Asexual
I’m a “Gray Asexual.” My Partner Isn’t.
I rarely feel sexual attraction or desire, so I can’t lean on sex to express my feelings. Here’s how we make it work.
What It’s Like To Be an Asexual Sex Worker
“People have monolithic views of sex workers which builds the perception that we’re horny 24/7 and always down to fuck. That’s far from true even for sex workers who aren’t asexual.”
Some Forests Are Covered With Lichens That Love to Fuck, Scientists Discover
“We have to assume there’s a lot of cryptic sex going on,” said a researcher about Québec’s reindeer lichen populations.
I Learnt How To Be an ‘Ethical Slut’ Through Polyamory
In a monogamy-obsessed culture where everything revolves around finding or pleasing “the one”, having multiple partners helped me focus on my own needs and happiness.
What it’s Like Identifying as Asexual on Valentine’s Day
A holiday all about romance, sex, and intimacy, we wanted to find out what Valentine’s Day is like for people who experience these things in more atypical ways.
What it’s Like Being Non-Binary in India, Where Everyone Uses Gendered Pronouns
“This one time, I was at a community event and someone kept referring to me as ‘she/her’. When I told them that this is not my pronoun, they told me, ‘You're too pretty to be a boy.’”
Are You Getting Any? What Being ‘Greysexual’ Means for My Sex Life
Rory identifies most closely as 'greysexual', meaning that they only experience sexual desire under very specific conditions.
Are You Getting Any? I Lost Interest in Sex Until I Started Dating Women
This 22-year-old went from being engaged to a man to feeling asexual, to finally finding happiness in being intimate with women.
We Asked Queer Indians How They First Learned About Sex
Porn, trial-and-error, Sidney Sheldon—LGBTQ+ youth tell us about their initiation into the world of sex and sexuality in a country where sex ed is either super-hetero or missing altogether.
How I Seek Out Intimacy as an Asexual Person
As a queer, asexual person I often felt like an outsider growing up. But now I've found my community of people like me, in a society that seems to revolve around sex.
We Asked Asexuals About Their Relationship to Pride
After some controversy over “ace” and “poly” inclusion, they told us what queer identity means to them.
10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask an Asexual Person
"I've even been told that the reason I don't have sex is because nobody wants to sleep with me."