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The Asexual’s Field Guide to The Sexual World

Sexual people.

They’re pretty much everywhere. Most of the characters we see in movies, most of our friends, most of the people that we’re in relationships with and most of our families care about sexuality a great deal. As asexual people many of us have no innate understanding of why the world spends so much time meditating on the nasty. To live in that world, it is important that we come to an understanding of how it operates. To navigate the sexual world, we have to map out the way that sex is thought about, and the reasons that sexual people consider it to be so important.

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Asexual Perspectives

Opening the door to self-discovery

By ~Acer~

As humans, we are in general a social species, programmed to support each other in family units and communities and it seems often mob rule dictates what is normal, expected or acceptable behaviour. Especially in a modern society where the media projects these ideas into every facet of our lives, we are now educated very early on as to how life apparently is. No matter what our true feelings inside, we may now attempt to adhere to the ‘rules’ that we have collectively set ourselves.

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Digest for 12th - 19th May 2025

World Watch:

Electric Lit highlights nine books that centre asexuality.

Debbie Urbanski's anthology Portalmania features short stories about asexual characters.

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