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Asexuality and Christianity
In the great and protracted Are Asexuals Hurt Because They’re Asexual battle (a pretty straightforward if head-scratchingly inexplicable argument that even more inexplicably Just Keeps Going), the issue of asexuality in regards to various religious traditions is often excused by “well, celibacy is always seen as a Good Thing” and then swiftly brushed under the [...]
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There was a post written recently on an LGBT-focused blog called Good As Gay, found here, that argued against the inclusion of asexuality under the rainbow umbrella essentially on the grounds that asexuals aren’t discriminated against – basically, that we benefit from straight privilege because we aren’t actively, visibly not straight simply by virtue of [...]
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There’s a morning after pill called Plan B which recently ran a campaign urging distraught uterus-possessors in the wake of unprotected sex to “get a real plan.” Part of this was one commercial, accompanied by two visual ads appearing alongside video on YouTube, in which such a person pledged to be an “aexual, asocial, a-everything [...]
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S.E.X.
I went through a brief phase earlier this year (I believe it stretched from about early February to mid-May) wherein I was entirely obsessed with the whole of human sexuality, and thus I, like the good bookworm I am, checked out every relevant book from our local library and subsequently read all of them in [...]
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Asexuality and LGBT
I’m going to try to write this post (which is this week’s theme for HPOA) in under one thousand words, because, frankly, I am entirely too verbose and I doubt there’s much more I can add to this topic considering that … well, just considering. I’ll be frank – I think we should be included. [...]
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Visibility
This week’s Hot Pieces of Ace topic is visibility, which is pretty vague. But even so, I am all over this. You know, on second thought perhaps I should shy away from phrases commonly used by self-sure, often younger people, as I am neither of those things … well, I suppose my physical age demands [...]
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I saw something today on a tumblr called “queersecrets” (which, in the grand tradition of things like Post Secret and Fandom Secrets, allows people to anonymously send in secrets written on images, in this case regarding anything regarding the alphabetsmoosh), which I “follow,” that gave me pause. The secret, found here, is as follows: (a black [...]
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