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I am Sherlocked

I don't know if this thread as been done before, please forgive me if it has. But I wanted and felt the need to make this thread happen because I've been noticing a few characters that read as asexual to me even if the directors/writers state that said character is not because they think the label is weird or something.

1. Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang Theory

2. Sherlock Holmes (BBC America) - Sherlock

3. The Doctor -- Doctor Who

4. Dexter Morgan - Dexter

5. Castiel -- Supernatural

( This can be seen differently by different people depending on whose looking at it. It could be read that he has romantic feelings towards Dean or not. But we all that have watched the show notice that all angels are different. Gabriel is obviously a sexual being as well as Balthazar. )

6. Amy Farrah Fowler -- Big Bang Theory

Any other characters in your opinions that should be added and why? : D

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Dexter Morgan I wouldn't classify as asexual. He's a psychopath he just doesn't feel human emotion. It's not really a matter of sexuality is it?

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poindexter

I don't think Dexter is asexual... He probably started out that way, but he hasn't been for a long time, probably since he spoke to the therapist in Season 1. It makes me mad, I've not liked either of his love interests since Rita died, it feels kind of OOC for him :(

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I don't agree that the Doctor is asexual, since he has grandchildren. Maybe just no sexual interest in another species? Although he certainly kisses enough of them...

And I haven't seen all of BBT, but what I have seen implies Amy is fairly sexual, just probably a virgin/never had the opportunity. That's what I got from the implications of the electric tooth brush episode anyway. I could be wrong.

Tori Beaugrand is for sure though <3 (Quicksilver)

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Dexter Morgan I wouldn't classify as asexual. He's a psychopath he just doesn't feel human emotion. It's not really a matter of sexuality is it?

He isn't a psychopath, he's a highly well put together sociopath. I think he could be classified as an asexual at one point of his life but the writers decided to change who he was and try to make him more human. I agree with poindexter when it comes to Dexter's character, he started out that way and changed.

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I don't agree that the Doctor is asexual, since he has grandchildren. Maybe just no sexual interest in another species? Although he certainly kisses enough of them...

And I haven't seen all of BBT, but what I have seen implies Amy is fairly sexual, just probably a virgin/never had the opportunity. That's what I got from the implications of the electric tooth brush episode anyway. I could be wrong.

Tori Beaugrand is for sure though <3 (Quicksilver)

I haven't really watched that much of the show, so I didn't know he had grandchildren. I'm barely on season 2 of the series, so in my mind he is asexual at the moment. You can be asexual and sex and children. I don't know why some people think you can't. But anyways. interesting.

I have seen a few episodes with amy and I didn't see the ones that implied a sexual nature, she must just have a very low libido.

Who is Tori Beaugrand? : O

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So have any of the writers actually confirmed these characters are asexual?

Because the only people who can judge the unspoken sexuality of a character is the writers. We can't just each others identity, what makes it ok to judge a fictional characters? It's the same principle.

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So have any of the writers actually confirmed these characters are asexual?

Because the only people who can judge the unspoken sexuality of a character is the writers. We can't just each others identity, what makes it ok to judge a fictional characters? It's the same principle.

I know a couple of writers were questioned, manly the writers of Big Bang theory about Sheldon and Moffat about Sherlock.

They both claimed that neither character was asexual but didn't really list a reason why or how despite some of the evidence given in the shows and what the audience sees.

The rest on the list is just what I see, for all intents and purposes, I'm not judging, I wouldn't really care or like a character anymore or less whoever they're attracted to. : D

Also, this is kind of sad: http://www.asexualnews.com/index.php/entertainment/973-steven-moffat-says-sherlock-is-not-asexual

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Haha, I just typed a long rant on BBT and how each of the guy character's had a problem with relationships and got it fixed. Then I closed the window and lost it before I posted it. I'm such a goof :) Anyway, I really don't want to retype it so I'll get right to the meat of it. When Sheldon first got pushed into meeting Amy she said to him, "You should know that all forms of physical contact up to and including coitus are off the table.". His response was, "Can I buy you a beverage?". Clearly, even though the writers will not admit it, he is heteroromantic asexual. Now she keeps pushing a physical element be added to the relationship and he keeps deflecting it. It doesn't even occur to him because he doesn't have a desire to be sexual. This means a lot to me because it's my story. And I was told to get over it and be normal by all the people around me. This led to years(40 or so) of being unhappy and uncomfortable. And just not fair to the women who I hurt because I couldn't give them the intimacy that they wanted. So, if they "fix" Sheldon a big opportunity will be lost to help people like me before they make the same mistakes I did. I am normal and don't need to be fixed. And neither does Sheldon. I didn't have anyone in the 70's to explain to me that I was normal. Thanks to David Jay/AVEN and YouTubers like swankivy my eyes are opened and I'm so very happy for the first time in my life. Man, if only I had them around when I was a teen. So, when people ask me if you don't want a sexual relationship why do you need to organize? Why not, just not be with anybody and keep your mouth shut. I say, because we need to help all those people like me that don't understand why they feel the way they do and that it's alright to be who you are. Okay, rant over. Thanks for letting me get that out. And I leave you with this. If they had fixed the Will character in Will & Grace in the end what kind of response would we have seen from the Gay community?

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MissUnderstood

It's weird that I had always been in love with Sheldon and Sherlock before I knew I was ace and I guess now I know why :P I was like "O.O they seem so perfect"

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Silvernight

I've only watched 10th and 11th Doctor Who series. 10th maybe not so much, but 11th Doctor definitely seems to be asexual. Even Matt Smith thinks so. In fact, he called the Doctor asexual: http://www.kasterborous.com/2011/07/smith-doctor-prefers-chess-to-sex/

It's also quite obvious the way he squirms and actively avoids any such intimacy whenever an attractive woman tries to kiss him (Amy, Nefertiti come to mind).

Even though 11th Doctor is technically married to River, it doesn't seem that there is much going on there in terms of sex, they're more like a queerplatonic couple.

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This might be the wrong place to ask this, but I have a question about Sherlock Holmes.

I think he is asexual, mostly because of the quote from A Scandal in Bohemia:

"He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of "the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the "trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results."

And I could have sworn I read a quote from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saying that Sherlock is a calculating machine and love would never have occurred to him - but I can't find it.

Edit: I found the quote on Wikipedia, but I'm nearly positive I read it in an intro to a book: "Holmes is as inhuman as a Babbage's calculating machine and just about as likely to fall in love". Apparently he said this to Joesph Bell.

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I really think Holmes is asexual, whether or (as is more likely) not Conan Doyle intended this. I am a massive fan of the books and have read the canon through several times, and in fact before I realised I was asexual I felt I sympathised with Holmes on these issues quite a lot and it was actually in a conversation about him when I first heard the term "asexual" used, to relate to him, and realised that was me. So Holmes was what started the whole thing off, actually!

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In BBT Amy isn't asexual....she was continually trying to have sex with Sheldon

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Spock, perhaps? I'm not a really huge Star Trek fan but in the original series he seemed asexual. Of course in the new movie he has a relationship with Uhura so... :/

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Rorschach from Watchmen is something like an Asexual... although perhaps he is more of an anti-sexual... or both, hard to say. Basically, Rorschach is filled with hatred for everything he considers "immoral", in his radical Black-&-White worldview... and sexuality seems to be on that list. His mother was a prostitute, which may have contributed to his attitude.

So yeah, not exatly a "healthy, happy Asexual", but he deserves to be mentioned.

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Light Yagami from Death Note. He pretends to read porn and has had fake girlfriends, but doesn't show any sexual attraction at all. And from the same series, L, and possibly Near and Mello.

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Whenever I see Irene near Sherlock, all I can think is "No, he is not for you!"

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The main character of this anime called Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou (InuHasami for short) seems pretty ace to me. He is a colossal bookworm, and in the first episode, he explicitly said that he 'only gets off to erotic books', and not to any actual people. I could see that as being ace-like.

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Natsume Takashi from Natsume Yuujinshou. He comes across as an aromantic or homoromantic asexual, especially in the Manga.

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Astrochelonian

Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation

(in fact, most robotic / android characters, aside from WALL-E)

Aziraphile & Crowley (an Angel & Demon, respectively) from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Gandalf - Lord of the Rings

Sazed from the Mistborn series (he is HeteroRomantic, but a eunich)

Charlie Weasley from the Harry Potter Series (not mentioned directly in the books, but JK Rowling has said that Charlie never married or had children, as he was more interested in studying dragons than forming a romantic attachment).

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Westley from Princess Bride.

In my edition of the book (not the movie), William Goldman included an abridged version of Buttercup's Baby, which is kind of like a little conclusion of what happened to Buttercup, Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik. So there's this point where Buttercup, though quite clueless herself, was hanging out with Westley and is like, "Um, we love each other, but all we've done is kiss." And Westley's like, "What else is there?"

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i watched order of the phoenix yesterday night and I thought that Loony Lovegood (who is my favorite character!!) definitely could be an asexual even though she officially marries Newt Scamander's grandson or something loony like that (I was disappointed that they didn't follow up on her relationship with Longbottom though!!)

But yeah I identify a lot with Lovegood as a character except I feel like if I was a Hogwarts student I would be a Hufflepuff.

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Westley from Princess Bride.

In my edition of the book (not the movie), William Goldman included an abridged version of Buttercup's Baby, which is kind of like a little conclusion of what happened to Buttercup, Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik. So there's this point where Buttercup, though quite clueless herself, was hanging out with Westley and is like, "Um, we love each other, but all we've done is kiss." And Westley's like, "What else is there?"

Oh my God, I forgot about that! I need to re-read The Princess Bride. ^_^

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I always assumed Sherlock Holmes is asexual...aromantic at the very least. Even when he performs an act of chivalry, it's an afterthought, or a nod to social convention, and sometimes an investigative tool.

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best_plant_mom

Ned the pie maker from Pushing Daisies. Even though he can't touch his girlfriend he doesn't really show any interest in sex.

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Going by current happenings in TBBT, it looks like Sheldon might be more demi than classically ace. But definitely somewhere under the ace umbrella.

Also, possibly: Elsa from Frozen.

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It's been confirmed by the creator that Luffy from One Piece isn't interested in romance or sex, "his only love is adventure". No way does Oda know about asexuality, but the description totally fits.

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