Struggling with my asexuality

Questioning / Confused

I've always understood sexuality to mean the genders you're sexually attracted to and so I've always identified as asexual because I've never been sexually attracted to any genders, I've always found people aesthetically attractive but never wanted to have sex with specific genders or specific people. After I had my first consensual sexual encounter though it's made it a lot harder to understand who I am. I enjoy sex, it feels nice and my partner is someone I care about deeply but I don't... Feel attracted to him sexually. I don't look at her and go, "wow I am so turned on let's have sex now" so... That's it right? I'm just an asexual that enjoys sex? We'll not quite. I don't look at any genders and feel sexual attraction but I've found that if I'm looking at male genitals I feel what I think is sexual attraction? But if a person's face is visible I have to look away because I get... Weirded out I guess? Even during my consensual sex I had to close my eyes or look away from my partners face because it took me out of it. Does that just make me a gay man?? Am I not asexual??? I don't feel sexually attracted to my partner but we still had consensual sex so what does that mean???? I keep trying to just go "fuck it who cares" and drop any label besides aromantic but it keeps nagging at the back of my head.

Posted Jan 15, 2024, 4:05 PM UTC

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