Angela Chen: Asexuality Is Pretty Complex—And That's OK

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Angela Chen talks about the broad spectrum of experiences that make up asexuality, the myth of sexual liberation, and her new book, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. Want to recommend a future guest? Come find us on Twitter @lgbtqpod.

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0:00.0	From The Advocate Magazine in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is
0:09.3	LGBTQ and A.
0:12.1	Angela Chen has written one of those books that shocked me by showing me just how much I did
0:17.2	not understand about something.
0:19.7	That something in this case is asexuality, it is a word that all of us know, but I believe
0:25.6	do not understand the full meaning of.
0:29.0	People who are asexual do not experience sexual attraction.
0:33.5	And that's easy enough to define, right?
0:36.7	Yes. But also, no.
0:38.2	As you will hear, asexuality encompasses an incredibly broad range of experiences, and Angela Chen
0:45.1	is here today to talk all about it.
0:48.1	She is the author of the new book, Ace, What Asexuality Reveals, About Desire, Society,
0:53.8	and the Meaning of Sex. Ace is another word for asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex.
0:55.0	Ace is another word for asexual, so just a heads up there, he'll hear us use those two words interchangeably.
1:02.0	So without further ado, here's Angela Chen.
1:06.0	In the book, you do a really incredible job of giving the asexuality 101 that is necessary without dumbing it down or oversimplifying anything.
1:22.6	I think for me, my biggest takeaway, and it sounds obvious in hindsight, but my biggest takeaway
1:27.5	is how many different ways there are to be asexual.
1:33.3	And I hate to say it, but I did not know that it was this umbrella term that encompasses such
1:38.1	a broad range of experiences.
1:40.5	Do you find that that is a common misconception?
1:43.0	It is so common.
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