gurotrash
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In order as the thread goes, and this is likely to be a very involved response, so forgive if I don't target someone's post directly in the event that it was guided towards me and seemed to be generally covered by a response to another:
For those who don't have primary partners, it becomes a bit of a grey area, I suppose as for sexuality in general. I tend to use the rule of thumb and go by whatever an individual's identity is, but it certainly wouldn't be out of the question for one to consider traditionally non-sexual individuals as asexuals, though it's also within reason to see that kink is, in and of itself, a sexuality, which is the interest that sparked my starting the thread.
Agh, yes, I think I was a bit overzealous in attempting to be specific. Too far into academic terms, nowhere near far enough into any level of common understanding. But, yes, I do believe that aspect is correct. The line between what is considered sexuality and what is considered kink or fetishism is what I'm looking for in this discussion. It's specifically the degree to which the D/s arena can be considered non-sexual that I'm seeking, and I'm already getting a good continuum from this first page of responses. Many thanks for the input provided thus far. =)
Well said, in various posts, on the variance of human sexuality! I tend to describe it as the "wibbly wobbly ball," in some words. We find new words to describe degrees of sexuality as they are embraced and discovered, not the other way around, and I'd wager that a new academic paradigm is on the verge of birth. Wonderful inputs on this front from every response! Fluidity, ambiguity, and a touch of incomprehensibility, even, are what I find to be ideals in an approach to examining sexuality, and these posts do very well in reflecting that in words that I was unable to grasp. Again, many thanks!
Likewise, well met in use of terminology in some of the other posts, particularly regarding gender and romantic alignments outside of sexuality, as well as clarification. It seems this thread has attracted a grand crowd. I've learned a few things from everyone's posts, as well, and I realize that I keep adding them, but thanks are due where they are due, so again, many thanks! And it looks like a few have even resonated with the terms applied throughout the thread, and I'm very glad that this has become a vein of education, of sorts.
Aaaaah, the mental exercises that have been proposed have been beautiful! It's been such a pleasure to read through them!
For a brief bit of my own input on the recently regarded issues, though I've just been over the whole of it and presently don't have specific responses, I believe that the fluidity of sexuality and the interaction and potential disconnect with other notions of feelings, e.g. romanticism, fetishism, and kink, are relevant at this point in the conversation. I think that it's likely prudent to mention poly-oriented individuals at this point, as well, as there is a solid community of those who find that their various needs are best met by various individuals as opposed to a single person. A platonic front for one, a sexual for another, a romantic for another, and an ambiguously non-sexual front (kink- or intellectual-based, for sake of conversation in this context) in another, for a hypothetical example. Though it's uncommon, some individuals identify sexually towards one gender and romantically towards another, even. Humans are very complex, it seems, but that's what makes this sort of discourse all the more compelling. =D
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Greta girl you are so funny! 
(Do we really need a separate "slave" category, after all? It's fairly meaningless as a distinction here the way this term gets used by most.) 
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