Question Of the year

[Elin]

I was joking in my opening post, but i really want to know why some people choose to not have sex or in your case how could you not be intrested in it? Sex is a primal instinct built into every single living creature. Honestly I think if you say you have no intrest in sex ,you are lying, saying that is like sayng you have no intrest in surviving

Um...I can't really explain it any better than 'I'm just not interested in it'. I guess it's the same with homosexuality? If you ask the average gay person why they like people of their own gender, I doubt they'll have much of an answer for you beyond 'I just do'. It's the same for me. It's just the way that I feel. I don't really have any interest in sex with either gender, and I don't really have any desire to forge relationships that go beyond close friendship. I don't mind what the scientific explanation is. It could be a sex drive dysfunction for all that I care. All that matters is that I'm quite happy this way, and thus I don't really feel that it needs to be changed, nor do I mind if other people don't believe it.

And lying? Possible. It could be that there's some deeply suppressed piece of me that's blocking my interest in sex, and I just won't admit it to myself. But again, it's a question of whether or not it's upsetting to me, and thus whether it's worth the effort to resolve. I can't say for sure why I am this way, but I don't really see it as a problem, so why ask questions? Faking an interest in sex as a teen, though? That was a problem. That actually upset me a great deal, and felt a thousand times more like lying...

Everyone has a sex drive, I just think some people try to supress the sex drive or maybe there are just some external factors that prevent a person acknowledging that they do in fact require sex to survive.

edit-
My answer was in response to the one member who said he/she has no intrest in sex.

To survive? No. To send forward my own genes, perhaps. But on an individual basis, sex isn't a necessity on the same level as food or water. I'll grant you the fact that it's a necessity on the scale of our entire species, but there's more than enough people out there having sex and making babies already. Any contribution I could make would be quite irrelevant. ^_~