Is it wrong that I’m cool with “sex” being removed from the pride flag? They should bring back “magic” though.
Personally I think you’re wrong and an idiot but that’s just my opinion.
Fyi this isn’t a dig at people who are asexual or sex-repulsed. Gay sex was literally a criminal act in the parts of the United States
Texasuntil 2003. A healthy relationship to both sex and your body is a major component of the human experience, but especially LGBTQ+ people. Yes this includes people who have a healthy understanding of their boundaries with regards to sex. To try and divorce the fight for LGBTQ+ rights from sexuality is both dangerous and ahistorical.Part of the fight is the inclusion of, and solidarity with, aromantic people. The original “ace discourse” was equally as horrific to aromantic people, and a huge part of how aromanticism was targeted was through the idea of a person who isn’t romantically attracted to their sexual partners- which people painted as immoral and cruel, and compared to misogynistic men leading women on in order to use them for sexual gratification.
It’s just as important to fight for people’s freedom to have whatever kind of (consensual) sex they want, for any reason they want, as it is to fight for the freedom to not want, and to not have, any sex at all.
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