This made John Evelyn rather plaintively complain (Sep 29, 1659) that, nooo marriage is great! 😭 Being a 'seraphim', is an okay lifestyle for SOME people but, not for YOU Robert Boyle! Please stop being so indifferent to romance and get married! 🙄 emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/w/956215 #asexualhistory?

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“I am Ace” is on the list of book banned by the Republicans.

Read banned books!

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The history of asexuality | learn more about asexuality on asexuals.net

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The history of asexuality

The next time someone says 'you're just making up labels now', you show them this blog. Let's dive deep into the history of asexuality.

Asexuals

This being an old document, it's not surprising that it contains some questionable language/rhetoric:

- The asexual identity here is seen as something that only people who aren't into sex can be, which is a harmful notion that leads to gatekeeping and erasure of sex-neutral and sex-favorable aces;

- Pronoun usage is like "him/her" instead of "them";

- This seems to be from a radical feminist perspective, so I'm not sure how much of this is entrenched into anti-kink/monosexist/cissexist/colonialist/etc. rhetoric.

However, it's good to have a piece of asexual history around.

GDocs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTtn8Pb5uvtpz1bEhm_22GoCVxlWA_4V5YoXBk2Mnqs/edit

Scribd: https://pt.scribd.com/document/414122159/The-Asexual-Manifesto-Lisa-Orlando

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