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Comment on To Tweet or Not to Tweet by Diana

Diana — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:34:43 +0000

Ohhhh, cruel :-)

Comment on Asexuality on House: You’re Doing it Wrong by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:30:47 +0000

I’ve known that i was asexual since i was 13 years of age, had an early sexual debute and before i was 11 i had tried both girls and boys (no abuse whatsoever). With that said I’ve never felt sexual attraction to a body or to a person since i was a child (how strange that might sound, neither do i have any strange sexual attractions). I can sexually get myself aroused by basically putting myself in another persons emotional situation, using empathy to trigger my own body – even so i never feel drawn to sex by my mind.

As i watched the episode of House i did aswell get disappointed by the obvious route it took, in the earlier seasons maybe this would have made for an excellent point of a couple of episodes between House and Wilson (the empath and the nihilist).

So what has House given me by putting out a physical fault disclaimer on people whom are asexual?
I now want to get myself checked, not because i think i have a tumor, but because i know itll eat on my unconcious mind enough if i dont. And as im not proclaimed asexual, my family no doubt believes me to be slow of mind or homosexual (as i look good), that once i announce it i want to be 100% sure that i got no physical condition effecting my mind. So that is what house has given me, the urge and the unnecessary cost to get a MRI.

A last note: I do not like the categorisation people tend to make in context to asexuality with “-romantic”, fine that you might be drawn to the mind of someone, but it is likely to be enough of a struggle to get the general person to aknowledge that there is a top category (sexual and asexual) before people start propagating the subcatgories of the new field as equally imporant (missunderstand me right, you need the first to get the second – with subcategories that can be hard to seperate clearly a from normal low sexual drive you basically ask for people to missinterpret your situation).
Im not sorry for pushing this propaganda in here, but if you want it gone feel free to ad it out.

Comment on Asexuality on House: You’re Doing it Wrong by My Initial Reaction to tonight’s (er.. last night’s) episode of #House … #spoilers | The Asexual Sexologist

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:40:42 +0000

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House Linkspam « Writing From Factor X — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:18:19 +0000

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Comment on Asexuality on House: You’re Doing it Wrong by swankivy

swankivy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:21:13 +0000

Huge at least was primetime in the USA. It was on ABC Family for one season. Premiered on June 28, 2010 with 2.53 million viewers, but canceled in October. The character explicitly said “I basically identify as asexual” and described her experience of not having romance or attraction. But it was just once and no one made a big deal out of it or tried to debunk her, which was nice.

Comment on Asexuality on House: You’re Doing it Wrong by Megan Christopher

Megan Christopher — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:35:56 +0000

Yeah, I was thinking more about primetime American television. Awareness in America is really the worst, due, I believe, to our highly sexualized society. Asexuality is right up there with atheism in the U.S. You can feel it, just don’t say it out loud.

Comment on Asexuality on House: You’re Doing it Wrong by swankivy

swankivy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:27:53 +0000

Actually I can think of three asexual characters (explicitly so, as in, they call it that, using that word) who have been on mainstream television:

Poppy: aromantic female asexual, canceled TV show Huge, USA
Gerald: biromantic male asexual, ongoing TV show Shortland Street, New Zealand
Martin: heteroromantic male asexual, canceled TV show Godiva’s, Canada

But the fact remains that not all of them do it right and this is a blow for visibility.

Comment on Picture Perfect by brianna

brianna — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:37:57 +0000

BOO YAH!!! positive vibes!!
i feel the same way about my tired ol’ mug, and love it when i can find one pic that doesn’t make me cringe. You are gorgeous, and i’m glad you have a picture that makes you feel the way we all see you :)

Comment on Ace News: Sherlock Vs. House – Who’s Doing it Right? by Rem Anon

Rem Anon — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:07:24 +0000

To be fair, asexual people do a have a choice, when it comes to deciding whether to pursue/have sex and/or romantic relationships. That might be how that was meant. But I do agree with the rest of what you said. It really annoys me that Moffat turned around and said that.

Comment on Ace News: Sherlock Vs. House – Who’s Doing it Right? by Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:01:03 +0000

I doubt he’ll try to bed her, if she’s asexual with the man she loves, why would she fall far him? My guess is that he will prove, with the blood work etc, that she has something wrong with her. Or, maybe we’ll all be wrong and she will actually turn out to be asexual. We can only hope.