Meaning behind Asexual?

jack187625 Xper 6

I have no problem with people who define themselves as this, just the word in general. Before it meant that there was no sexual attraction at all, it meant reproduction without two gametes meeting. This is already a biological term to do with reproduction so why use it to mean another dissimilar biological thing? Am I looking into this to much?

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TangledTK Xper 5
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Most people get this internal "they look hot, I wanna bang them" feeling while asexual people... don't. It doesn't mean they are 100% against sex (some are) nor does it mean they don't masterbate, they're just not attracted to others in that way.
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- jack187625
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  Fair enough, but not the point I was trying to make. Point I was trying to talk about is that it was already scientifically defined before.
strangytie Yoda
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Asexuality has a secondary definition now like gay. Gay used to mean happy but now we all correlate it with being attracted to the same gender. Or sex, it defines your chromosomes or genitals or act of reps or crook
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- strangytie
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  *reproduction

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Buckzor Yoda
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Biologically yes asexual means there's no possibly way to reproduce through male and female (very basic).
Relating to humans, assxual generally means the lack of desire to reproduce (I think)
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- jack187625
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  Basically yes, but surely this a contradiction? Humans are animals. For instance the sentence 'Humans are not asexual' makes perfect sense, correct? By that logical you then can't use the word asexual in the way you describe because it is conflicted with the original sentence.
- Buckzor
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  Yes, I think it is. The only reason we are on this earth, is to reproduce, we, especially as men have natural instincts to impregnate women. It's a survival mechanism so the human race will continue to live. I think the people who use the term just like to use fancy words to justify their own "beliefs" or "actions" or whatever, when necessarily they're probably more likely to be some sort of disorder.
- jack187625
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  My point is though, why use that word? Why not create a new word for this situation?
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- Buckzor
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  Because it's the socially accepted word at this point, for whatever reason.
Aizou Master
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In humans. Asexuality is the absence of any sexual desire. :)
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- jack187625
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  But in animals it isn't. Humans are animals. For instance the sentence 'Humans are not asexual' makes perfect sense, correct? By that logical you then can't use the word asexual in the way you describe because it is conflicted with the original sentence.
- Aizou
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  The problem with a basic descriptions of humans start with the fact that we're aware of ourselves. Free will, in other words. A general description always only follows the 'norm' or 'average'. You're right that humans are glorified animals, and that humans per definition is a sexual species.. But there are fluctuation and changes, once a species become aware/becomes an individual. Like, if we're saying men likes women/women likes men.. does that make everyone else, 'not human'? I don't think it does. Humanity is interesting, because we aren't that easily described/classified. :)
- jack187625
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  I completely agree, but my point isn't that of human behaviour. My point is of a language standpoint. The word already has a scientific definition, why use the word to describe something similar (in a broad sense). Surely this is pointless and can create confusion. Equally, the original definition is now being erased, this will end up causing confusion and offence.
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- Aizou
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  For benefit's sake. Time goes on, changes are made, that's the rule of life. What science at one point found a fact, may change in the next instant, as we spend more time, and learn more of what there is to learn. Animals do indeed have a thing called Asexual Reproduction.. This is indeed different to the meaning we've applied to an Asexual human. It's beneficial to us, in describing what that person feels. Knowing what you are, as opposed to not knowing, can give quite the peace of mind, after all. :)

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Crazy_Diamond Xper 2
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It means not having sexual attraction for anybody, from being indifferent to seeing it as disgusting. There can still be romantical attraction though
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- jack187625
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  That's what it now partially means, not what it originally meant is my point, they have changed something with scientific meaning to mean something else.
CT_CD Master
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not involving the fusion of gametes.
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a person who has no sexual feelings or desires.
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- jack187625
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  The lower one is much newer though, these terms can be contradictory, ergo the newer one shouldn't have that definition?