I appreciate the intent, but yeah, when people who don’t know me at all/that well say I matter to them etc I tend to think “how could they when they don’t know me?” I’m not sure if that’s correct or not, but it is how I feel.
Hope you are doing well though, and no real harm done.
To answer the question in the brackets, it’s not about being attracted to sex itself or not, it’s about not being attracted to someone sexually (as in not finding a person sexually attractive). But sex can still be interesting and/or enjoyable to someone for various reasons besides being attracted to someone.
No, I corrected my post with more detail, hope you can see the edit.
Anyway, no people can be interested in sex for other reasons like enjoying the physical sensations etc, just because someone isn’t sexually attracted to someone doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in the act itself.
Asexuality is about not experiencing sexual attraction, not about being interested in sex or not.
Some asexuals are also not interested in sex: Sex Repulsed
Some don’t care: Sex indifferent
Some want it: Sex favourable
Of course, then there is the spectrum including Grey Aces: Sometimes feel sexual attraction under certain circumstances, and Demisexuals who are only sexually attracted when they have a strong emotional connection to someone.
There are other labels under the asexual-spectrum but those are the most well known.
I can’t help but feel that part of this is because to make a movie there’s a higher barrier to entry and so a lot of studios and big budget production companies keep doing the ‘safe’ thing and regurgitating already existing properties or keeping their storylines ‘safe’.
This happens in gaming too (especially with big budget franchises) but there are really great experiments and indies out there showing what can be done, which is less so in the movie and TV industry.
People don’t always want the same thing over and over again and if executives could ever learn this it would be amazing how much creativity there would be, but they don’t.