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Autosexuality is sexual desire toward one's own body. As a paraphilia, autosexuality refers to people whose sexual interest is with themselves. It is rare for individuals to be sexually attracted only to themselves. It is also used to describe someone who desires masturbation over partnered sex.[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

An autosexual is also used as a term used in evolutionary or genetic programming to describe a one parent population that does a crossover with itself and then mutation to produce children.^[1]

Most asexuals are physically capable of sex. Some masturbate and some don't. The distinction between sexual and asexual people is that, if asexuals think about other people during masturbation (many asexuals don't think about anything specifically sexual) it is only as fantasy. If they actually were given the opportunity to be sexual with that person there would be no attraction, or the drive would be so low as to be completely ignorable. Some asexuals may be considered autosexual, they have the drive to take pleasure from their own body. Other masturbating asexuals do not have a sexual drive motivating them, they just do it because it is pleasurable. The common factor is that all asexuals, masturbating or not, have little or no attraction to other people. - Asexual Visibility and Education Network

Autosexual research

A book called "The Man Who Would Be Queen" by J. Michael Bailey who at the time was a chairman of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, made a claim that transsexual women are sexual paraphilic males who "change sex" for bizarre autosexual reasons. He was described as "authoring a book that pseudo-scientifically ridiculed and defamed their lives and identities". He was forced to resign from his post in December 19, 2004 due to a large number of complaints about his work. [2][3]

"Sex Reassignment of Adolescent Transsexuals: A Follow-up Study" written by Cohen-Kettenis PT, van Goozen SH. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rudolph Magnus Institute of Neurosciences. Dicusses the prevelance of FM transsexuals:

Several FMs mentioned that they found it difficult to live without a penis, especially at moments when they did not know their potential sexual partner very well. Autosexual behavior was not very frequent.

Mary Burleson[4] a member of the faculty of ASU has been researching the connections between the body and mind especially reproductive hormones in human behavior. She says that

Our preliminary analyses found that positive mood was related to sexual activity with another person, but unrelated to autosexual behavior. This result highlights the social, rather than purely sensory, aspects of sexuality

In another study [5] the "relationship between plasma testosterone (T) secretion and patterns of sexual behavior was examined in 18 women using oral contraceptives (OCs)"

However, OC users reported more satisfaction with their sexual partners than did nonusers and prospective monitoring revealed that they engaged in sexual interactions more frequently than did nonusers across the cycle. In contrast, both groups reported a similar frequency of autosexual activities across the cycle. There were no correlations between average levels of T and levels of sexual desire, sexual interactions, or autosexuality.

Other studies that cover autosexual behaviors are:

Ovulatory autosexual behavior Hill, e. m. 1988. The menstrual cycle and components of human female sexual behaviour. Journal of Social and Biological Structures 11:443–55

Harvey, s. m. 1987. Female sexual behavior: Fluctuations during the menstrual cycle. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 31:101–10.

Proliferative autosexual behavior and Premenstrual autosexual behavior Bancroft, j. , d. sanders, d. davidson, and p. warner. 1983. Mood, sexuality, hormones, and the menstrual cycle. 3. Sexuality and the role of androgens. Psychosomatic Medicine 45:509–16.

Autosexuals

In Greek mythology, Narcissus is sometimes considered an autosexual, although Pausanias' story points to him being incestuous. In Ovid's Metamorphoses poem he describes the Greek tale of Narcissus and the nymph Echo. Echo is in love with Narcissus but all Narcissus can see is his own "beautiful" reflection in the water. Narcissus would be considered a self-preference autosexual, as opposed to one who is autosexual due to a phobia or psychological trauma, if the variations together — rejecting both men and women, Echo and Ameinias respectively — were removed. The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the telling of stories created by the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ... Narcissus A Boeotian hero whose archaic myth was a cautionary tale warning boys against being cruel to their lovers. ... Pausanias (Greek: ) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now ConstanÅ£a AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ... // Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of Ovids Metamorphosis Englished The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms according to Greek and Roman points of view. ... In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of female nature entities, either bound to a particular location or landform or joining the retinue of a god or goddess. ... Echo and Narcissus, by John William Waterhouse. ... In Greek mythology, Narcissus or Narkissos (Greek Ναρκισσος), a hero of the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty and his pride. ...

Autosexuals in popular culture

• In an episode of the popular series Seinfeld ("The Puffy Shirt"), George Costanza is told about a hand model who had to stop his career because of his autosexuality, Ray McKigney. "He could have had any woman in the world, but none matched the beauty of his own hand".

• In the episode There's Something About Marrying of The Simpsons the gay marriage is legalized and Homer Simpson starts working as a minister to gain money. When looking in the mirror he imagines himself married to himself, with a lot of children that looks like him and even kisses himself.

• On the Sex Editorials website, the editors define "solosexual" as someone with an orientation towards autosexuality.

Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of nine seasons. ... The Puffy Shirt is the second episode of Seinfelds fifth season. ... Theres Something About Marrying is one of the most controversial episodes from the sixteenth season of The Simpsons. ... Simpsons redirects here. ...

Reference

1. ^ Card, S.W. (2003). Time Series Prediction by Genetic Programming with Relaxed Assumptions in Mathematica, 4. 

See also

• Autoeroticism
• Narcissism