What is it like to be asexual?
Well, this was a nice surprise to see featured on the BBC homepage.
Asexuality has been the subject of very few scientific studies which has led to speculation about why some people feel no sexual attraction.
“There are people who definitely view it as a disorder and are like ‘oh if we give you these pills we can fix it’. Or people who ask you ‘have you had your hormones checked’, as though that’s the obvious solution,” says Jenni.
“And then you get people who go one step worse, and I have been asked before if I had been molested as a child, which is not an appropriate question to ask somebody to be honest, and also I haven’t been. It was the assumption that ‘hey you have something wrong with you, clearly you were molested as a child’ is just such a terrible attitude to have.”
Damn…. I got that exact same reaction, the ‘were you molested?’ one, and I just… figured it was a sort of one-off. ._. Huh.
