Asexuality Research Has Reached New Heights. What Are We Learning?
Science Quickly
Scientific American
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | All the language that is telling from the a sexual and a romantic community gives people precision for thinking of themselves in ways that it was impossible to think of ourselves before because the language didn't exist. |
| 0:42.0 | My favorite being what the fuck sexual, |
| 0:44.1 | which is like just refusing to engage |
| 0:46.3 | with like the whole spectrum of having |
| 0:48.6 | to identify in terms of attraction. |
| 0:51.4 | There's this like whole world underneath people's clothing that no one talks about. |
| 0:56.0 | Are science in some ways is catching up with people's existences? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Megan McDonough and you're listening to Scientific Americans science quickly. |
| 1:05.0 | This is part four of a four-part fascination on the science of pleasure. |
| 1:10.0 | In this series we're asking what we can learn from those with marginalized experiences |
| 1:14.4 | to redefine sexuality, get to the bottom of BDSM, and find the female orgasm. |
| 1:20.3 | In this episode we'll look at how the way in which scientists think about asexuality has shifted. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm scrolling through the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network or Avin |
| 1:37.5 | website. One of Avin's recent newsletters covers Valentine's Day. It asks what what do you do on this day? And how do you cope with this day as an asexual and or a romantic? |
| 1:48.0 | One person writes that they believe that love doesn't necessarily have to have a sexual or romantic element to it, and I spend the day with people I love. |
| 1:57.0 | Asexual or ace people typically experience little to no sexual attraction and comprise about 1.7% of adults and |
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