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People can kiss their love interest without wanting to have sex with them. Every sensual act does not have to have a sexual meaning. Healthy relationships can exist without mutual sexual desire. Sex is saturated with far more social meaning than it deserves.
A reminder to stop infantilizing asexual and aromantic people. We aren't asexual and/or aromantic because of "immaturity."
A reminder that those of us who are uninterested in sex and/or romance are not "stunted," "underdeveloped," or "incomplete."
Sexual and romantic attraction happen to be common ways to express one's affection towards another, but they are not inherently "natural" in all humans.
Attraction can represent forms of feeling and being which may, at times, be difficult to comprehend and express. What is attraction?
Vol. 2, Issue 4 is OUT now, including 26 pieces by ace and aro authors. Attraction can represent forms of feeling and being which may be difficult to comprehend and express. What is attraction? What does it mean to be attracted to someone?
Those feelings are hard to verbalize. It sounds like I’m offering them friendship when it’s much more than that. How do I explain that the “connection” they conceptualize as friendship represents a lot more to me? What does “more” mean to an asexual, anyway? I don’t know. So, for now, I’m stuck between friend and friendlier.
Verbalizing Attraction by Deepa Prasad
The Asexual is releasing a full journal issue of pieces by agender writers on November 15th who analyze their lives in relation to the social construction of gender in personal essays, poetry, and abstract writings.
If gender was seen as more fluid, less essential to who we are, maybe people would feel less obligated to conform to socially scripted performances. Maybe we could just be ourselves and feel good about it.
Thoughts on being a fem agender: And never feeling queer enough. by Shei (http://outer-space-unicorn.tumblr.com/)
So, when I told people that I was asexual, I wasn’t believed. My asexuality was seen as a cover up for being “prude,” “celibate,” or “inexperienced.” Whenever I mentioned how uncomfortable I felt talking about sexual acts in depth, or how I wasn’t interested in hooking up with anyone, I felt pushed aside and ignored...
Pride and Prejudice by Anna María Mengani
Physical transition is a matter, you consider, of receiving and removing. You are trying to lose the breasts. Maybe then, you think, you will achieve heaven. Maybe then, you will have run yourself free from wonderland.
The Skirt by C. Bougie
