I envy people who understand attraction to the point where they don’t even have to think about it.
A Clockwork Orange
Yet, to me, the attraction is not just about the mind, the heart, or the soul…
Her Crush
And sex is not necessary, even if sexual fantasies are a part of her life.
I love you like a candle flickering on December 1st
I want to pour you thirteen cups of tea, / strawberry and cranberry, twirling, swirling, / like your eyebrows lifted when I said I didn’t want to have sex.
Mental Health and Brain-Scrambling Animal Magnetism
When we desire an emotional bond with someone we admire, it can be hard to accept that they don’t feel the same. But desire isn’t a license to guilt or push someone.
Thinking Attraction
I think my life would be better without the concept of ‘attraction’ constantly invading my thoughts. I overthink it, I see it everywhere. I can’t escape from it.
What Are The Steps?
All are secret dances / I do not know the steps to. / Some I regret not knowing / more than others.
Gravitational Pull
It’s not sexual and goes beyond aesthetics but is nevertheless physical.
Vol. 2, Issue 4: Thinking Attraction
The Asexual questions what is attraction as authors discuss its meaning and demonstrate its elasticity through their expressions.
The Exclusive Nature of an “Inclusive” Community
These larger problems are on their way to being healed, but the amount of work that still needs to be done is astronomical.
Finding the Language to Feel “Normal”
After finding this language to finally describe how I felt, I immediately started looking online for more people like me.
A "Normal" Asexual
We live in a world now where any type of physical contact between two adults is seen as sexual.
Pronouns are for Other People
But I just don’t feel non-binary or fluid. I feel like nothing.
Little Revelations
The way I’ve begun to see it, I was always who I am, even if I wasn’t aware of it.
An Impostor: and other abstract thoughts
Sometimes, I feel like an impostor. A poser.
Welcome Drought
They call xym on the phone sometimes. / By mutual unspoken agreement, no / one speaks of the dam, though xe knows / what they think, and they know / xe knows.
How to Appreciate Unwanted Things
He sheds tears for your ignorance, but breathes / relief, unburdened of long-unwanted antiques.
Słowa, z których składa się samotność
It's not my breasts or my uterus that define who I am, just as my disabled leg does not define it. My mind defines who I am.
Thoughts on being a fem agender: And never feeling queer enough.
No matter how I look, I do not belong to any gendered category. I am just being me.
Untraditional
I’m not a woman nor am I a man / Nor any gender known under the sun.