From 6f04f5bc29e3ac5eb35830e104a468862db2da5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikaela Suomalainen Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 20:58:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] about: rewrite Ace & Poly-curious, Ace & RA --- pages/about.markdown | 52 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/about.markdown b/pages/about.markdown index 23a7458..fee8bb4 100644 --- a/pages/about.markdown +++ b/pages/about.markdown @@ -80,43 +80,31 @@ while I speak. Same applies to understanding your speaking. *This paragraph is stub -.-* -## Ace +## Ace & Relationship Anarchist -I am demiromantic asexual. That means that I +*I am asexual and possibly relationship anarchist, but it will be seen* -* can feel romantic attraction when I have formed close emotional bond - with someone regardless of gender. -* don't feel sexual attraction. -* can feel aesthetic attraction though. +I used to define myself as poly-curios (not sure if poly or not) and +demiromantic (the ace of diamonds playing card is their symbol shared by +demisexuals) which means only forming romantic attraction after forming +close emotional bond with the person -The Ace of Diamonds (🃁) that you can see in my biography means *demiromantic asexual* or *demisexual*. Ace is asexual slang and means asexual -*(surprise!)* and the playing cards have been adopted into different -orientations. +At some point I started wondering does touching and caring have to be +limited into relationship and found +[Romantic Asexual, or Touch Hunger?](https://abnormaldiversity.blogspot.fi/2012/12/romantic-asexual-or-touch-hunger.html?) which made sense and made +me think that there is no romanticity, just sensuality and in the bottom +relationship anarchy. As what is the difference between friend and partner, +what prevents you from (consentually) cuddling or having sex with friends? +What prevents you from loving your friends and is loving so different from +liking and don't you sometimes use the words interchangeably? What prevents +you from doing all the things you wish to do with your partner with some +friend? What if love comes after you stop for especially looking for one +or multiple people to call as partner(s)? -*I feel I should type something more here, but I have no idea what...* +*I am not so sure about this as I might seem in typing this, but what will +happen will be seen when it happens.* -## Poly-curious - -*This part will get renamed and rewritten when I find out which I am if - ever and this doesn't read on the short bio as I consider it as irrelevant - there. People are more likely to seek for trans/aspie/ace people than - poly for some sort of peer support.* - -I might be poly, but I am not sure. If I am, that means that I can have -multiple partners and that is some sort of requirement of asexuality as -relationships between asexual and allosexual (person who feels at least -average level of sexual attraction) are doomed to fail unless at least the -allosexual is poly and can satisfy their sexual desires elsewhere. - -I think that if I am poly, the most suitable relationship type is possibly -open relationship. - -Further reading: -* [Polyamory at Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory) -* [Open relationship at Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_relationship) -* [More Than Two](https://www.morethantwo.com/) - -*Does this page have worse section?* +* [Relationship anarcy at Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_anarchy) ## Feminist