One of my favourite things about writing about my personal experiences is that sometimes it inspires other people to think about those aspects of their own lives. I have a feeling that this post on From Fandom to Family is going to make me write more about this myself!
I just finished reading Kasey Weird’s old blog post from April 2013 on Feeling Sexy, which I had not come across before.
https://valprehension.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/feeling-sexy/
I read the post, and NessieMonster’s comment on it, too, which then turned into a full blog post on NessieMonster’s own blog, and I read that too:
And then Kasey Weird wrote a follow-up post with further thoughts on the topic:
https://valprehension.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/further-thoughts-on-feeling-sexy-and-also-on-dating/
After all that…
Today, Jo posted a nice index of all of her blogging on asexuality. In it, I discovered this interesting post from 2012 titled, Sex or Society: the pressure to be attractive (an experiment):
Jo’s post there includes a lot of comments from asexual-spectrum folks on whether or not they think their asexuality influences their desire (or lack thereof) to “look sexy”, to “be attractive”, etc.
Those four posts give me some insight on the phenomenon of feeling sexy…
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Thanks for the reblog! I don’t know if you saw but Laura (ace-muslim) left a comment on my post now too. ;) I’m glad it’s resonating with some people.