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The Big, Meaningless Questions

It happens sometimes when you come out to a friend or some group you belong to. If you are lucky (or unlucky, depending on your point of view) enough to be interviewed by a member of the press, you’re as likely as not to get it there, too: The big meaningless questions.

“Have you ever had sex?”

“Do you masturbate?”

Now, as a big meaningless rhetoric exercise, read each phrase aloud repeatedly, emphasizing the first word the first time, next time the second, and so on.

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Asexual Perspectives

Opening the door to self-discovery

By ~Acer~

As humans, we are in general a social species, programmed to support each other in family units and communities and it seems often mob rule dictates what is normal, expected or acceptable behaviour. Especially in a modern society where the media projects these ideas into every facet of our lives, we are now educated very early on as to how life apparently is. No matter what our true feelings inside, we may now attempt to adhere to the ‘rules’ that we have collectively set ourselves.

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