Talk:Yediot Ahrono
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One Of Their Kind
TRANSLATION FROM HEBREW (translated by user Illina –z):
You'd be surprised, but some people just don't find sex interesting The internet "a-sexual" forum was opened just for them Forum manager: "I like the looks of a handsome guy, but it's just like a work of art - I won't want to sleep with it" So there is a different sex.
Everyone talks about sex but you don't care? When a guy invites you up to his place for coffee you ponder which brand he uses? Surfing the internet yet you never "accidentally" found a porn site? If the answers are "yes", you probably belong to the asexuals' community - people who just don't find sex interesting.
Lately, a new forum for asexuals was started on the "Tapuz" forums site. There, they can talk about the issue, support each other and listen to those who feel like them. Slowly, the asexuality phenomenon starts to reveal itself. It's about women and men who don't feel sexual attraction towards the other sex or their own. Sex simply doesn't interest them, or as Hilli (pseudonym), a 25 year old from Tel Aviv, who manages the new forum in Tapuz defines it: "it's like having the whole world like cookies and only talk about cookies, and you'll be standing on the side and won't understand what the fuss is all about. The medical world still asks whether such a thing exists, and lately a few papers were published about it. But for Hilli, no article will change the way she feels - or, to be exact, doesn't feel.
Hilli discovered she was asexual in the hard way of growing up. While her friends were looking for contact with the other sex and started sexual relationships, she wasn't really interested in all that.
"I didn't know what's going on with me. I tried to convince myself to get attracted to guys, but that didn't really work", she says. "On some point I thought maybe I'm just attracted to women, but that wasn't it either. As I looked around I realised I was just not attracted to anyone".
She felt that way until she was around 20 years old, but a short look on the internet showed her many forums in the world that talk about the exact same feelings. Then she first encountered the term "asexual".
"I think asexuality is the fourth sexual preference of the human race. There are heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals and there are asexuals. I can marvel at a handsome guy, but it's just like marvelling at a work of art - I wouldn't want to sleep with it".
After realising that a large number of Israelis visits the foreign forums Hilli turned to the Tapuz forums site and pretty soon the new "asexuals" forum was started. Now she hopes that the community will expand and that more and more asexuals can find answers to the questions on their minds.
