ASEXUALITY

Who are asexuals?
The asexual they are voluntary sexual abstinent. Normal people, men or women, individuals who are neither marginal nor fanatic, but who simply do not feel sexual attraction, for anyone. And - in this lies the novelty - they do not hide it! It is difficult to know the number. Some studies evoke an (exorbitant) percentage of 1% of the world population! There are two categories of people who do not have a sex life. Those who feel neither the desire nor the need, and those who, on the contrary, repress their instincts. And the main difference is that the former can be happy and satisfied once their asexuality is accepted, while the latter are not capable of it. The first group will be able to devote their energies to other things. The second group will turn frustration into anger or rage instead.

The origins of the phenomenon
Psychologists, journalists and sociologists all have their own explanation. Overexposure to porn, the 90s too Freudian (everything is sex), rejection of the dictatorship of pleasure or desacralization of sex, which has gone from hidden to exhibited. Abstinence is no longer a shame, but becomes a reason for pride. Or at least one right, which is being claimed.In the United States, a 24-year-old boy has even founded a movement: the A-pride attitude (the movement of asexual pride), and his site, Aven, is receiving more and more visits.

The psychological causes
Apparently it would all happen in the latent period. Between 6 and 10 years. It is the time when you stop taking an interest in sexuality (after years of curiosity). Normally, this "sexless" period ends in adolescence. But, in some cases, it continues, sometimes for a lifetime. In individuals who refuse to grow up and in those who are afraid of their erotic dreams and, judging them immoral, decide to repress them.