Ansexuality is a lack of interest in all kinds of sexual pleasure, interaction, or attraction, whether it be engaging in it or hearing about other people engaging in it. This sexuality can also be used to describe hate towards sexual feelings of anybody. This does not mean the person hates another, or themselves, or discriminates against others. It just means one has an intense hate towards any sexual feelings they have towards another or themselves.
In other words, ansexuality is used to describe somebody who strongly dislikes, or hates, the aesthetic of sex and/or genitalia, and overall dreads the idea of sexual attraction.
Some ansexual individuals might even feel a wave of hate towards even the smallest bit of attraction, even when just trying to find somebody’s appearance/aesthetic attractive. These feelings could either have happen on their own, or without explanation, the science behind it is currently unknown.
This does not mean that a person cannot be in a romantic, platonic, or other kinds of friendly/emotional/romantic relationships. Here are some things you could, and could not consider ansexual.
Ansexual vs. Asexual, What’s the Difference?
Ansexual Feelings
- Intense distaste once one almost begins to feel sexually aroused, i.e, looking away, hiding face, not to be confused with shyness. This technically doesn’t count as sexual arousal.
- Loss of appetite after looking at another, who would normally be attractive on other’s terms.
There are many more.
Asexual Feelings
- No sexual arousal, yet no hate/distaste.
The rest are on the Asexual page.Similar terms include sex repulsed, apothisexual, and anticarnal.