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spaceace0599

3 years ago

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

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chaoticbuttons

1 year ago

I'm currently reading Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut and wow I don't think it was intentional but some parts of it Really fucking resonate with me as an asexual

A page from a book that reads: People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people — as used to as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby trapped. I had a fairly funny idea. Someday all we neuters would come out of our closets and form a parade. I even decided what banner our front rank should carry, as wide as Fifth Avenue. A single word would be printed on it in letters four feet high: EGREGIOUS

Another page: Most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. It has a much more interesting story than that to tell. It means 'outside the herd'.
Imagine that – thousands of people, outside the herd.