I think it doesn't really correlate with asexuality in my experience. I'm an ace who gets turned on and reads porn and masturbates. But I don't get turned on from seeing someone attractive being naked or posing suggestively. There are specific actions/scenarios/ideas that turn me on. Like the idea/depiction of someone experiencing sexual pleasure. But I'm not attracted to the characters and don't feel anything sexual directed at them. The things that would turn most people on, like the idea of doing something sexual with someone they find attractive, simply does nothing for me. In my opinion, using this "groinal response" analogy for asexuality makes it sound more like: we're sexually attracted to people and react physically, but emotionally we don't want it or are repulsed by it. But for me, I don't react physically to the same things allos do. So I think it's a misleading analogy. December 14, 2023 at 11:25PM