JoanieDark

On 4/3/2016 at 1:29 PM, 46odnetnin said:

And when they do stupid, stupid things "in the name of love". It drives me up the wall. I have had to study romeo and juliet 3 times and every time I get so annoyed at the plot.

Sorry to comment on a post from over a year ago, but I discovered I'm too into Baz Luhrmann, as all I can think of right now is various scenes in Romeo+Juliet and Ewan McGregor's singing in Moulin Rouge.

I remember asking my parents to arrange a marriage for me when I was young, since I couldn't see the point of marriage aside from taxes and reproduction, and I thought they could find me a wealthy partner. There was also me playing with Barbies and instead of sending Barbie and Ken on dates, I had the women competing for the harem very Highlander style with intense battles but no romance ever. Weird kid, I know. 

In highschool I kept getting Accidental Boyfriends too; I'd go with someone to a dance or something, and instantly we were dating. The most "romantic" relationship I got into in highschool was a political ploy to become the leader of a social group.

I...may not have had the healthiest trip into aromanticism.

18 hours ago, NullVector said:

I always saw it as romantic rather than sexual. I think probably due to the trope in so many romantic movies about that 'magical first kiss' that 'changes everything between us'. I think for that reason the idea of kissing has always weirded me out a bit and triggered a degree of romance repulsion/anxiety in me.

 

Um, yeah, now you mention it, always really wanted to try this  

The idea of it appeals to me way more than kissing does! (and doesn't trigger any repulsion/anxiety ; quite the opposite, actually!)

Ahaha, well I don't exactly have magical first kisses so much as drunkenly making out with friends, so...

(And also I second Delta V cunnalingus is A+ 11/10 you should try it)

On 4/16/2017 at 6:46 AM, DeltaV said:

Let's take this comic from an asexual lady, picture 03: “Let me go ahead and assure you that I am all in favor of cuddling ...  kissing ...  and making out ...”

 

In this case, it's the more parsimonious explanation that people can enjoy open-mouth kissing if they experience romantic attraction. Sexual attraction is not needed!

I...guess that's fair, I can't talk for romantics obviously. Then again, I can make out with people I'd never wanna go to third base with, so I guess I can kinda peripherally get it.

On 4/14/2017 at 3:40 AM, DeltaV said:

Interesting old threads surface here from time to time.

 

 

Personally, I'd rather do any chore rather than engaging in a long making-out session. Brrrhhh. I'm really torn if cleaning a public toilet is worse than that.

(Sorry I necro'd a bunch of threads when I joined :P)

Also totally off topic, but for the most part cleaning public toilets isn't too bad in my 8 meager months of experience, haha

I stopped shaving my legs in high school for a really stupid reason--I despise the feeling of jeans on bare skin. I'm enough of a self-centered person that no relative could nag me into shaving, cuz I didn't want gross legs, dammit! It was a lot easier to avoid a lot of other mandatory tasks placed upon the female class by the patriarchy after that.

Hardcore lesliebean. I may not identify as a woman, but I'm very in touch with this female human vessel I live inside. I guess the only way gender has ever effected me is I feel gay as heck no matter who I'm attracted to? To be honest, the gender of a person I am sexually or aesthetically attracted to affects my feelings more than my conceptualization of personal gender.

I know a TON of dysphoric women in online lesbian/butch circles, so yeah, it's definitely a thing. Some of them are even detransitioned, but working hard on accepting themselves.

I am in a kinda tricky category...I don't think of myself as trans, but since I also don't see myself as a woman, a lot of people would say I'm not cis. I'd say if I count as cis, hell yeah I have dysphoria out the yin yang. Nothing I can really solve, though. Lots of people have various issues that cause physical, sexual, or social dysphoria for whatever reason. Human brainmeats are weird.

On 2/8/2017 at 6:49 PM, Ettina said:

Hunchback of Notre Dame

???????????? That was a movie about three people wanting to get it on with a chick? I guess it's more sexual than romantic in all fairness...

Speaking of sexual but not romantic, YMMV, but I really loved Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. It's basically about chicks conning their way into a free vacation in Hawaii because these brothers were forced by their parents to bring dates, and while there's couples at the end, they really just seem like a bunch of bros who have sex with each other as opposed to romantic partners. Also in 22 Jump Street there's a bunch of jokes based around Jenko/Schmidt and Zook/Schmidt, both of whom I could 1000% see as being in QPRs.

(I...have a certain taste in movies.)

On the more innocent side of things, there was 0 romance in Moana, if you haven't seen it yet somehow. 

I should also compile a list of other films of various genres I like that have no romance or mild background romance.

Kissing has always been a distinctly sexual thing to me, since I was little-little. I still remember being scolded for not kissing relatives because the concept disgusted me, haha. (I didn't know non-sexual open-mouth kissing even existed? Is...is that a thing for romantic people? How?) Even "platonic" kisses feel like they're supposed to lead to something sexual to me, which makes me uncomfy sometimes.

Something that I DO view as romantic 90% of the time is holding hands. It makes me super uncomfortable to hold hands with someone for more than a few seconds. Far too intimate.