Here where I live, it became such a fad a few years ago, to change your name to some fancy ancestor name, for the sole purpose of people wanting to rid themselves of their common names, to feel unique. A handful wanted common names, to make anonymity easier in these new times of the surveillance internet. (It's easier to protect ones privacy with a name that gives a million Google hits.) It got so bad, they had to start charging people money to get their names changed. Also, as long as women take the names of their husbands when they marry, there will always be a dilution back and forth of the "common name" gene pool with other names, I reckon. Two Jones' can be just as distantly related ...

Here where I live, it became such a fad a few years ago, to change your name to some fancy ancestor name, for the sole purpose of people wanting to rid themselves of their common names, to feel unique. A handful wanted common names, to make anonymity easier in these new times of the surveillance internet. (It's easier to protect ones privacy with a name that gives a million Google hits.) It got so bad, they had to start charging people money to get their names changed. Also, as long as women take the names of their husbands when they marry, there will always be a dilution back and forth of the "common name" gene pool with other names, I reckon. Two Jones' can be just as distantly related as a Jones and a "Von Hyphenated-Name" can be. What's in name? Sexual orientation? Dunno 'bout that.

As for the dead lay. *LOL* If a dead lay turns them off, then that's emotional. (disappointment, boredom) not an "orientation", I don't think. I'm sure they would like to do it, if it were more exciting. If someone IS a dead lay, that's lack of culture, imagination, experience, confidence or all round pazazz, I reckon. I don't think asexuality is about "technique". *LOL* If it's an orientation, then they can't be "turned into" an asexual by a dead lay or "cured" either, I assume. (Like with gays.) I never knew asexuality was an orientation. I just assumed it was a choice. A non-genetic response to something else. Would an asexual find both genders physically "disagreeable" or is it that ...

As for the dead lay. *LOL* If a dead lay turns them off, then that's emotional. (disappointment, boredom) not an "orientation", I don't think. I'm sure they would like to do it, if it were more exciting. If someone IS a dead lay, that's lack of culture, imagination, experience, confidence or all round pazazz, I reckon. I don't think asexuality is about "technique". *LOL* If it's an orientation, then they can't be "turned into" an asexual by a dead lay or "cured" either, I assume. (Like with gays.) I never knew asexuality was an orientation. I just assumed it was a choice. A non-genetic response to something else. Would an asexual find both genders physically "disagreeable" or is it that they just don't feel desire? Is it even a "sexual orientation" at all though, since they aren't sexually oriented towards anything at all?

Good points! I was thinking about it like a change in the drive to procreate. I don't know where sexual drive comes from. I think it is genetic at a foundation part of the chain. All animals AND plants strive to procreate. If there is a mutation or a switching off of this drive it could be significant to explain why species die out. Perhaps as a species stagnifies the sex drive gene turns off and the species numbers slowly decline over generations.
Perhaps it is just sensory overload. Our species base EVERYTHING on procreation. We are bombarded with sexual desire daily. Perhaps the asexual has somehow become desensitized and thus seeks no procreation activities. If one had this condition th...

Good points! I was thinking about it like a change in the drive to procreate. I don't know where sexual drive comes from. I think it is genetic at a foundation part of the chain. All animals AND plants strive to procreate. If there is a mutation or a switching off of this drive it could be significant to explain why species die out. Perhaps as a species stagnifies the sex drive gene turns off and the species numbers slowly decline over generations.
Perhaps it is just sensory overload. Our species base EVERYTHING on procreation. We are bombarded with sexual desire daily. Perhaps the asexual has somehow become desensitized and thus seeks no procreation activities. If one had this condition them might try to hide it by engaging in those activities but only to satisfy their appearance of 'normality'.
What concerns me, for our species, is that it is becoming so common it is being noticed. Perhaps this is beginning of the end of our species. If we don't kill ourselves off we could slowly unfuck ourselves from existence. {shudder} what a horrible way to die off!