Question for those who are Hypersexual.
Question for those who are Hypersexual.
So I know that despite the classic portrayal of an autist being someone who is asexual, many of us are at the opposite end of the scale. Yet if you search for Lemmy communities, there are several for asexual folk and none for hypersexual folk. Is there any good resources for us to rant/support each other/talk about our struggles? If it were specifically for neurodivergent folk, that would be a great bonus.
I think it's uncommon just because society doesn't really view it as a problem. Hypersexual women are so desirable people barely believe they could exist, and hypersexual men are just... normal. Every guy is like that, men only want one thing dontcha know.
It's the same thing as trying to talk about the difficulties of having a big dick - building a community is hard when every 2nd response is "lel imagine this being all you have to complain about dae charmed life".
It'd sure be great to have a support group, but you'd need the terminator of moderators to keep it from being overwhelmed by losers trying to hit up everyone that posts.
Hypersexuality that primarily exists in one gender is a massive problem for everyone. And I know there are hypersexual women who are in relationships with men with lower libidos (know one personally) - maybe they have a house or children or other emotional/financial anchor.
But yeah moderation sounds like a nightmare.
I'm pretty sure society would view it as a problem if they came home to find me fisting their mum. Which I would 100% do because I have no standards.
If I had to speculate wildly (oh nooooo not speculating-wildly, I hate doing that nooo...), the problem there is that they're discovering their mum getting fisted, not that you'd be willing to do that (maybe their mum is into it, not judging). Spending three minutes in a COD lobby will confirm the existence of people that want to fist your mum, I don't think anyone is particularly surprised by that aspect of the situation (except for the people discovering their mum in the act of getting fisted and, possibly, the mum). I'm not saying this is a bad idea, I am in a relationship with someone who's sex drive is waaaaaaay higher than mine and being able to talk about that would be awesome! I'm just saying that 'society at large' is awful, and anything that doesn't align very specifically with broad cultural values of something being 'a problem' is going to be overlooked or dismissed as 'whining' or 'being ungrateful' or whatever other toxic thing. Hence why that community doesn't exist yet.
By hypersexual, do you mean people who have/desire lots of sex, or people who are fixated on sex and related subjects as a topic of interest?
For me, it's more of the latter. Unfortunately there's no help out there I've been able to find. Best advice I have is to find the least unhealthy ways to satisfy those feelings and keep them pointed in that direction. In my case, that's been picking up art as a hobby and using it to illustrate weird kinky shit, and finding a select few people to share it with.
I've also found the modern social landscape, both online and irl, to be weirdly regressive on sexual topics. I'm not going around flying that flag per se, there's a time and a place, but people having weird kinks is a common topic of public ridicule.
In my case at least, an unmanageable sex drive. As in if I could spend all day every day having sex, I would only stop to replenish my electrolytes or pass out from exhaustion.
Yeah, that's definitely different from my experience, mine's more of a "get obsessed with a specific kink and see how far down the rabbit hole for it can go, rinse+repeat" thing. My actual sex life is pretty mundane, I have a stable relationship and we get it on a couple times a week, work schedules permitting.
Maybe it would help to involve other people if you can find them and your SO is open to it, although talking about sexual topics is pretty different from engaging in sexual acts. Mine isn't really into the same stuff I am from a fantasy perspective, so I have some specific friends that I go to for those topics.
You can find people who can relate in the !bipolardisorder@lemmy.world community because hypersexuality is one of the common symptoms of mania/hypomania. I don’t think we have any specific resources though. You are more than welcome to post there without having bipolar!
I don't know of any resources, and it's definitely something I feel like I can't talk about. You aren't alone!
Because you aren't hypersexual or because it's taboo? Your name suggests you're pretty spicy 😜
I'm a sex addict Aspie.
High five!
I don't think I've ever heard that Aspies or Autists are asexual. My experience has been that Aspies are very sexual since we don't have the normal social controls that normies do. I, a mid-50s man, was working a booth at AtlSecCon a couple of years ago and a young woman student walked up and started asking questions. I answered them and at some point the fact that I was an Aspie came up. She said, "I am too! What kind of Aspie are you?" I said that I was a sexy engineer Aspie. She replied that she was a sexy creative Aspie and asked me what I was doing later. The girl was probably 19. I told her that I was having dinner with my account executive and meeting an old friend.
I've also found that explaining what my being an Aspie means to normies makes things easier. Every now and then you run into one who understands and decides to take advantage of the opportunity which is awesome.