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secondlina β Sketchcomic - types of Attraction
Published: 2012-04-28 03:42:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 45564; Favourites: 464; Downloads: 499
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A comic about the different types of attraction one might feel. The descriptions were taken from a website about asexuality, I saw the link to that site floating around on tumblr and really wanted to add visuals to them.I think people who are not asexual feel these regularly too. Thereβs all kinds of attractions for all kinds of people. Enjoy.
EDIT : Description changed because the original made it seem unclear that the art was done by me.
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Oh my god this was SO helpful. And the art that goes along with it is super cute.
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This image was one of the first things that helped me piece together that I'm asexual.
Just... thank you.
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What happen if I have all of these (ｑΕ_Ε)
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Thank you so much for this very helpful picture! I use it all the time!
I think it'd be great if you can edit your deviantart name into the bottom right corner. I like to share this image a lot and it'd be great if they could find your page more easily if they just save it to their harddrive.
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I'm glad somebody used "attraction" instead of "sexuality". This case always confused lots of people. You've just made everything clear!
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I saw this on tumblr just now. Very cute and very educational. Well done!
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I like this very much. I personally hated refering to anything as my "sexual attraction" since I'm not interested in sex. But I do feel strong romantic attraction to people.
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Same! I'm more of a "sensual" person. I'd love to have a cuddle buddy, but sex is a nuisance.
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Someone linked me to this because I was saying how my attraction towards men isn't romantic or sexual in nature, but I still get star crushes (or maybe squishes, now that I think of it) and stuff. I think the term aesthetic attraction works quite well for my situation, thank you for explaining it
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No problem, glad it helps!
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This is so great bless you
Just a question, does kissing go under the sensual category?
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Yeah, and actually I wanted to thank you for doing this. Images are easier to spread in most social networks. I hope that will help people stop imagining sexual things between two when nothing like that is the matter...
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Squish looks kinda "sensual+friendship" to me from these description, but I guess there's difference. Like, you like to cuddle your best friend because it's your close person and it's a way to have fun and express friendship; but as for Sensual, it's just a desire to touch because I dunno which reasons.
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Squish? I thought it's called friendship or something.
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It's the really, really profound version of it.
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Profound version? Well, i'd say, it is a thing called "platonic love", if we speak of very close relationships that do not have sexual element in them.
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The terms were taken directly from a website about asexuality and not edited. If you don't like the term, you can take it up with them. I think it's cute.
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I have no idea how translate the said term so i'm searching for analogue.
I can't even pronounce it in my language.
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Well, I guess... Squish is kinda the sound that happens when you rub two soft surfaces together (like in a hug). So something akin to that?
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This is exactly the problem - i can't think of a separate sound effect for it.
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what language are you looking it for?
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Russian.
We have a buttload of sounds for falling but nearly next to zero when it comes about pressing things into each other.
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You could always use the word for hug.
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The bottom-right picture is too cute... I like this image a lot.
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I am going to be writing a paper on asexuality and the different types of attraction for my Sexual Orientation and the Law class. I was wondering if you would mind me including your lovely comic? I would fully attribute it to you, include a link to this page via footnote and be more than happy to share the finished paper with you at the end.
I have already used your comic to help explain the types of attraction to other people who look at me funny when I try to explain how an ace like myself can want to cuddle or hold hands with a person but still not be interested in sex. So thank you so much for sharing this lovely comic.
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As long as you credit me for it, of course! However, i'm warning you i'm not 100% happy with my definition of romantic love, I wish it was less vague. I'm planning to re-do this one day with better definitions, so feel free to suggest things. Till then, go forth and enjoy.
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Ah, I'm so happy I found this! I see this picture on Tumblr all the time but it never has a link to the original ;w; love it!
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oh mannn, I get such strong sensual attraction to people sometimes. Its just like COME HERE AND LET ME CUDDLE YOU. But then people think that means sex and im like LOL NO ASEXY HERE.
Love these illustrations! 
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Yup, I agreed. Not everything means sexytimes.
I'm "secondlina" on tumblr too. I'm basically "secondlina" all over the place.
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well.... this helps me understand a lot about people, such as friends family and my parents.
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As an asexual some of us experience no attraction of any sort what so ever and find it repulsive. However speaking for myself as an asexual I experience all three, but specifically the last one (benedict cumberbatch attraction HARDCORE!!) Nice portrayal of all six ^_^
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Yeah, there's a lot of different sorts, but also the possibly of someone feeling none of them.
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Aww this is sweet :3
Also, squishes and aesthetic attraction -- I'm learning! X3
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This scetches are SO cute and well-drawn <3
Aestetic attraction XD Oh goodness, do I feel that. For so many things XD
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Oh my God, it's Benny!
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