Asexuality (Deep Dive) (2018 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 223 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm old enough to remember a time when people had no idea that there were gay people in the world. |
| 0:13.0 | When I grew up in the 70s and in the 80s, I remember sort of kind of knowing that there were gay people and lesbians in the |
| 0:22.7 | world, but I certainly didn't know any first hand, or I didn't know that I knew any because |
| 0:27.4 | of all the people who were closeted. And I remember thinking that, sure, you know, there might |
| 0:34.3 | be the one or two gay people on the planet, but certainly there aren't a lot of people who are gay and lesbian. |
| 0:42.2 | There were some characters on TV in the 70s. |
| 0:45.5 | I remember the TV show, Soap with Billy Crystal. |
| 0:49.1 | He was gay and maybe trans, but I might have been too young to really get what that was about. |
| 0:54.1 | I remember some episodes of All in the Family where they tried to tackle bigotry with the main guy. |
| 1:02.6 | He was always bumping up against this bigotry and sort of overcoming it in small ways. |
| 1:07.9 | But again, I think it just went over my head. I barely understood heterosexuality when I was a kid, let alone homosexuality. So it was a very, um, distant thing to me. But then in college, I entered college in late 1989. And instantly I started meeting gay people, lesbians, and friends of mine started coming out. |
| 1:32.1 | And there were, it just seemed like in my world anyway, there was a sudden explosion. |
| 1:37.3 | And then through the 90s, there were characters on TV and more awareness, more advocacy, more politics, more, you know, TV interviews and just more |
| 1:47.4 | awareness. |
| 1:48.8 | And I feel like we are at the cusp right now in 2018, late 2018, 30 years later, |
| 2:00.1 | I feel like we're at the cusp of that when it comes to asexuality. |
| 2:05.3 | We're just at the cusp of society and people understanding what asexuality is. |
| 2:12.5 | And I'm guessing that in the months and years to come, there will be increasing talk about asexuality. |
| 2:19.3 | There will be much confusion. |
| 2:20.9 | There will be much bigotry. |
| 2:22.3 | There will be a lot of terrible tweets. |
| 2:24.1 | And God knows what Trump is going to say about it. |
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