Asexuals Have Problems Too

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 10 of Queer as Fact! This week’s episode we're talking about a 1971 article from the Village Voice memorably titled ‘Asexuals Have Problems Too’. Join us to hear about being invited to orgies to pour the wine, why 101 Dalmatians is a piece of ace cinema, and how this satirical article became a surprising source of ace visibility. This episode was originally released on our Patreon as a bonus episode. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image description: a cropped image of the Village Voice article entitled Asexuals Have Problems Too]

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	This is just a quick message before we get into the episode proper.
0:03.5	The plague has struck us again, and so we've had to delay the episode which we plan
0:06.6	to record for you today.
0:07.9	But instead, we have this shorter episode for you, which our patrons enjoyed a few months
0:11.4	back.
0:12.4	It features some bonus content from my research for our episode on the asexual manifesto.
0:16.1	We hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back to business as usual from December 15th. Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:23.8	and throughout time.
0:24.9	I'm Alice.
0:25.7	I'm Jason.
0:26.5	And I'm Eli.
0:27.4	And today we'll be talking about the 1971 Village Voice article, Asexuals have problems
0:32.6	too.
0:46.2	Okay. I'd like to acknowledge the Wurundry Woyang people of the Koolen Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay my respects to their elders past
0:50.6	and present. They're the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this
0:54.8	podcast. We have some content warnings for this episode. This episode will include historical
1:00.3	acephobia and homophobia and also mentions of sex. But that's about it. Today's bonus episode
1:06.6	comes out of something I came across while researching our episode a few months back on the 1970s
1:12.4	asexual manifesto. This is something that didn't quite fit with the theme of asexuality within
1:16.6	feminism, but I still thought it was a fun little insight into asexuality in the 1970s, so I wanted
1:22.1	to cover it here. In February 1971, Greenwich newspaper The Village Voice published an article titled,
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