See my response above.

Completely agree on the "content" thing. As far as treatment, I'm making the assumption that their sex drive could be increased, but I don't know for certain that it could be in all or any cases.

Thanks, but I'm probably being stupid rather than brave.

See my response above. My only thought is that asexual people may not know what they're missing. Like chocolate ice cream—my son was convinced he didn't want any and refused to try it for years. Then he finally gave in and ate a spoonful and quickly changed his mind. Is it just *possible*—and I don't know the answer…

Well, I do think it's a defect, but I don't think it's one that HAS to be corrected or implies that the person who has it is evil or wrong in some fashion. I don't condemn diabetics for their disease, either. But somehow when it becomes a behavioral thing then people start to think in terms of judgement—which is wrong.

True enough. I'm not debating that point. I'm just saying that the sex drive evolved as a method of keeping the species going, and if no one had it, our species would end a la Children of Men.

Please don't jump down my throat about this, because I am trying very hard to understand. Maybe I'm just too old. But as someone who works in the medical field, my understanding is that the sex drive is a primal drive which is important to keep organisms from dying out due to lack of reproduction. So isn't asexuality…

And here I thought this was a new take on the PBS kids show.

Wasn't The Cyrkle managed by Brian Epstein? You'd think he would've known this wasn't the band he'd signed.

I have loved this movie for years (the Elvis soundtrack certainly didn't hurt). Thank you for such an insightful essay. I would take Lilo and Stitch over Frozen any day.

Arthur made watching TV with my two toddlers bearable back in the Nineties. Any show that had characters suddenly notice the narrating singing moose (played by Art Garfunkel) and a dream allusion to Kafka's Metamorphosis was a delight to watch and laugh at, even if my kids had no idea why their mom was hysterical.

Funny you should mention "Happy" since HRC just played it at her rally today.

Up voted because those songs are awesome, not because I agree with your premise.

I do not believe in ghosts, so there goes your logic.

British and American humor are peanut butter and chocolate. Two great tastes that taste great together.

Make crosses from your lovers and throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer prayin in vain for a savior to rise from these streets…

You're right. I was in a hurry to edit and misremembered. Fixed.

Dahl wrote some amazing short stories for adults which have mostly been forgotten. One was Lamb to the Slaughter, which got turned into an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Another one was The Wish, about a kid imagining that the carpet in his home is part of a jungle, with the red patches as fire and the black…

Yeech. NO. The original illustrations by Joseph Schindelman for Charlie are far better. Nancy Eckholm Burkett did a fantastic job on James and the Giant Peach as well. Blake's drawings look like a five-year-old did them.

My spouse used to stack the deck so that our daughter would win as quickly as possible. Otherwise the game would go on forever. I remember once it took over an hour before anyone won, and that's when he started doing this.