Remember that old Greek myth, about how there were once just humans, but then the gods split them apart into man and woman, and they become obsessed with trying to fit themselves back together?
Maybe that's actually a nice metaphor for sexuality overall, hetero- homo- auto- or what-have-you-sexual. Sexuality is in some way, an attempt to fix what is broken. That is why other peoples' sexual hang-ups can seem silly or pointless - because it's not something we ourselves lack. From our point of view, it seems like the other person is trying to fix something that isn't broken.
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Even if it's not literally true, which I will not argue because I don't know, but either way it's a great metaphor. Trying to complete ourselves by finding a person whose brokenness perfectly mirrors our own.
What does that make masturbation? Is it something like putting plaster over the damage?
When did this turn from sexual orientation to sex? It might not have anything at all to do with the act in itself, whichever it may be, and more with the connection with the other half of said broken whole. No?
But there are people who claim to be autosexual, i.e. they have a sex drive, they just don't want any partner. If that is a "real" sexual orientation, it sort of messes up the charts a little.
(Asexuality is easier to explain, really)
Maybe autosexuals are complete, then.
or maybe they don't strive for the same completion, or achieve it in other aspects of their lives?
Well, of course, complete on this scale, is what I meant. No one aspect of your life can make you complete in all things, really.
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