Catherine Hayden’s Reviews > Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex > Status Update

I do think there is a fundamental difference between being a “homosexual/heterosexual 5 year old” and an “ace 5 year old” because when a child is gay/straight it is not that they or anyone is actually talking about their SEXUALITY at that age. or at least they shouldn’t bc that makes no sense and is weird. ppl are looking at ROMANTIC attraction. it would make more sense to be talking about aro label here…

House L Wilson W as always

“Surveys of the average community show that far more women identify as asexual compared to men about 63% vs 11% according to the most recent numbers likely in part because asexuality is a great challenge to male sexual stereotypes.” the % are def gender breakdown of the ace community (though at first seem like % of gender who id as ace) but I’m interested in the 26% that i guess is trans + why that might be