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Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 11:18 Go to next message
timmy

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We have a new poll:

Sexual Drive and Desire

We're looking at all levels of drive, from allegedly addicted to wholly asexual. This type of poll is imperfect, so please attempt to fit yourself into the nearest answer. We do not mean masturbation. We mean sex, and with a live human partner. This is about desire, not about the actual sexual act itself. You may have a high sex drive and sex may not be available, for example.

I am addicted to sex. I need it at least daily, whether I get it daily or not
I have a high sex drive. Ideally I want sex daily
I have a high sex drive, but am content with every other day or thereabouts
I have a medium sex drive. I would like sex more than once a week
I have a medium sex drive. Once a week is lovely, but I am content with less
I have a low sex drive. Every couple of weeks is fine, but I am unconcerned if it is less often
I have a low sex drive. Monthly or so is fine by me, less often is ok, too
I have a low sex drive. I can take sex or leave it. The frequency is unimportant to me
I have a low sex drive. I do like sex, but am happy with it every so often. It is not important in my life
I am asexual, but I am tactile. I like touching and to be touched, hugged and snuggled. Sex itself does not interest me
I am asexual. I am not tactile. Sex does not interest me
I am asexual. I actively dislike sex and am happiest when not in a position where I feel I may be asked to be sexual
I am asexual. I do not dislike sex, but I simply do not want to have it
Whatever my sex drive I have chosen celibacy


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Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41235 is a reply to message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 11:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Aussie is currently offline  Aussie

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I think this poll would have been more interesting and relevant if it included ones age group.

Aussie
Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41236 is a reply to message #41235] Mon, 26 February 2007 11:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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I do not have the ability to ask supplementary questions, I fear. It is a very simple polling engine



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Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41237 is a reply to message #41236] Mon, 26 February 2007 12:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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set up first a set of links applicable to various age groups...

each link will go to a duplicate poll where age specific responses can be produced



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41238 is a reply to message #41237] Mon, 26 February 2007 12:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Aussie is currently offline  Aussie

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Marc you must agree with me then :0-)

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Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41239 is a reply to message #41237] Mon, 26 February 2007 12:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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True. Next time Smile



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Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41243 is a reply to message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 19:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tad Durham is currently offline  Tad Durham

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Timmy,
Would love to have sex as a result of feelings coming from companionship. But a companionship relationship is much more important for without that you have neither.



Tad Durham
Belfast, Maine U S A
I don't understand the exclusion of masturbation.  [message #41244 is a reply to message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 21:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Guenth50 is currently offline  Guenth50

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If I need it daily then I have daily, whether I have a partner available or not. At least in this point God made a fair decision.
Can you imagine a person who daily masturbates but choose low or medium sex drive?
The question was not: Can you or how you cope with you partners lower or higher sex drive. That would be a different (and more interesting?) matter.
Guenth

[Updated on: Mon, 26 February 2007 21:14]

Re: I don't understand the exclusion of masturbation.  [message #41245 is a reply to message #41244] Mon, 26 February 2007 21:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
NW is currently offline  NW

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For some people, the number of orgasms they have is relatively constant - the more they have with a partner, the fewer they'll have on their own. For others, it doesn't make much difference - they tend to masturbate the same amount whether or not they have a partner.

I have no idea why this should be so - but I've participated in discussions on this on other sites, and it does seem to be the case.


> Can you imagine a person who daily masturbates but choose low or medium sex drive?

In some senses, that may be me: with increasing age masturbation has gradually declined from eight or nine times a week to five or six ... but I haven't had sex with another person for 20 years, and the physical sex act is much less important to me than other forms of physical affection (hugs 'n cuddles).



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Hmmm, I dunno  [message #41246 is a reply to message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 21:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
nick is currently offline  nick

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I have always avoided sexual encounters. I suppose it is due to a combination of lack of desire, reservations about my ability to perform and it never occurring to me that anyone would be interested in me.

However, I can never quite pin down the extent to which my sex drive is low and the extent to which it is repressed (perhaps as a self-defense mechanism to avoid getting hurt).

In my heart I long to be loved and to have someone to love, and were I ever to find such a person I think I would want to express that love through some kind of physical dimension. But I find it difficult to envisage quite what form that physical dimension would take.

I am rather envious of those who are in touch with their sexuality, who know what they want and are not afraid to seek it out. Sometimes it feels that everybody is like that except me. But a visit to the asexuality discussion forums (http://www.asexuality.org/discussion) shows that that is not the case.
Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41248 is a reply to message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
saben is currently offline  saben

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More than once per day is where?



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Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41249 is a reply to message #41234] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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I used to be the non-existent option, "I have no idea what sex is like."

Now I'm another non-existent option, "I have not had an opportunity for sex, as I want sex, when I have it, to to be with someone I love as a friend."

Whether I will want it thereafter on a daily, weekly or monthly basis (with or without masturbation) I do not know.

David
Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41250 is a reply to message #41248] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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The first option.
Re: Sex. How important is it to you?  [message #41290 is a reply to message #41249] Sat, 03 March 2007 03:34 Go to previous message
silent lurker2 is currently offline  silent lurker2

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I used to enjoy it and think it was important. Now it's of no importance at all. I find the idea of it slightly repulsive.
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