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feuervogel) wrote2020-10-25 06:54 pm
feuervogel) wrote2020-10-25 06:54 pm
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Day 25: Asexual awareness week
(I know what the icon says. I don't seem to have uploaded the "invisible queer" icon I had over on LJ.)
I'm asexual. Now you're aware.
It took a long time for me to accept and claim that label for myself. I've never found sex all that interesting; it was just What You Do. It took reading a lot of thirst posts on tumblr and people talking about how much they have sex and want to have sex that absolutely don't resonate with me. Plus a lot of memes about cake being better than sex, and, well, yeah. I'd rather have cake. Or brownies, or cookies, or whatever.
It's been 5 or 6 years I think since I accepted that fact. I can't say that this wasn't a factor in my divorce; mismatched sex drives can be a problem. There were several factors, of which this was a minor one.
My roller derby name, Hardace, is both an allusion to asexuality and a play on "hardass." I have pride stickers on my helmet. I'm not shy about it anymore, at least not in queer(-friendly) spaces.
I'm asexual. Now you're aware.
It took a long time for me to accept and claim that label for myself. I've never found sex all that interesting; it was just What You Do. It took reading a lot of thirst posts on tumblr and people talking about how much they have sex and want to have sex that absolutely don't resonate with me. Plus a lot of memes about cake being better than sex, and, well, yeah. I'd rather have cake. Or brownies, or cookies, or whatever.
It's been 5 or 6 years I think since I accepted that fact. I can't say that this wasn't a factor in my divorce; mismatched sex drives can be a problem. There were several factors, of which this was a minor one.
My roller derby name, Hardace, is both an allusion to asexuality and a play on "hardass." I have pride stickers on my helmet. I'm not shy about it anymore, at least not in queer(-friendly) spaces.