Posted March 04, 2009

And excuse me but I found your last little comment there hilarious. You try to make a point to counter mine, but really you can't think that is what I (or anyone) would drive at? Obviously you don't want to bang your relatives or family members, but who you grow up around and grow up with influences what you look for in a partner (it's filed under one of those 'well no shit' theories)
You can't sit there and tell me that love you feel for your partner and how you love your family are one in the same, because they aren't. Since we were on the subject of relationships I meant that kind of love.
I really shouldn't have to spell out such obvious things. If you're smart enough to play devil's advocate, you're smart enough to deduce this all on your own.

You said psychological bullshit, I paraphrased as psychological disorder. If that's not what you meant then I'm sorry but it wasn't exactly a massive leap.
Obviously the love *you* feel for partners you may have is different from the love you feel for a family member. The point I was making is that not all love is based around sexual desire, as you claimed it was. So it's no stretch of the imagination to see how someone who lacks sexual desire could feel love for a partner, without any sexual feelings.
Plus, yes mammals have needs to breed, but that doesn't mean that it always works out that way. Like I said - given your sexuality, breeding is pretty much out of the question, yet there it is. It's not difficult to see that some people would simply - for whatever reason, hormonal imbalance maybe - have no sexual desire. You're right, it's not an orientation per se, it's a lack of one.
The thing that makes it a bit messy is that I expect there *are* people out there who say they're asexual for the very reasons you mentioned, but there are those that say that's not the case. Who are we to say that they're just kidding themselves.