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Asexuality Research Has Reached New Heights. What Are We Learning?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A grassroots online movement has helped shift the way scientists think about asexuality. But much is still unknown. This is part four of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:20.1

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.

0:22.7

J-P. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:31.9

All the language that is telling from the asexual and irromantic community gives people

0:37.0

precision for thinking of themselves

0:39.3

in ways that it was impossible to think of ourselves before because the language didn't exist.

0:44.2

My favorite being what-the-fuck sexual, which is like just refusing to engage with like the whole

0:49.2

spectrum of having to identify in terms of attraction.

0:53.3

There's this like whole world underneath people's clothing that no one talks about.

0:58.5

Our science in some ways is catching up with people's existences.

1:03.0

I'm Megan McDonough, and you're listening to Scientific Americans Science Quickly.

1:07.5

This is part four of a four-part fascination on the science of pleasure. In this series,

1:13.1

we're asking what we can learn from those with marginalized experiences to redefine sexuality,

1:18.3

get to the bottom of BDSM, and find the female orgasm. In this episode, we'll look at how

1:24.0

the way in which scientists think about asexuality has shifted.

1:34.7

I'm scrolling through the asexuality visibility and education network, or AVEN website.

1:40.9

One of Avan's recent newsletters covers Valentine's Day. It asks, what do you do on this day?

1:46.0

And how do you cope with this day as an asexual and or aromantic?

1:50.0

One person writes that they believe that love doesn't necessarily have to have a sexual or romantic element to it,

1:57.0

and I spend the day with people I love.

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