This is Pillow Talk brought to you by Killer and A Sweet Thing.

I'm Eileen Kelly and I'm Jacob Safarian.

On this podcast we normalize sexual experiences by allowing the people who live them to speak for themselves.

On today's episode, we are joined by a sexual activist, Norrine.

Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. a sexual activist Norrine.

Thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you for having me.

So for our audience, could you define asexuality?

Sure.

Well, asexuality is an orientation where one does not experience sexual attraction to any gender,

male or female.

So instead of being heterosexual or homosexual, you don't experience attraction to anyone.

That's the basic definition of a sexuality and of course there's a lot of diversity within that group.

And is it any sort of spectrum of just being not very sexually

attracted to somebody or is it just a point flat out like you're not attracted at all to anybody else sexually.

There is a spectrum.

There are labels like gray asexual or demissexual which means you know people who identify as that may rarely experience a sexual

attraction to someone. Sometimes it's when there's an emotional connection

developed first but generally when they look at people in the world they don't have that

sexual attraction on an ongoing basis. For me personally I identify as

completely asexual so I never experienced sexual attraction but there is a difference between

sexual attraction and having sexual feelings like experiencing a rouser or a libido.

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