#sigh. i just go to a very asexual very repressed school. i learned this in my chaucer class.

[jaiofalltrades]

it drives me a little bit nuts when other asexual people use asexuality to justify being weird about sex in texts. like i’ve run into multiple people in my college classes who either refuse to engage with or just fully sensationalize the sex in plays/books/stories/whatever we have to read. like i get being personally skeeved out by sex. i do! but that doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility to destigmatize sex and be sex positive. idk how you can call yourself a feminist or an advocate of queer rights if you think sex is inherently unpalatable. again, i get the feeling. i also think the idea of sex on a personal level is gross. i also get uncomfortable when people or media talk about it. but 1) i know being asexual doesn’t give you a monopoly on being repressed. just think of the catholics. the asians. the eggs. and 2) i’m not gonna ignore the thing that makes me uncomfortable. i’m gonna engage with it. bc were fuckin english majors and that’s what we do. i’m ace, not a puritan. you know? also. while we’re here. sex positivity means sex neutrality. fighting for the rights of the sex enjoyers to enjoy sex means fighting for the rights of the sex not havers to not have sex. please don’t take this as me shaming anyone for being a prude. i’m shaming people for perpetuating the stigmatization of sex and being bad literary critics.