People believe what the media tells them. Is it a really, really freaking good idea to get the MMR on schedule? Yes. Are children in imminent peril because some people are delaying or even forgoing it? No.

I'm somewhat amused that people here are so quick to dismiss women's—because, come on, this is about moms—ability to make medical decisions.

Given that women not in college are more likely than their same-age peers who are in college to be raped, it would appear not. But, hey, let's not fuck with the narrative.

Because when you describe somewhat low sexual desire—not a complete lack of sexual desire—as "asexuality," it means that you are constructing typical sexuality in a particular way. You are reinforcing the problem. If people feel like freaks because they don't want to hump hot strangers on the bus, the answer isn't to…

I don't think anybody is denying the existence of true asexuality. I think it's more what does seem like a newish, internet trend of people who do not seem to be classically asexual (having no interest in or enjoyment of sex) describing themselves that way. What they seem to be describing, instead, is what normal…

To be clear, I'm not saying that girls pretend to like boys. I'm saying that we are all working within certain social scripts that influence our behavior and even our desires (or sense of our own desires). I genuinely "liked boys" when I was a young teen. I wanted a boyfriend. I wanted to hold hands and go on dates…

Giving baths is my least favorite parenting chore. I'd rather change a hundred diapers than give baths. The only upside of bath time is that my kids splash so much that I can count wiping all the water up with a towel as mopping the bathroom floor, and mopping is my least favorite housecleaning chore. So I at least…

I think most couples manage to negotiate a sexual relationship that works for both. In my marriage, we have sex less often than my husband would ideally prefer, and more often than I'd need. However, that's fine. He doesn't need to have sex every time he wants sex. And, I don't need to be wildly, incredibly…

I'm not sure it can be a worst-case bath scenario if it doesn't involve somebody pooping in the tub. Bonus if they do it while a sibling is in there with them.

That sounds a lot more like what I'd think "asexuality" describes.

If I thought these things needed labels, it certainly sounds more to me like this person's partner is hypersexual than that the person is demisexual. However, I think both fall within the range of normal.

I don't know. I think not feeling sexually attracted to somebody until 20 is pretty normal. I can't speak from experience, because quite honestly I spent most of my teen and young adult years performing sexual desire rather than feeling it. I was so invested in the idea—as I think many people are—that being…

It just seems like what you are saying is that wanting to fuck strangers = normal, and wanting to be in a committed, loving, close relationship before sex = abnormal. I'm not buying that, not given what we know about most people, especially most women's, sexual behavior.

Among my married 30-something peers, I know two kinds of (straight) couples: couples where the husband wants sex and the wife would be fine having it once a year or so, and couples where the wife wants sex and the husband would be fine having it once a year or so. Nearly everybody manages to make it work, because in…

I still don't see how this requires a separate label. You have been attracted, sexually, to one man out of the hundreds/thousands you've met. Other women might have been sexually attracted to dozens of those men. Some might have been sexually attracted to a small handful of the men they've known. And some might have…

Eh. I think that sounds pretty normal, honestly. I would say that for most of most people's lives, they do not walk around lusting after strangers. I think I can remember maybe one or two times in my life when I saw a stranger so hot that I actually felt my loins quiver a bit, and that passed pretty quickly.…

Not just an 80s/90s thing. MBTI quizzes regularly make the rounds on my FB pages, which people wanting to make sure everybody knows how special and unique their personality type makes them.

Yes. I feel like this need to embrace a lack of interest in sex as an identity is mostly due to two related myths: that women, as a general rule, want sex just as much as men, and that men, as a general rule, want sex all the time. Neither of these things is true, and I think they really distort our views of what is…