We explain what asexuality is and how this type of reproduction is carried out. Also, what characterizes a pansexual.
What is asexuality?
It is known as asexuality or as asexual character, to individuals who do not demonstrate interest some for sexual intercourse or reproduction, under any conditions.
The term comes from the biology, which distinguishes the living beings of sexual and asexual reproduction: the former require the collaboration of another living being of the same species but opposite gender; while the seconds can be divided on their own.
Thus, the expression asexual has been borrowed to indicate a conduct that seems to be uninterested in sexual union with other individuals, nor in their gender, nor of his species even. They are simply not interested in sex.
Asexuality has nothing to do with commitments of abstinence, such as the celibacy of the priests of certain religions, since these individuals feel sexual desire, but choose to suppress it or not satisfy it. Asexual people completely lack such a desire.
Similarly, asexuality should not be confused with homosexuality, bisexuality, or other gender identities or sexual orientations. Asexual people generally live their lives without any interest in sex or the erotic, and in fact in contemporary times they have organized themselves into collectivities such as the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN; Red de Visibilización y Educación de Asexuales) endowed with its own symbols, such as the flag of asexuality (horizontal stripes of equal size and in black, grey, white and purple).
Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction, as we explained before, is a term of biological use to refer to a way of generating new individuals of the species, from a single individual. It's a method employed by floors, bacteria and numerous primitive beings, whose weakness is to perpetuate the genetic load of the individual (gestation of clones) instead of varying it with that of another individual, as occurs in sexual reproduction.
The mitosis cell is a perfect example of this: a bacterium grows to the limit necessary to duplicate its structures genes and split in two, creating two new, identical bacteria. The human being, as will be seen, is incapable of such process, since his reproduction is of a sexual nature only.
pansexuality
It is understood by pansexual to people who are erotically or sexually attracted to other people regardless of their gender and/or sex. It should not be confused with bisexuality, which designates people with an erotic predilection marked by one gender, but not entirely exclusive.
Pansexuals constitute a difficult group to classify within the movements for sexual diversity, despite the fact that they have chosen their own identity symbols (the pansexual flag has three horizontal stripes of equal size: pink, yellow and blue). The gender ideology behind pansexuality aims to overcome the heterosexual-homosexual duality, and the free, autonomous manifestation of erotic desire without making such distinctions.