Understanding what the aromatic sexuality during the aromatic awareness week.
Love must be the most beautiful thing that can happen to any human being especially in our most imperfect selves.
With love the burden of having to be patient whenever the people we keep around us get on our nerves is lifted easily.
We experience love in different ways as humans, the love we get from our parents and friends and the intimate love. The intimate love for the longest time has been separated from the other types of love by attaching the romantic side of it.
But what about the people among us who have feelings of someone that is beyond friendship but they are not romantically attracted to them? Do we then say that they are not deserving of an intimate relationship simply because they find no interest in romance at all?
Yes, there are individuals among us who don’t find themselves physically attracted to others in a sexual way, they rather desire an emotional intimacy relationship, and this doesn’t really matter what gender you may represent. They are termed as “Aces” or “Ace”
As cliché as this sounds most of the people have little or no knowledge about Aromatic sexuality, people who identify as Asexual are misunderstood and stigmatized so this week provides an opportunity to raise awareness and promote acceptance.
Being aromatic comes with a lot of discrimination in their daily lives, from their potential partners who get to learn about the partner’s sexuality and also from the queer community that doesn’t understand them. There is a wide variety of experiences which makes it hard for aromatic individuals to love or even form a union as they are separated from those they love simply because they can not satisfy them romantically.
Being aromatic is hard, because the union is limited when you get attracted to someone else who is physically and sexually romantic. Most of the time it becomes hard to maintain a healthy relationship as two people meeting together end up parting ways and finding which works for either one of them.
The hardest thing comes from being misunderstood by most people who end up thinking that it’s a joke causing a lot of trust issues because coming out as an asexual to a potential partner who may think that the person in question is being physically intimate elsewhere.
Much as the experience varies based on shared interests, mutual respects and the desire to form a family. Aces find little or no interest in being romantically involved in a relationship as they can not relate to it in any way.
Moving forward, if you have a friend, sibling, partner who is this way, please show them love because they have a hard time on a daily and in their lives. Also be respectful, non judgmental and non dismissive of their feelings.
N.B kindly note that the views shared on this blog have been put together by different Rella selection team and most of them are their views which are not factual.
Please a comment below and I applaud you for the time and your journey on love and any other answers you were looking for.
3 Replies to “Understanding the Aromatic sexuality in the Aromatic awareness week”
leanna
24 Feb 2023Would we snuggle or fuck? 🙂 https://is.gd/dBsd60
ines
24 Feb 2023Cum in me or on me, I don’t really mind https://is.gd/dBsd60
darcy
27 Feb 2023Follow me to the bed, so I can spread for you https://is.gd/dBsd60