Glasgow ( @Glasgow@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 months agoWhat’s a neuter
A person without any sexual attributes.
Glasgow ( @Glasgow@lemmy.ml ) English2•2 months agoWhat’s a sexual attribute? Like asexual? agender?
All the biological sex stuff
Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months agoIs it a legit term I haven’t heard for aro/ace/agender folk? Or do you mean like a Ken doll (no titties, no nipples, no genitalia)
What I’m asking is, if you have none of those sexual urges coloring your consciousness, would you find romcoms boring?
Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months agoGotcha, that’s a reasonable question. I’m not able to answer, unfortunately 😭
I do have a friend who’s aro/ace and has zero interest in sex, but they’ve written a lot of romance. It’s not their main thing but they still seem to really enjoy it. I think well-developed characters can make any kind of goal interesting, even if it’s not one you’d ever have. I don’t know how many romcoms bother with that level of development, though.
Krafty Kactus ( @tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ) English4•2 months agoWtf?
Sturgist ( @Sturgist@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 months agoThe only thing I can think is that OP is considering getting everything cut off/out and not taking hormone replacements, but is concerned that no longer having “normal” levels of hormones for either gender might negatively affect their crippling addiction to RomComs and RomCom accessories.
OmgItBurns ( @OmgItBurns@discuss.online ) English2•2 months agoAre we talking people who have had their gonads removed and don’t have any hormone replacement? Are we talking people born completely without any system for producing sex related hormones? Are we including around/ace people? I feel like there’s a lack of definition but I’m not 100% sure it matters.
Not being part of this group, I’m just going to take a shot in the dark and say it depends on the person. You don’t necessarily need to feel romantic attraction to a person to empathize with characters in a fictional story. You also don’t even need to empathize with the characters to find the concept interesting. Just like folks who do have sexual or romantic feelings, some will enjoy those types of stories and some won’t.