Off topic...I always thought Quivering Loins would be an awesome band name.

That is why I think a lot of people who identify with these labels are relatively young (teens and early 20s). Because it seems like everyone around you is some raging horndog ready to pounce on any genitalia—-and some people are! But most people are not. Most people, most of the time want to have sex with a…

If a label helps people feel more "normal" or better about themselves then that's cool.

If I thought my hilarious bus joke needed an overly earnest armchair psychology reading, it certainly would sound like this.

I agree - these descriptions sound like, well, everyone. Everyone's sexual desires can change with age, partner, situation. Sometimes it can be due to medications, hormones, or depression, but sometimes not, and even if it were, that doesn't make it any less real. It doesn't seem to be abnormal to me to not want to…

I had to look up demi-sexual, and that just sounds like preferring monogamy. That hardly makes someone a sexual minority.

I'm going to get flamed for this but I guess I don't care: The difference is the empowerment that a label gives to some people. It's like it validates them.

This is a sincere question: What differentiates the asexual/demisexual/etc. spectrum from just having varying levels of libido and/or thresholds of chemistry? I'm reading over these stories and it just doesn't sound like anything more complicated than having various levels of sexual excitability and compatibility. …

How dare you rob people of their snowflakery

It sounds "relatable" because most of what asexuals describe is just totally normal, average sexual interest and expression. For some reason they decided to borrow a bunch of concepts and terminology from queer usage but — at least from what I have seen — the majority of them aren't really outside the norm.