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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Asexuality and Aromanticism with Yasmin Benoit

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Yasmin Benoit, who is a model and asexuality activist. Yasmin discusses asexuality, aromanticism, and their meanings and misconceptions. She and Hannah talk about the difference between attraction, arousal, desire, and the sex drive, as well as asexual and aromantic representation in the media. Finally, Hannah and Yasmin discuss ace and aro inclusion in the LGBTQ+ community, and answer some listener questions.

✨MORE ABOUT YASMIN BENOIT ✨
Yasmin Benoit is a model and asexuality activist. She created the hashtag #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike.
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0:00.0

Hey, it's Vogue Williams and Jeremiah McNally from the My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast.

0:05.2

Join us as we share our hilarious misadventures along with those of our listeners and we try to give good advice.

0:12.1

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0:22.4

solo create stunning visuals for everything. Wow, any audience with Canva and Find My Therapist

0:27.6

ghosted me on Global Player. I mean, I've always found it's interesting because like the masturbation

0:32.9

question is like often, strangely often one of the first questions I get from people I don't even know.

0:38.5

It's really, it's like, it's kind of like,

0:41.0

I feel like it's the trans equivalent

0:42.8

of have you had the surgery,

0:44.1

the asexual equivalent is,

0:45.3

but do you masturbate?

0:50.2

Welcome to doing it with me, Hannah Witten,

0:53.0

where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

1:02.0

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying the new season of doing it so far.

1:06.0

We have had many requests since we started to cover the topics of asexuality and aromanticism.

1:13.2

And I hear you.

1:15.0

Asexuality and aromanticism are so often left out of sex education, the sex positivity movement and the LGBT Plus community.

1:23.9

It is often a misunderstood orientation in a world that is seemingly so obsessed with love

1:30.8

and sex. So in this episode, I chat with Yasmin Benoit, a model and asexuality activist.

1:38.6

Yasmin identifies as asexual and aromantic, and we chat about what both of these terms mean and common misconceptions

1:45.6

about them. The differences between attraction, arousal, desire and sex drive. And we talk about

1:52.6

asexual media representation and inclusion in pride and the LGBTQ plus community. Yasmin was so

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