Slog - Comments on The Slog Post I Was Going to Write http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write It was called "The Real Sexual Minority" and it went like this: * * * * Asexuals. Victoria Glancy and Karl Hodgetts got married in May. They had sex once, but have no real interest in doing it again and still consider themselves asexual. And, should you want to come out as a—what would the slang term be? an aggot?—there are some helpful hints on this site: Sexual people. They’re pretty much everywhere. Most of the characters we see in movies, most of our friends, most of the people that we’re in relationships with and most of our families care... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:15:42 -0800 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:26:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by tsm I know that folks like this exist, but, as someone in the article suggested, I kind of wonder how many in the category "asexual" really are that way, and how many are just terribly sexually inhibited and trying to avoid it (closested gays, folks raised as Christian fundies who haven't gotten over their conditioning, etc.)

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659787 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:59:55 -0800 Comment by Courtney "Friends without benefits."

]]> Courtney http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659796 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:03:52 -0800 Comment by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS Agate!

]]> SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659797 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:07:11 -0800 Comment by Abby Cricket is awfully confusing.

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659800 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:08:53 -0800 Comment by elswinger Cricket is the most god awful boring game on the planet.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c659821 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:25:02 -0800 Comment by weird Regardless, I didn't like the shrill tone of the sex therapist in that article. She pretty much said that obviously these people are deranged and self-delusional freaks if they don't have sex.

It doesn't sound like that's the case here. These people just aren't that sexual and are tired of beating themselves up over it. Forming a club seems a bit much, but whatever.

]]> weird http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660000 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660000 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:34:39 -0800 Comment by dorothy arg , i want to watch the videos !

]]> dorothy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660009 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660009 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:43:46 -0800 Comment by dorothy videos !
Here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8FEh2ANMc

can you tell i am home sick ?

]]> dorothy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660014 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:46:33 -0800 Comment by Monique @Elswinger: The point of cricket, as told to me by an awesome bartender in Scotland:

The game of cricket is long and takes all day/many days. This give you plenty of time with your friends to get trashed and stay trashed for hours on end. You don't have to keep an eagle eye on the game, since the damn thing last so long. You also have an excuse to stay out of the house for 8-10 hours at a time. Drunk As Piss


The British are geniuses!

]]> Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660164 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:01:43 -0800 Comment by kt self-censorship, brendan? but yet you put it up anyway. hmmmmm.

]]> kt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660219 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:29:14 -0800 Comment by Megan I know a guy who's asexual, and his background is pretty much as far left as you can get-- definitely not a question of sexual repression or fundamentalist upbringing or anything like that.


He dated a couple of girls in middle school, then tried dating guys in high school (we went to a small, very liberal private school where this was more than ok), and came to the realization that he just wasn't sexually interested in men or women.


Now that he's found a way to categorize himself, he's a lot happier and doesn't feel pressure to have sexual relationships. He's content with his job, his friends, his hobbies, etc.


Knowing Dave, I can understand why these guys in the article would want to form a group with other asexual people, since they're probably as sick as he is of all the pressure to have sexual relationships, and the comments like #1 above.


*off the soapbox now*

]]> Megan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660253 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660253 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:50:57 -0800 Comment by isabelita Well, at least they aren't contributing to further world overpopulation.

]]> isabelita http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660308 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660308 Housekeeping Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:24:20 -0800 Comment by Chris If you acknowledge that people have varying levels of sexual desire, which is impossible to not do, you pretty much have to accept that some people have virtually none. What's so difficult for that "sex therapist" to understand about that?

I could honestly live easily without sex. It takes too long to get where you're going, and the conclusion is always kind of ho-hum. What confuses me is why the couple sees any need to be in a relationship at all.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660683 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_slog_post_i_was_going_to_write#c660683 Housekeeping Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:26:59 -0800