For asexual people who experience it, romantic attraction is an independent experience from sexual attraction, which may look odd from an outside perspective. If it’s real and intense and compelling, then why doesn’t it inspire the feelings most people expect when they feel it themselves? Believing the love isn’t fully there unless sex is desired too is like believing a tailless dog is never happy based on the notion that all dogs wag their tails if they’re happy. For asexual people, sexual attraction is just not in the equation; like the tailless dog, it’s just not there to wag. Romantic
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