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[Rerun] Dr. Kirk Honda talks about asexuality. (Occasionally in this episode, I mistakenly conflate asexuality with no libido; someone who is asexual can have a libido and desire sex, but it's not directed anywhere.)


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Anonymous

I also said this on YT but also saying it here because the misunderstanding of asexuality in what I've listened to so far frustrates me a little. Afaik (I ID as ace and used to spend a lot of time in ace communities but not so much recently), the modern consensus among aces is that we don't experience sexual attraction (and some id as being on the "ace spectrum" if they very seldom experience sexual attraction). This was the case even in 2018 when this episode apparently was first released. The way you've dominantly described it in the first 15 minutes ("people who don't want to have sex") is inaccurate. I know you go on to say "aces may have sex for other reasons" but you're still implying that none of us intrinsically "want to" have sex which just isn't true. We can and often do still have internal motivation to have sex--i.e. libido. We just don't experience the "attraction to particular people" element of sexual orientation.

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Thank you for the feedback. Yes, Kirk was aware of this and had put a note about it in the description. "[Rerun] Dr. Kirk Honda talks about asexuality. (Occasionally in this episode, I mistakenly conflate asexuality with no libido; someone who is asexual can have a libido and desire sex, but it's not directed anywhere.)"