This troper can't believe this page hasn't been started yet! She waffles between this and wondering if she's just plain {{Asexual}}. She's figured out that she ''does'' enjoy kissing, provided she's strongly attracted to the guy; the physical sensation is less interesting than the emotional side of things, and the thought of even a short kiss with someone who's not her boyfriend, regardless of talent, makes her rather ill. Since she's waiting for marriage, she figures she'll sort this whole Prude VS Asexual thing out on her wedding night (and, should she discover sex isn't half the fun society makes it out to be - the whole affair sounds rather messy and disgusting to her - she figures she'll just do it to make her husband happy, the way some girls will watch football even though it bores them).

Are you me? A future me who has somehow managed to fall in love and have a first kiss? If so, please tell me how you did it.

Not quite sure, actually. We started as JustFriends and just sorta started dating after a while; the kissing thing was totally his idea.

*sighs wistfully*

Averted hard (heh) with this female troper...despite being a relatively introverted nerd, when properly motivated she's been known to surprise guys with this information (only in a consensual/fun way; I don't care what the situation is, rape is never okay).

This troper behaved this way for so long that she thought she might be asexual. In truth, she was just terrified of sex because she couldn't wrap her head around the idea of trusting someone that much. If she'd never met the man she eventually married, she would probably still be a virgin -- and she's in her mid-thirties. He's the ''only'' one she's ever been comfortable with.

It's the same with this troper, except she's not sure she's ever going to find someone she can trust.

I have known some women like this. It's usually a matter of them not feeling comfortable with someone and not any odd reason. It's almost guaranteed that someone is just not used to physical attraction or is depressed and lonely than actually Asexual though, so the above tropers shant have to worry.

So it's better to be depressed and lonely than {{Asexual}}? Thanks.

What do you call prudishness to the point you dislike any and all instances of other women being scantily clad? I'm not full-on disgusted by kissing and romance, and I'm not even against sex (after a committed marriage done for love, at least), I just don't like seeing other women flaunt their sexuality.

Anti-exhibitionist?

Anti-exhibitionist!

Jealousy? Low self-confidence?

This was the case for this troper until I quit taking the pill (don't worry, I have a diaphragm now instead.)

This Troper used to be pretty prude, but that's partially because I went to a Catholic school for my elementary years and never questioned a thing the church told me, and partially because I didn't have a sex drive for the longest time. I even wondered if I may be asexual. Then when I was thirteen, I noticed how sexy Fez on That70sShow was... I think about sex every day now and I'm no longer uncomfortable with nudity.

I knew a guy who, as a young, super fit, new-minted Marine used to walk up to women on the street, exchange names, words and/or cigarette lights, then ask, "Do you want to fuck?" When I asked how this went, he replied, "I got slapped a lot. I also got laid a lot." Of course, had he been a regular, unattractive schlub, he'd have just gotten slapped a lot and possibly arrested a little... The lesson here is that even the most attractive men have unpromising results with a straightforward approach.

This (male) Troper's sister plays this trope straight as can be. She has said many times (and has the sincere facial expressions to support) that the idea of sex grosses her out. She's basically the Prudish Victorian view of sex: only when you have children, then stop it forever. Before anyone asks, we were raised Protestant.

ZigZagged a bit for me. I'm asexual, but I make dirty jokes like the horniest teenagers. Somewhat inverted in that my boyfriend told me, after I came out as asexual to him, that he "never *planned* on having sex with you anyway". I'm not totally sure where I fall within the trope, but let me just get up on this here soapbox and say that Prudishness does not mean that someone is asexual, and an asexual is not necessarily prudish".

This was the case for me until I quit taking antidepressants. Not that you should quit without your doctor's advice, of course! Just saying.

In my school, there was a social studies project, the only all-girl unit was based on teens and couples. The project was actually informative, and well studied. However, it became obvious where it was headed after the mention that men take advantage of a girl and that '''ALL''' reports of sexual abuse and rape are performed by men. It was clear that women loved it, and men hated it. Then again, the sex-ed classes at my school teaching different ways had something to do with it.

Joan Sewell is the patron saint of this trope. Seriously, she wrote a whole book not only discussing her own low libido, which is all very well, but claiming the overwhelming majority of women feel the same: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/02/not-tonight-dear/5643/

...dude, I just read that, and as a girl with a perfectly functional sex drive, words can not describe how much this enrages me.

for some reason this trope absolutely infuriates this (female) troper especially when said women "love to flirt" but abhor anything beyond that, it helps when most women I know who exemplify this trope tend to be gold digging self absorbed vaccous airheads as well "OMG I have a boyfriend and the other day I let him HOLD MY HAND and *shock scandal* even KISS me cause I'm so naughty! *giggle* I hope soon he marries me so he can take care of me and give me money and maybe even a baby to play with" is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me

This male troper was a rare SpearCounterpart to this trope. Not so much these days.

This tropette plays this trope fairly straight, or is just flat-out asexual. Intense romantic scenes can easily be a source of {{Squick}} for me, but again, it's fairly justified since I seem not to have much of a sex-drive at all. That's not to say that SexIsEvil...I could care less about it, that's all.

Subverted with this tropette, who has a libido, but is Asexual and therefore prefers not to have sex. (switching to first person) I would MUCH rather see two sexy males making out or going further.

Are you me?

Subverted with this tropette. I have a healthy attitude to sex.

So does this tropette. All, I repeat, ALL my friends either wear purity rings or refuse to talk about sex or men. It's actually quite frustrating for someone who's very in tune with her sexuality.

This. <3 This female troper finds sexuality to be one of the most interesting topics in the world and has no shame in discussing it.