go do some research on sexualities and romantic orientations and such, and I thought at first I thought was sapiosexual because intelligence definitely piques my interest in people; but then I realised that I don’t experience much sexual fantasies. I don’t want sex. All I wanted was cuddles and warmth and chatters and doing weird things together, which was weird because – isn’t that what friends do in general? Why did I feel like this one was special? Why do I give absolute trust to this one? How does platonic affection work? My friends and I go to an international school, which means that people come and go regularly, each year. I personally haven’t been able to hold onto a friendship for anything more than 2 years until this particular friend of mine; we’ve been friends for five. Could this just be the reason why I’m applying special values to her, or is this an actual – what do people call it – love? If so, what should I do? How do I stop feeling this way?
    I’m sorry for bombarding you with questions that are kinda off topic..

    • You don’t have to stop loving someone. If anything sometimes it’s easier because you can have a strong bond with out worrying about sex messing it up. Forge ahead a strong lifelong friendship. :)

      • Um also it just occurred to me that I’m rather low on romantic attraction so I might be not understanding the type of distress you are feeling. :S

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