What is your Sexual Orientation?

[VeloJello]

I'm about 90% sure that I'm asexual; if I'm not, then I'm demisexual. I've never had a close enough romantic connection with anyone to really gauge my feelings on the matter properly, but I have never experienced sexual attraction of any kind toward anyone, and given that I often feel uncomfortable about things pertaining to sex, I have serious doubts that that will change any time soon.

That said, I am decidedly not aromatic (which, Corey, maybe that should be an option in the poll...?). To be precise, I'm heteroromantic (being female, I'm romantically attracted to males), and I form romantic attraction pretty easily, although as I said I haven't ever had much of a strong romantic connection before. Due to a combination of circumstances (my own weird mental wiring + never really knowing any guys who I thought attractive in any way), though, I never actually had so much as a crush until I was about 15! Even after I formed the crush, though, my attractions were rather strictly limited - all I really wanted, or want now, out of any hypothetical partnership was/is kisses, cuddles, emotional support, and shared interest in nerdy media. I was pretty happy when I stumbled across the concept of asexuality after I joined Tumblr (I think this was about a year ago...?); it made perfect sense to me, and it fit me to a T.

Fortunately, sexual/gender identity has never been much of a struggle for me, although it was really cool to find an identity that fit me so well. I personally actually enjoy being asexual; it's a little irksome to have people telling me that I'll "come around when I find the right guy" or some such, but it's one less complication that I have to worry about. Now it's just a matter of actually finding the right guy - namely, the one who simply wants kisses, cuddles, emotional support, and shared interest in nerdy media, where any further escalation is secondary, and mutually a non-expectation upon the relationship's entry.

So, yeah! Ace pride!

[Corey]

That said, I am decidedly not aromatic (which, Corey, maybe that should be an option in the poll...?).

I was unsure of putting the romantic orientation on the poll as they aren't sexual, and I was mainly gonna leave it to the person to explain their romantic orientation. O: I do know that some people won't post due to various concerns, though, so I dunno. I can't edit polls anyways. xD /shot