Do asexuals NEED dating sites?
One site that started letting people pick asexual as an orientation seems a little odd at first. The site caters to people with many fetishes that couples turn to spice up their love life in the bedroom. The Philadelphia Ace Examiner must warn the reader that this post may not be entirely safe to work. (He also wonders how many of his fellow Examiners find the title of Philadelphia Ace Examiner pretentious.)
Fetlife bills itself as a ‘Facebook’ for the Fetish community. Users can create profiles, explain what activities they would like to pursue, discuss their illicit activities, and hopefully find other like-minded people. Because it caters exclusively to fetishists, one may wonder exactly why they let users pick asexual or asexuality as one of the orientations that members can choose.
The term asexual may have a different meaning to fetishist than it does to people who simply do not experience sexual attraction, but if the term does meant he same thing, the owners of Fetlife have gone a step beyond the dating sites and recognized asexuality as an orientation. Romantic asexual relationships will be explored in later columns. Was it included because some people have a fetish in people who are not interested in sex or because some asexuals are into some aspects of the BDSM lifte style?
One can only hope the larger sites whose focus is actually on hooking up romantic partners will allow romantic asexuals to meet with others who share their orientation. For now, asexuals seeking romance must stick to the few sites that understand that some people do not want sex or find a partner who shares the same lack of interest in physical intimacy that the seeker does.
Courtesy Examiner.com
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