Asexual Masturbation To Imagery

Being asexual does not dictate practically anything other than that someone does not experience sexual attraction to other people.  An asexual might still enjoy having sex with a partner, and he or she may even crave it for its physical and emotional pleasures.  An asexual may still masturbate, and perhaps masturbate frequently, in some cases to sensual images or videos [1] of the opposite gender that they find arousing.  What might be more surprising to some non-asexuals is that an asexual might find specific members of the opposite gender sexy--in a sense.

Asexuals can still think of certain people of the opposite gender as "sexy" (which is different from perceiving someone to merely be physically attractive) in that they can grasp why someone of their own gender would specifically be attracted to or aroused by some of the opposite gender.  A person can recognize the potential features for which someone of the opposite gender might be sexually attractive to other members of the former's own gender without having to be told about why the former would be attracted to the latter in an explicitly sexual way.  This is not the same as personally experiencing sexual attraction to someone of the opposite gender, but it is an indirect way of perceiving them to be sexy.

Lacking the emotion of sexual attraction to others does not mean that a person cannot at least partly relate to why people might call each other sexy, nor does a lack of sexual attraction mean that there are not certain people of the opposite gender who either can easily trigger physiological arousal of an asexual's genitals or can be pleasantly masturbated to.  Indeed, an asexual can find someone of the opposite gender sensual enough to personally masturbate to them in addition to seeing why others might consider them sexy.  As with a non-asexual, preferred physical or personality traits might be the criteria for enjoying masturbating to select persons of the opposite gender.

Masturbation may be a celebrated part of an asexual's life, even if the self-pleasuring is unconnected to any use of erotic media or fantasies about members of the opposite gender.  Asexuals may nevertheless specifically enjoy masturbating to a sensual picture or mental image of specific individuals of the opposite gender, whether or not the physical or mental imagery is actually sexual in nature.  This may be a favored means of sexual expression by an asexual, for asexuality, as aforementioned, does not prevent someone from carrying out or delighting in certain sexual behaviors.

All rational people could hypothetically prove at least some of these facts to themselves a priori, but, as someone who has been asexual for part of my life, I am familiar with some of these facts due to experience as well!  Direct experience does not grant someone access to special knowledge about the nature of sexuality that is unavailable to others, yet it can affirm logical facts that might otherwise be left outside of one's focus.  Asexuality, like other matters related to sexuality, can be still be analyzed introspectively as well as logically.


[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2020/01/masturbating-to-erotic-imagery-part-4.html