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Hello everyone, welcome to factually.

My name is Adam Conover.

And this week, I'm doing an interview with the writer named Angela

Chen she published a wonderful book called Ace what Asexuality reveals about

desire society and the meaning of sex.

And as you'll hear in our conversation,

she does an amazing job explaining

what asexuality is, how it works, and why

it's something we ought to understand.

Now, I think it's just inherently fascinating to learn about and

understand the incredible diversity of humanity when it comes to things like

gender and sexuality. There are just so many ways to be a human. It's the coolest thing ever.

And I feel that we have all benefited massively from the movements that have publicized and

normalized those pieces of sexual diversity.

But at the same time I'm also aware that some people are put off by that.

You know, they're like, why you going to tell me about how different everybody is?

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