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Asexuality: How to treat an Asexual: Or PSA on Asexuals When they tell to you do not say any of these:
- “You just haven’t found the right guy/girl yet!”
- “How do you know you don’t like sex?”
- “Is there something wrong with you?”
- “It must be so cool to be Asexual, you have it easy. Not having to think about sex”
These…
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Asexual Dating Site - AceBook I noticed some people said something about wanting an asexual dating site, which I remembered, it’s for some reason not that well known yet. So this is for everyone who didn’t realize this already existed! Go crazy! :)
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“He did not believe that sex was a prerequisite to the peace he had discovered as they lay together. Sex was just bodies. Peace was spirit.” — The Man Who Rained, by Ali Shaw (via idontbelieveinyourhate)(via asexualityexists)
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I made a thing
also, aces are not prudes.
demiromantics are not slut-shaming prudes
if you take my sexuality as a challenge, there is a 100% chance you won’t be getting the D
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Asexuality Exists: The Power of Words This post is for the February Carnival of Aces.
I’ve known since my late teens that I didn’t experience sexual attraction to anybody and wasn’t interested in sex. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll say this is since about 1990. However, at the time, I thought this was just…
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Asexuality (n) means what you want it to mean.
Sexuality is different for everyone. It’s a personal experience. Don’t police the sexuality of others. Mind your own fucking business.
That is all.
(via asexualityexists)
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“[T]he reporter from ABC poses a question similar to one often heard by people with disabilities: ‘If I had a pill that I could give you to make you sexual, would you want it?’ The question highlights the overwhelming desire to search for a cure, mirroring the typical approach to disability. The media purport to introduce asexual people’s perspectives, but often they search for ‘authoritative voices’ – medical and professional experts – to ‘help’ understand the narratives of asexual people, framing them as foreign to the audience.” — Eunjung Kim, Asexuality in Disability Narratives (2011) -
“ One jurisdiction has explicitly recognized asexuality in its law. New York’s Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA) defines “sexual orientation” as “heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality or asexuality, whether actual or perceived.” New York is the first, and so far the only, jurisdiction in the world to protect asexuality. The story behind this aspect of SONDA has not been written. Indeed, several of the key players in the legislation whom I consulted told me that I was the first person who had ever asked about asexuality’s presence in the law…
…That said, Assemblyman Sanders remarked that he never considered it “controversial” that some people are asexual. Sanders may also have been the one to have thought of including asexuality in the law. His recognition of asexuality as a category of sexual orientation is therefore notable. Even if the aim of including asexuals wasn’t to address any particular individual or movement, the possibility of protecting real people whose identity is asexual wasn’t outside the contemplation of at least one of the key players in the legislation. This is interesting in light of so many people’s skepticism at the very idea of asexuality, as discussed earlier.
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“And if asexuals are viewed as less human than other groups, as the recent data suggest, then this could affect employers’ expectations of performance or desire to interact with asexuals on the job. These kinds of fraught interactions are consistent with the reports by asexuals, discussed in Part II, of feeling repeatedly hurt and frustrated by the expectations of the sexual world, particularly when sexuals doubt the truth or legitimacy of asexuals’ identity.” — Elizabeth Emens, Compulsory Sexuality (2013), referencing Prejudice Against Group X (Asexuals) -
I cannot tell people I am asexual and a virgin, because I know that they well discount my opinion and give me the classic lines of “You don’t know what you are missing out on and hence you can’t not want it ” or “You haven’t met the right person”. I feel like shouting at them, saying that I have met the right person and fallen in love. But I know there is no point and that these people well never understand. This is why I wear an ace ring; so I can remind myself that I am stronger than them and their insults.
(via asexualityexists)
