From Pansexuals to Antisexuals: A Guide to Contemporary Sexuality

These are people who equate sex with an addiction - like smoking, drug addiction or alcohol. In their opinion, because of sex, people commit rash acts and harm themselves.

Sexual desire is considered an addictive disorder: “Sex is a drug addiction that follows the classic scenario, with addiction, withdrawal symptoms and uncontrollable actions. The only difference between sex lovers and drug addicts is that in the former the drug is produced by the body itself. It is customary to call love madness. For a reasonable person, the true meaning of life should be creativity, knowledge and self-improvement.”

This is the self-determination of people who experience no or very weak sexual attraction to other people. Simply put, these are people who just don't want to have sex. Until now, scientists and society have not come to the same conclusion whether asexuality should be considered one of the types of sexual orientation or simply a low sexual temperament.

Asexuals, unlike antisexuals, do not have a negative attitude towards sex and the people who engage in it, they just want nothing to do with it.

Studies conducted on sheep have shown that about 2-3% of the studied individuals have no apparent interest in mating at all with individuals of either sex. In other studies done on rats and gerbils, up to 12% of males showed no interest in females. Their relationships with other males were not calculated, but these studies are also valuable in considering asexuality.

In a UK sexuality survey that included a question about sexual attraction, 1% of respondents responded that they had “never felt any sexual attraction to anyone at all.”

“Demi” are people who are unable to become intimate with a person to whom they have no emotional attachment. That is, one night stand is not an option for such people.

Heteroflexible people (phew!) are mostly heterosexual. That is, these are those men and women who spend most of their lives having sex with people of the opposite sex, but sometimes they can afford something “alternative”. However, they differ from bisexual people in that they do not claim to be attracted to both men and women.

Pansexuals are capable of being attracted to people regardless of their gender. That is, pansexuals are attracted primarily to a person’s personality, and not to their gender.

Another name is narcissism. Strictly speaking, this is one of the varieties of fetishism, in which the person’s own body is the fetish. In general, an autosexual is attracted to only one person - himself. Sexual satisfaction with narcissism is achieved by contemplating one’s own naked body, its mirror image or its individual parts.