No one is denying asexuality exists. Asexuality has always existed. What has not always existing are the contradictory, confusing, and vague words and circumstances used to describe asexuality. 

Right. Because asexual has been misused and misapplied so much to the point it’s starting to lose any meaning. It means many different things to many different people, and it’s also used to describe the presence of sexual desire when that’s not what the word means.

1) the definition of asexual has been consistent since the word showed up in dictionaries. It’s clearly gone the same way as “ironic” where people misuse it, but the definition never changed. I guess you can be suspect of dictionaries, but that doesn’t change the definition of the word.

I saw a bunch of Trump morons wearing shirts that said, “I’d rather be Russian than Democrat.”

This right here. SL allowed this man to live on campus. Guests usually have a short stay whereas this guy moved in but SL still considered him a guest even after students complained.

No one, especially since you can’t take it if you’re breastfeeding.

Kate has worn that dress before, and it was meh then too. (It looks more David’s Bridal than Kleinfeld’s but yeah.)

Precisely this right here. If you’re using the term asexual when describing the presence of sexual desire on a spectrum of intensity, then asexuality is meaningless.

And that’s why my entire response to this article was, “sometimes you want sex and sometimes you don’t.”

If you don’t like the dictionary definition of something, then petition Merriam Webster or find another word to describe what you want to say. Don’t tell me, “I know what the dictionary says, but...” No, you and the author of this book don’t understand what asexual means and the term never includes information on the…

Because words matter? Because How to Do It is littered with letters from people claiming one sexual identity while describing completely different behavior that doesn’t align with the meaning and then complaining about it. Because I got tired of dating men who claimed to be sex addicts but only wanted sex once a week.…

My dad complained to me once that my brother wasn’t very motivated or ambitious unlike me. I had to carefully explain that because my dad favored my brother, sent him to private schools, gave him money to travel, paid for tutors, and put him in a room with wealthy elite people so he could marry one, which he did, that…

Because the dictionary definition of asexual is “experiencing no sexual feelings or desires; not feeling sexual attraction to anyone.”

Much like Carlson, I’m speaking truth to power. I’m only asking the tough questions no one else will ask.

Again with this First Amendment shit. Yes, you have freedom of speech but not freedom from consequences of that speech.

Agreed. The definition here doesn’t match with the dictionary definition at all.

I don’t buy it either because asexual means so many things to so many people. In advice columns, it’s ALWAYS in a response to a question about a romantic partner who is no longer interested in sex. I’ve also seen that label used from women in religious communities who have sex for the first time on their wedding night…

The network is right to prohibit such things but...

I guess this explains a lot of the odd and contradictory letters in Slate’s How To Do It. The bulk of the self-labeled asexual letters can be summed up as: sometimes I’m horny and sometimes I’m not or I can only have sex under these specific circumstances.

Right? He definitely brings a lot more to the table than she does unless looking bored in pictures is a talent.