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Being Aromantic
I’ve spoken a lot about asexuality, but there’s another word I’ve frequently used – aromantic. Clearly that’s not a spelling…
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Where Are All The Older Asexuals?
One of the issues often touted online about asexuality is around its demographics, specifically with regard to age. Now, I’m…
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Asexuality, and Travel as an Asexual
As you know, I am “The Barefoot Backpacker“, and I travel around the world. As you may have spotted, I…
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Asexuality and Asexual Pride
I’m often to be found wearing or displaying aspects of Asexual Pride, to demonstrate my identity and my affinity with…
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Asexuality Overview & My Experiences
I kind of realised my asexuality by accident. See, I go through life thinking “Well I won’t know for sure…
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#ThisGuyCan – A Challenge to Toxic Masculinity
This post, about toxic masculinity, is one of the first of a new section of my website where I concentrate…
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Podcast #007: Sexuality while Travelling
Welcome to Episode 7 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time I’m talking about “Sexuality while…
Queer Identities
Asexuality is a sexual orientation. It is the ‘A’ in the LGBTQIA+ acronym. It defines a lack of sexual attraction. People who are asexual experience fewer feelings of sexual desire and ‘need’ that most other orientations do.
It’s less attested than many other sexualities. There’s far fewer of us and we’re not well represented in the media or pop-culture. What little publicity we do get is often misunderstood; people confuse us with celibates or assume we’re just closeted and will grow out of it once we learn more about ourselves.
If you’ve known me for a while you’ll know I consider myself asexual. Although I mention it on my social media profiles, it’s not something I really talk about much on a day-to-day basis. In this section I talk about my experiences as an asexual, and how my asexuality influences my life.
