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For Chen, being autosexual is an enjoyable experience, rather than a problem to be solved. “In a relationship with, say, another person, there would be a lot of flaws, mistakes, adjustments, sacrifices,” he explains. “Why go through that? I know how I want to be loved and treated. So, who better to love me than me? It's almost perfect.”

Overall, though, it sounds as though you either lack confidence or experience, or you're riding on very busy roads. It might help to browse the safety tag here for other answers.

You could easily modify one of those, or build your own. I believe they're legal, at least in Australia (where I live) but I suspect that no-one would pull you over if it's not (except in NSW, where I live, for reasons to stupid to go in to).

You also may want to talk to autosexual people and see if their experiences are similar to your own, Nassour adds. You might be able to find them on forums for asexual people, such as the Asexual Visibility and Education Network or the asexual community on Tumblr.

Another sign that you could be autosexual is that you have difficulty getting turned on with another person, but have no trouble when you masturbate, says Nabil—though, of course, this can occur for other reasons. However, many autosexual people can still get turned on with partners, sometimes by engaging in self-focused fantasies during partnered sex. They may also become aroused by a partner describing how much they want them or how attractive they find them.

When Span Chen, 34, was in college, he noticed he didn’t enjoy sex with his girlfriends as much as he enjoyed masturbating. “They just didn’t make me feel like I did,” the China-based entrepreneur who runs the Karate Blog remembers.

If you’re wondering if you’re autosexual, a good place to start is to ask yourself who you feel attracted to, and how often, Nassour says. In addition, you can reflect on your sexual fantasies and ask yourself: “Are they more fulfilling when they involve other people, or not? Do you get more fulfillment out of sexual activity alone than when a partner?”

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“I may love how I make myself feel, but that doesn't mean that I don't need or appreciate my partner,” Chen says. “During our sexual activities, I let her do what she can for a bit, then I take over and touch myself, just to keep me in the mood. It's a very good method because I get to be actively involved with my partner and myself without making her feel like she's not doing enough or make her feel bad.”

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“The partner of an autosexual person may get frustrated or jealous because their partner receives great pleasure from their own self and body,” Phillips says. However, just because someone is autosexual doesn’t mean they won’t enjoy pleasing or being pleased by a partner. In fact, an autosexual person may inspire their partner to engage in self-pleasure and become more in touch with their own body, Howard says.

Of course that already exists (safety/flash flags), although is not very common. But the "mind storming" was still nice.

“While this person still might enjoy sex with others, they rarely if ever feel sexually attracted to others,” says sex therapist Shamyra Howard, a member of the Men’s Health advisory panel. However, this doesn’t mean that they can’t have great sex. “While there might be challenges, people who are autosexual still enjoy partnered sex,” Howard adds.

Some people assume that autosexual people simply cannot find partners or have trouble with intimacy, but in reality, the preference for solo activity can be a genuine and healthy desire. “A major misconception about autosexuality has to do with someone not feeling loved or accepted by others, so they reject love and choose themselves,” says Kuhn. “While this may be an experience that some people have chosen, it is not true for all or likely the majority of people who identify [as autosexual] or enjoy autosexual behaviors.”

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Some autosexual people consider themselves to be on the asexual spectrum, since they may not feel highly attracted to other people, Nassour says. “Some autosexual people don't feel attracted to others at all, while others may be attracted to others only rarely.”

Going straight from the right turn lane is a bad idea, and very few legal systems allow it. Partly because it's suicidal, and partly because it's stupid. Either way, the legal authorities have to clean up the mess. So you should, and almost certainly are legally required to, enter the "straight ahead" lane in that situation.

A idea that I had is a simple semi-flexible foldable pole on the left side of the bicycle that I could put on those situations, so it would "force" drivers to pass with a larger distance. Of course it would have some kind of reflective flag or, even better, a strong LED (as the flag would offer more wind resistance, and the LED would show up better at night), and it would have to be flexible enough for not knocking me over when someone hits it.

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Autosexuality is considered an orientation, rather than a psychological disorder such as narcissism, adds psychotherapist and sex therapist Lee Phillips. “People often assume that autosexual people must be narcissistic—this is not true,” he explains. “Autosexual people can have empathy and validate and care about the well-being of others.”

Autosexual people tend to prefer masturbation over partnered sex, although they may engage in partnered sex either to show affection, to feel close with their partners, or because they get pleasure out of it—just generally not as much as solo sex, says Lori Beth Bisbey, a psychologist specializing in gender and sexuality.

Wherever you are on the autosexual spectrum, it’s completely normal to have a sexual relationship with yourself even when you’re in a relationship, and being open about this with a partner can help you feel closer to them. “When people enter into a partnership or partnerships, sometimes the topic of masturbation or solo sex is never talked about,” says psychotherapist, sex therapist, and sex educator Roger Kuhn. “It can become a secretive behavior which may impact the sexual dynamics of the relationship. Masturbation and solo sexual experiences do not have to be secretive or taboo discussions in a relationship.”

I typed a rough description into the google and got some examples of reflectors on poles like the light you're thinking about.

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Autosexuality itself can also be thought of as a spectrum, with many people, to some extent, getting turned on by themselves. Research by Kinsey Institute fellow Justin Lehmiller found that 97% of people were in their own fantasies at least some of the time.

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It wasn’t just that Chen knew how to make himself feel good; he also found he was attracted to his own body. “I'd go to the toilet sometimes to take a look in the mirror and just get so turned by how handsome and sexy I was,” he says. After doing some online research, he learned about autosexuality: a sexual orientation where someone feels more attracted to themselves than others.

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“Ultimately, you are the only person who gets to decide your identity,” she says. “If ‘autosexual’ feels best and helps you understand yourself better, use it. You can also combine it with other identity words. You are allowed to be complicated.”

There are also many people who enjoy masturbation over partnered sex without being autosexual; these people may simply know how to please themselves better than anyone else can. “For some, this can cause occasional issues in relationships due to training the body to only respond to certain stimuli such as their own touch or the feel of a sex toy,” Howard says, while for others, it isn’t a problem.

A problem that I'm always confronted when cycling, especially in steep climbs where there is no or insufficient roadside, are cars passing too closely. Usually I would position myself more close to the middle of the lane, but the speed incompatibility it's just too large and drivers aren't very educated where I live.

Autosexual people may, like Chen, feel turned on by looking at themselves or star in their own sexual fantasies, Bisbey says. For instance, they may fantasize about stripping in front of a crowd and being admired. Autosexual people may not even have fantasies that involve other people, says licensed professional counselor Kara Nassour.

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Note that the problem you're trying to overcome is not drivers who are actually blind, but inattentional blindness. The photons are reaching their eyes, but their brain is filtering out all the distracting irrelevancies so they can actually operate their vehicle.At best cyclists fall into the "why would I look for a cyclist, there are no cyclists here" subconscious category of "things not to bother looking for". The way round that is to have so many cyclists on all the roads that motorists know they're always there and consequently look out for them.

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Just because someone is autosexual doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy a variety of sexual activities. An autosexual person might enjoy experimenting with different sex toys or looking at porn where people masturbate, or perhaps even how-to masturbation videos, Kuhn says. Someone can also incorporate autosexual desires into partnered sex by masturbating in front of a partner (perhaps while the partner is touching themselves as well), recording themselves having sex, or having sex in front of a mirror.

My question is the following: Will it be useful, and will it be safe? Is there any other option? The idea is to retract (fold) it always when not using, and not to use it when cycling in group, so it wouldn't bother other cyclists. And is worthy to mention that the roads I ride have a 50 mph limit (although speeds up to 60 mph are common).

Another problem that I face sometimes is when I'm cycling on the roadside but then there is a new lane that turns to the right. My options are keep going on the roadside (and later on the new lane), but it would make the drivers turn abruptly in front of me (or over me), as they might think that I will turn too (and that is a reasonable idea). My second option is to enter the right (now middle) lane, but the speed mismatch (and the need to position myself close to the middle of the lane) doesn't allows it. The flag would make the second option easier, and it would tell drivers that I'm not going right. For illustration: