It's not about wanting to be in a committed, loving, close relationship before sex- that implies that you have attractions but choose to wait until you're in a relationship. It's about having no sexual attraction at all before being in that committed, loving, close relationship- the relationship is necessary for…

I might be willing to agree that it was just a tail end of normal if growing up that way didn't make me feel positively broken. Maybe I don't fully understand what women feel when they do feel attracted to someone. I didn't experience what I consider attraction for the first time until 20 after I fell in love with a…

It's only the same thing as "preferring monogamy" if by "preferring monogamy" you mean you aren't even ATTRACTED to someone until you're in a very close relationship with them.

Maybe you don't need the label or maybe it simply doesn't apply to you, so you don't need to use it- that's fine. But for some of us finding it is a relief because otherwise there *is* no accurate label for us. I grew up feeling broken and like I needed to fake crushes to fit in. I've been attracted to a grand total…

I consider myself demisexual. I've been attracted to one person in my entire life. To 99.999999% of the people I've encountered, I am asexual. It's nothing to do with libido itself and solely to do with sexual attraction (desire that's directed towards a person).

I don't consider myself "oppressed" because of it or…

If I get Chipotle, they give me 3 tacos and that means 3 lunches. They're sub-300 calories a piece, and doing it that way means the pricing is actually pretty reasonable. Especially when I did that on Sofritas Monday and had sofritas tacos three days one week, then steak tacos three days the next week. Delicious…

I've only been able to successfully have intercourse on my wedding night and that's the best kind of lead up there could ever be. We've tried lots of lube, lots of foreplay, etc. but it always ends in giving up and just doing anal because it's so much easier and less painful and I do actually enjoy it. I can't use…

I'm 24 and I've been volunteering with voter drives starting in 2012. I'm still pretty cynical that my vote as it stands for congress (but maybe not the senate) is meaningless thanks to the way my district in NC has been gerrymandered (I'm in one of the ones that looks like a snake and stretches across an absurdly…

Love Never Dies made about 0% sense to me for what anyone was doing. I'd prefer to ignore its existence (though I still enjoy Devil Take the Hindmost and The Beauty Underneath as songs).

That's a trend we see across lots of things though, to love characters who it would actually be a really terrible idea to have a relationship with...Raoul is mostly just completely uninteresting, so it does make sense that the focus would be on Erik.
Honestly I think in the book he comes off as more just completely…

I dressed as the Phantom to a dance as a teenager once. Wore a wig and everything to look like a man because I'm actually a woman. It wasn't at my normal school so people didn't know me. But they called me Erik and danced with me. :)

Oh, what a bummer. :( You definitely need that Phantom night then!

Oh I haven't really grown out of it (I'm 24 now)! It's just not an all-consuming obsession like it used to be as a teen with tons of free time. I'd spend hours reading and writing phantom of the opera fanfics, which I don't have time to do anymore...though I look occasionally and when I do find a really good…

That movie was my introduction to Phantom of the Opera actually, and I do think he did a fantastic job other than voice-wise (not blaming *him* for that, really). But my dad busted out his record of the original cast recording that night and I fell in love with Michael Crawford's voice and immediately read the novel…

YES THIS!: "Anything to replace the memory of the time some fool thought Gerard Butler was an adequate stand-in for Michael Crawford." I love Gerard Butler in pretty much everything else he's in, but Michael Crawford makes me melt.

"Wonderful news for those of you cherishing fond memories of their Phantom of the Operaph…

Haha, guess so!

I was obsessed with mustard as a 6 year old and wanted to make mustard cookies. I loved them, everyone else thought they were disgusting. Whatever.

Oooh I need a better lab coat! I manage to fit everything into pockets as is but it looks distorted but I like using pockets more than I dislike the distortion.

I carry a laptop bag with a shoulder strap. But I don't want to have to carry it across the hall with me from office to lab every time I need to switch just so I can unlock the door so I love having pockets just for keys/wallet/phone. And I hate the way purses look so when I have to wear a dress I always dread not…

My pants pockets are all on the sides of my pants, so I don't need to take my phone out to sit down. I have a wallet with like 10-15 card slots so everything fits fine in that. I hate makeup so lipstick and eyeliner aren't concerns for me. I just put phone and keys in one pocket and wallet in the other and I'm fine.…