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DGUtley
03-22-2021, 06:36 AM
The growing asexuality movement... (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/21/i-dont-want-sex-with-anyone-the-growing-asexuality-movement) Asexuality is becoming more common – but it still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning.

The asexuality movement is young and fast-growing, and it recently received a notable boost. Last September saw the release of Ace, a critically acclaimed book by asexual journalist Angela Chen (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/angela-chen). It illuminates the myriad shades of asexuality via a series of real-life profiles. “Instead of getting bogged down in definitions, people can read those stories and think: does that resonate with my experience?” says Chen, 29, who is based in Brooklyn. For too long such experiences have not been acknowledged: asexuality has sometimes been dubbed the “forgotten” or “invisible” orientation owing to its lack of public prominence. Until recently it was deemed a medical issue by the US’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – which added an exception in 2013 to state that asexuals do not have a desire disorder – and many continue to erroneously dismiss it as an affliction.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhix4nr_0g






https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/21/i-dont-want-sex-with-anyone-the-growing-asexuality-movement


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/life-without-sex-the-third-phase-of-the-asexuality-movement/254880/

midcan5
03-22-2021, 06:53 AM
Kinda funny but recently we were talking about some people we have known in life who appear asexual. I've known a few and they amaze me given my own feelings on topic.


While it is not PC most of the posters on this site will have a hard time with this topic. But for the thoughtful reader some info below.

'Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia - Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary'

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/

"Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes." Stephen Fry

Why I must come out....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCZCok_u37w

and Jazz another trans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA5n9YW4MVk


And

'For Harrison Massie, transitioning from female to male was never about trading one gender for another.'


https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-lgbt-harrison-idUKKCN1MJ17Y (https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/harrison-a-transgender-mans-journey'Stop)

DGUtley
03-22-2021, 07:03 AM
How did a thread about asexuality become about transphobia and homosexuality? As I understand it, asexuality is not related to either. So.... other than to troll my thread, why? To be clear, though, I have gay friends, family members and have represented a transitioning teen on a pro-bono basis for discrimination. (How's that for a conservative Catholic lawyer?)

It's the attempted hijacking of my thread that pisses me off.

Calypso Jones
03-22-2021, 08:10 AM
Sorry about the hijacking of your thread. That happens a lot. Being a mod, Can you split this topic up into one other on these transexuals?

Calypso Jones
03-22-2021, 08:14 AM
This asexual thing. This isn't about sex. this is about an inability to connect with other people. in any way.

hanger4
03-22-2021, 08:16 AM
How did a thread about asexuality become about transphobia and homosexuality? As I understand it, asexuality is not related to either. So.... other than to troll my thread, why? To be clear, though, I have gay friends, family members and have represented a transitioning teen on a pro-bono basis for discrimination. (How's that for a conservative Catholic lawyer?)

It's the attempted hijacking of my thread that pisses me off.

Not to worry DGUtley midcan5 will now run away and hide behind his "I don't have time to reply" bullshit, but he has time to post.

DGUtley
03-22-2021, 08:50 AM
This asexual thing. This isn't about sex. this is about an inability to connect with other people. in any way.

I've wondered that also.