Asexuality, Grey Sexuality, and Narcissism
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2022-08-04

Hyposexuality or Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is a desire disorder in the DSM: no libido, little or no sex, and DISTRESS about it.

Libido: attraction, desire, action towards self or object.

Some asexuals are not attracted sexually to anyone, have no desire, and many of them are sexless, they don’t even masturbate. These asexuals have no libido.

Some asexuals masturbate. Others have periods of sexual activity. Some are repelled by sex. Asexuality is a spectrum.

The asexual orientation is lifelong or recurrent (intermittent). 

Grey sexuality is between asexuality and sexuality. Example: demisexuals.

Asexual+distress=hyposexual

Ridiculous to say that there are no asexual narcissists. 

All narcissists – somatic and cerebral – go through phases of asexuality in the wake of dysphoria (watch my video Narcissist’s 3 Depressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjZkrLE9mes). 

It is asexuality and not hyposexuality because the narcissist experiences no distress regarding his sexuality although he is depressed about deficient or absent narcissistic supply.  

Narcissistic supply and perceived success (self-supply) are aphrodisiacs. When they are deficient or absent in the collapse phase, the narcissist becomes dysphoric (watch my video titled “The Narcissist’s 3 depressions”).

Depression is closely correlated with hyposexuality (loss of libido, a transient subtype of asexuality). In this sense, all narcissists have gray sexuality and are on the a-spectrum (though, of course, not all asexuals are narcissists).

Normally, cerebral narcissists switch to somatic in order to restart the interrupted flow of supply. But when they have body image problems, this may take longer than normal.

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