Under threats such as “asexual are just people who need to get raped hard and often enough” and “Just kill yourself, please seriously, just die. Please kill yourself. In a very painful way” a community of very brave people come together to create a name and a place for themselves (qtd. in Swankivy). From most every age group, religion, nationality, and sex these people are united by only one common denominator – they fall into category “X” of Alfred Kinsey’s scale of human sexuality.
Listed as nothing more than a footnote in Kinsey's 1948 path breaking volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, category X represents the sexual minority known as asexuals, who, according to Kinsey's original description, are people who experience "no socio-sexual response” (Kinsey 658). In the time since Kinsey published this work, however, the asexual community has come to describe themselves as pe...
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