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Some people label themselv as allosexual, meang they regularly experience sexual attractn, while others intify as <style data-emotn="css lec2h6">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;background-image:lear-gradient( to bottom, rgba(241, 220, 225, 1), rgba(241, 220, 225, 1));-webk-background-posn:0 100%;background-posn:0 100%;background-repeat:repeat-x;-webk-background-size:0 0;background-size:0 0;paddg-top:0.05rem;paddg-bottom:0.05rem;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-size:.625rem 3.125rem;background-size:.625rem 3.125rem;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="asexual" class="body-lk css-lec2h6 et3p2gv0">asexual</a> — or “ace” for short — meang they feel ltle to no sexual sire. 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them?</p></div><style data-emotn="css cc9qgg">{marg-bottom:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:NeHaasUni,NeHaasUni-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.6;letter-spacg:0.1em;text-transform:upperse;} span{le-height:1.6;}</style><div class="css-cc9qgg exadjwu7"><style data-emotn="css 19ap1i7">{font-style:normal;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:NeHaasUni,NeHaasUni-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.6;letter-spacg:0.1em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><addrs class="css-19ap1i7 ehvvd9m2"><style data-emotn="css wnw13o">{paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:NeHaasUni,NeHaasUni-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.6;letter-spacg:0.1em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><span class="css-wnw13o ehvvd9m1">By <style data-emotn="css 1mt1pvh">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#808080;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href="//thor/16322/katie-omalley/" class="css-1mt1pvh e1c1bym14">Katie O'Malley</a> and <a href="//thor/221030/becky-burgum/" class="css-1mt1pvh e1c1bym14">Becky Burgum</a></span><style data-emotn="css yhqb27">{display:le-block;text-transform:upperse;marg-left:0.625rem;paddg-left:0.625rem;}</style><time class="css-yhqb27 exadjwu6">Updated: 18 July 2022</time></addrs></div></div></div></hear><style data-emotn="css k008qs">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;}</style><div class="css-k008qs ewisyje0"><style data-emotn="css 7ce51e">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;posn:relative;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{max-width:lc(100vw - (1rem * 2));marg-left:1rem;marg-right:1rem;} .e152u5os0{width:100vw;marg-left:lc(-1 * 1rem);}}@media(m-width: 48rem) and (max-width: 61.25rem){{marg-left:to;marg-right:to;} .e152u5os0{width:100vw;marg-left:lc((100vw - (lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem) - 2 * 1rem)) / 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(max-width: 61.25rem){{max-width:45.25rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;}}@media(m-width: 61.25rem){{paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem) and (max-width: 100rem){{paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;}} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}{clear:both;ntent:" ";display:block;font-size:0.7rem;le-height:1.5rem;height:0rem;visibily:hidn;}</style><div class="article-body-ntent article-body standard-body-ntent css-z6i669 ewisyje7"><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Many people talk about havg a te, ep and meangful nnectn wh a person before wantg to get physilly timate.</p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">After all, for some, <strong>sex is as much about tst and emotn as is about the physily.</strong></p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'When we feel empowered, advote for our needs, and have self-acceptance, we are more likely to have enjoyable sex,' says sex and relatnship therapist <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Shaen Francis" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">Shaen Francis</a>. </p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">However, there's a select few members of society who don't jt strive to attach feelgs to sexual attractn, but view as a necsy, which means sual sex, a one-night stand or - some s - a kiss wh a stranger is pretty much a no-go.</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If this sexual orientated liftyle sums up your feelgs towards sex, emotn and relatnships, you might be what is known as a <strong>misexual</strong>. While the exact number of misexual dividuals the UK is unknown, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="this" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">this</a> misexualy subredd has over 69,000 members, #misexual has over <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="two ln mentns" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">two ln mentns</a> on Instagram, and over 266 ln mentns on <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="TikTok" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">TikTok</a>.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="6" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="Tiktok" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="tiktok in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Tiktok" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Tiktok</a></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css 17hzqm1">{font-weight:normal;marg-top:0.625rem;marg-bottom:0.625rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;font-fay:NeHaasUni,NeHaasUni-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;le-height:1;paddg:0.9375rem 1.25rem;width:-webk-f-ntent;width:-moz-f-ntent;width:f-ntent;} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="7" class="body-h4 css-17hzqm1 et3p2gv0">Here is everythg you need to know about misexualy:</h2><style data-emotn="css 1j0yp54">{font-fay:SaolDisplay,SaolDisplay-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-align:center;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.37595rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:3.00002rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:-0.02rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{font-size:3.00002rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="8" class="body-h2 css-1j0yp54 et3p2gv0">What is misexualy?</h2><p data-no-id="9" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2019, Brian Langev, executive director of <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Asexual Outreach" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">Asexual Outreach</a>, told the <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Guardian" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">Guardian</a>: </em>'Demisexualy is a sexual orientatn like gay or bisexual.'</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Acrdg to rource webse <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0"></a>, the meang of 'misexualy' n be fed as: '<strong>A sexual orientatn which someone feels sexual attractn only to people wh whom they have an emotnal bond.</strong></p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'Most misexuals feel sexual attractn rarely pared to the general populatn, and some have ltle to no tert sexual activy.'</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="12" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Love" tle="Love" loadg="lazy" width="3360" height="2240" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd2">South_agency</span><span class="css-wz9gt e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">To put simply, misexuals only like someone once they've formed a strong emotnal nnectn. Then, and only then, n the possibily of sexual attractn arise. </p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Francis not: 'If sexual attractn matters to you for sex, great that you know that. If not, that’s great too. What is most important is to know yourself and honour your needs.' </p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Lidia Buonaiuto, 30, explaed to <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="The Guardian" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">The Guardian</a></em>: 'I don’t fancy people. I don’t have a primary sexual attractn to anyone the way most people do, ever. I intify as straight and I’m not any way a p, but I need to have a ep emotnal nnectn wh someone before any sexual feelgs appear. Demisexualy is not a preference or personaly tra.'</p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">At school, Buonaiuto didn’t have csh, uldn’t relate to her peers nversatns about sexual sire and didn’t feel anythg for “objectively hot” boys who tried on wh her.</p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'I n’t have one-night stands or sexual pas or fancy a random person who is terted me,' says Buonao. 'I don’t have that sire at all, my bra don’t work that way and I forced myself to suatns that jt end up givg me a lot of emotnal distrs.'</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Buonao strs that she isn't celibate though. 'I have sexual urg but ’s only when I’m a relatnship that has e out of an tense emotnal nnectn first. I don’t have a physil "type", don’t matter what they look like,' she says. 'My sexual fantasi are never physil, will be about a guy g over to me a library, havg the same favoure thor, talkg, bondg … I n’t feel an urge for anyone whout that, and ’s so rare for me to fd at all.'</p><h2 data-no-id="19" class="body-h2 css-1j0yp54 et3p2gv0">Is misexual a new term?</h2><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="The Inpennt" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">The Inpennt</a> </em>reports the term 'misexual' first me to light 2006 on the webse of the <a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Asexual Visibily and Edutn Network" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">Asexual Visibily and Edutn Network</a> – a webse signed 2001 to provi a rource on all thgs asexual – and has been gag tractn ever sce, wh more and more people intifyg wh the orientatn. </p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'It’s very te that mographics skew far younger and the primary reason is that the asexual muny grew up on the ter. It wasn’t until 2001 that asexual people me to discs what had always existed but now had a language,' Langev told the <em>Guardian</em>.</p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Stgglg to intify wh her sexualy for years, 2016 <em><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Washgton Post" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">Washgton Post</a> </em>wrer Meryl Williams tailed how she me across the term 'misexualy' on Twter and started an vtigatn to what meant, which ultimately helped her e to terms wh her own sexual orientatn. </p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'I'm jt glad that a term for my sexualy exists, even if 's one I'll probably have to expla to my future partners,' she wrote. 'As I ntue to date, that nversatn will probably serve as a cent screeng procs.' </p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">After statg that she was queer durg Pri Month, 56th ernor of New York Andrew Cuomo’s dghter Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo announced July 2021 that she intifi as misexual.</p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Durg an Instagram Live nversatn wh activist Donato Tramuto, the 23-year-old said: ‘When I was elementary school, I feared that I was lbian. When I was middle school, I me out to my fay and close iends as bisexual. When I was high school, I disvered pansexualy and thought, “That's the flag for me.”’<br /></p><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div><p data-no-id="27" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She add: ‘I've recently learned more about misexualy and have believed that that inty ronat wh me most.’</p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Cuomo ntued, notg that she’s long dreamt of a world which no one needs to e out, ‘bee everybody's sexualy will be assumed fluid and none of our bs’.</p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">‘But a world that force-feeds cisgenr heterosexualy, g out of the closet is a lifelong procs of unpackg ternalised social nstctns and stigmas.’ </p><h2 data-no-id="30" class="body-h2 css-1j0yp54 et3p2gv0">What are the signs that you might be misexual?</h2><p data-no-id="31" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'<strong>Language helps scribe our experienc</strong>,' explas Francis. 'If folks fd the fns of misexualy or read the stori of misexual folks and feel like ronat wh them, they might ci to intify as misexual themselv.'<strong><br /></strong></p><p data-no-id="32" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Francis suggts askg yourself the qutns if you're wonrg whether you might be misexual:</p><style data-emotn="css 1rk79nl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;marg:0.9375rem 0 0 0.625rem;paddg:0 0 0 1.25rem;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:0.9375rem 0;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} li{paddg-bottom:0.625rem;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} li::marker{lor:#323232;}</style><ul data-no-id="33" class="css-1rk79nl et3p2gv0"><li>Is sexual attractn important to me general?</li><li>Is sexual attractn important to me the relatnships I have or want to have?</li><li>Who have I felt sexually attracted to the past? What was our relatnship? Did I feel attracted to them the begng as I was gettg to know them, or not until later? </li><li>Do I ever feel attractn to strangers or people I don’t know well?</li><li>How well do I have to know someone before I feel terted them?</li><li>When I image my future, are relatnships an important part of the story? If so, what kds of relatnships am I (faial, platonic, romantic)? </li></ul><p data-no-id="34" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In December 2016, Tr lnched almost <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="40 new genr and sexual orientated fn optns" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">40 new genr and sexual orientated fn optns</a>, welg ers of all mographics – be transgenr, genr-nonnformg, bigenr or pangenr – to a social datg muny that prevly disregard jt how wi-rangg sexual inti n be. </p><p data-no-id="35" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The same month, Williams wrote an <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="article" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">article</a> about fdg her sexualy and what life is like beg a 'misexual'.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="36" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="What means to be misexual" tle="Colourful stud portra of two women" loadg="lazy" width="3189" height="2129" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd2">Flashpop</span><span class="css-wz9gt e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Here are five signs, acrdg to Williams, you might be misexual:</strong></p><style data-emotn="css ixchkl">{font-fay:NeHaasUni,NeHaasUni-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.375rem;le-height:1.4;text-align:center;} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><p data-no-id="38" class="body-h3 css-ixchkl et3p2gv0">1) You've probably been lled a 'p'</p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Explag her experience of misexualy, Williams wrote: 'In my datg life, <strong>I've often scribed my sexualy as 'takg a while to warm up. </strong></p><p data-no-id="40" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'Years ago, I would feel guilty for tratg the people I was datg. I didn't want to feel as if I need to expla to people why I wasn't ready to be timate.'</p><p data-no-id="41" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If you've been labelled an 'ice queen' or 'old-fashned' when to sex and datg, uld be bee of your misexualy, she says. Williams argu that misexuals aren't generally terted one-night stands as they need to really know someone well before feelg a strong attractn. </p><p data-no-id="42" class="body-h3 css-ixchkl et3p2gv0">2) Looks are mostly irrelevant </p><p data-no-id="43" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">For misexuals, physil appearance is a non-factor when to formg romantic feelgs. </p><p data-no-id="44" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'I generally put tellect and sense of humour over how "attractive" someone is,' wrote Williams.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="45" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Holdg hands at river See" tle="Holdg hands at river See" loadg="lazy" width="3600" height="2400" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd2">Wtend61</span><span class="css-wz9gt e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="46" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'If a guy don't say anythg offensive and mak me lgh on a first date, I'll probably go on a send. Still, I know that a person's posive attribut don't necsarily guarantee that a physil attractn will follow. I jt have to be patient and see what happens.'</p><p data-no-id="47" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong> Demisexuals are attracted to personali over looks and more terted thentic nnectns. </strong></p><p data-no-id="48" class="body-h3 css-ixchkl et3p2gv0">3) Most of your relatnships start out as iendships</p><p data-no-id="49" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A level of plete tst and secury is one of the biggt attractns for you for misexuals. Those who intify this was feel safe and are much more attracted to someone once they feel fortable sharg tails about their life. </p><p data-no-id="50" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Dpe datg a society that is creasgly more open to the 'hook up culture' om onle datg, Williams adms that: 'Figurg out that I am misexual has been a relief, and hasn't changed much about how I date. I've never let physil attractn gui my datg cisns.'</p><p data-no-id="51" class="body-h3 css-ixchkl et3p2gv0">4) You put a lot of prsure on first dat </p><p data-no-id="52" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When to misexualy, 's ls likely that a misexual will want to waste their time - or that of another person - by ntug to date unls they're que sure they're attracted someone. </p><p data-no-id="53" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">However, they n't be posive that an attractn tly exists unls they give them a chance. As a rult, <strong>misexuals may fd themselv a tricky suatn when to knowg how much time to vt a potential relatnship</strong> and might tend to e across slightly tense on a first date.</p><p data-no-id="54" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2019, one misexual explaed their tratn wh datg on <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0"></a>, wrg: 'I hate datg. I always feel prsured bee the other person seems to get much more quickly attached than me.'</p><p data-no-id="55" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Another wrote: 'I jt don’t get how to meet people wh the sole purpose beg the possibily of a relatnship.'</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="56" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Demisexualy" tle="Demisexualy" loadg="lazy" width="3360" height="2240" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd2">Petri Ochger</span><span class="css-wz9gt e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="57" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">While misexuals might want to discs topics -pth attempt to really unrstand another person's personaly and their patibily, 's important to be aware of when this procs n turn to an terrogatn of sorts. <br /></p><p data-no-id="58" class="body-h3 css-ixchkl et3p2gv0">5) You enjoy sex but isn't the most important factor</p><p data-no-id="59" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Unlike sexual behavur, sexual attractn n't be ntrolled or forced to happen.</p><p data-no-id="60" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Contrary to asexualy (the absence or low tert sexual activy), <strong>misexuals are <em>pable</em> of feelg sexual attractn but only when they form a ep emotnal bond wh another person.</strong> </p><p data-no-id="61" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">So, sexual attractn <em data-redactor-tag="em">is</em> possible but might take a ltle longer to velop for misexuals than for most people. </p><p data-no-id="62" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">And, let's be clear, this isn't about sex or a lack of libido, rather the need for emotnal timacy to feel attractn. </p><p data-no-id="63" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'Intifyg as misexual don’t change how you experience sex, mak clearer when or how you might be terted sex!' explas Francis.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="64" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="misexualy" tle="Demisexualy" loadg="lazy" width="2663" height="1775" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd2">blackCAT</span><span class="css-wz9gt e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="65" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She adds: 'It’s important to note that attractn is not required for sex, and isn’t necsarily better to have sexual attractn than not. </p><p data-no-id="66" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">'If sexual attractn matters to you for sex, great that you know that. If not, that’s great too. What is most important is to know yourself and honour your needs.' </p><h2 data-no-id="67" class="body-h2 css-1j0yp54 et3p2gv0">Is there a misexual flag?</h2><p data-no-id="68" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Due to the siari wh <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="asexualy" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">asexualy</a>, the misexual pri flag has been signed g the asexual flag's lours, but arranged a different pattern.</p><p data-no-id="69" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">While the asexual flag is formed of simple, horizontal strips of black, grey, whe, then purple, <strong>the misexual flag has a black triangle on the left hand si</strong> as seen below<strong>.</strong></p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="70" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="What means to be misexual" tle="Demisexual Pri Flag" loadg="lazy" width="5053" height="3369" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd2">-1001-</span><span class="css-wz9gt e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1x75tyf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="71" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">For both flags, black symbolis asexualy, purple symbolis muny and grey reprents 'Grey-Ace' (those fallg between sexual and a sexual, they have some or ocsnal feelgs of sexual sire) and misexualy, acrdg to <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Enty" class="body-lk css-1mt1pvh et3p2gv0">Enty</a> </em>magaze. </p><p data-no-id="72" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Meanwhile, the meang of whe reprents sexualy on the misexual flag. 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