Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality

[etbe]

I just started reading Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality by Isabelle Henault. It has some interesting points but then on page 31 it says "Homosexual and masturbatory behaviors can therefore result from unsatisfying or limited contact with the opposite sex".

The book was recommended by a psychologist who specialises in ASDs, I'm wondering if it's worth my time to read the rest after she gets something so wrong.

 

[Ylva]

I don't know what the "therefore" referred to, but it doesn't sound that far-fetched. Masturbation might replace sex, and soldiers in all-male armies have been known to engange in intercourse with each other when away from home and women for a long time.Now if she says all homosexual behaviour results from limited contact with the opposite sex, then it's time to wonder.

Obviously, if one is homosexual, sexual contact with the opposite sex would be unsatisfying. Obviously.

 

[Ereth]

I Obviously, if one is homosexual, sexual contact with the opposite sex would be unsatisfying. Obviously.

It's not really an obvious conclusion. You can be gay and be attracted to someone of the opposite sex. Sexuality is complicated.

 

[etbe]

Ereth: There's the Kinsey scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to measure graduations varying between straight, bisexual, and gay. While it's problemmatic in some ways it's a lot better than just straight vs gay. So if gay is defined as Kinsey 6 then by that definition someone who's gay can't experience opposite sex attraction.

Someone who's totally straight (Kinsey 0) won't experience homosexual attraction even if they have no opportunities for straight sex.

But the whole thing of implying that masturbation is bad (surely it's better than sex with someone who's not suited to you) and implying that homosexual behavior is bad (it's good for people who are gay/bi/pan) is wrong.

Finally I'm not aware of any evidence that masturbation is limited to people who aren't having good sex.

 

[2aspirin]

I just started reading Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality by Isabelle Henault. It has some interesting points but then on page 31 it says "Homosexual and masturbatory behaviors can therefore result from unsatisfying or limited contact with the opposite sex".

The book was recommended by a psychologist who specialises in ASDs, I'm wondering if it's worth my time to read the rest after she gets something so wrong.

Have not read this and don't want to judge it too much out of context, but what you quote sounds really unprofessional of this author, if she is a psychologist.

 

[aspieoutlaw89]

i'm attracted to giant teddy bears.they provide a much better alternative to physical intimacy with NT women that are chubby.

 

[Mr Allen]

OK I've never had a serious relationship with anyone of the opposite gender and I'm now early 40's, but contrary to popular belief I am NOT gay, I've just spent the last 30 odd years watching pro wrestling, which contrary to popular opinion isn't just sweaty men in short tights hugging each other.

 

[Jacoby]

I don't think I am abnormal physically in this regard, I am human just like everyone else. It is something you kind of have to repress tho when your on the spectrum or screwed up as me, with how sex obsessed & hedonistic modern western culture is it's pretty easy to start thinking your some sort of asexual or that something is wrong with you for it not to be eating you up 24/7 but I don't believe things were always this way. There was a time when people prioritized getting married & having a family rather than reveling in their 'liberation' to be degenerates without shame.

 

[Ylva]

It's not really an obvious conclusion. You can be gay and be attracted to someone of the opposite sex. Sexuality is complicated.

You can be sexually attracted to one gender and romantically attracted to another (I add four years later).