“…a person without sensuality … the author has the courage to admit to this category.”

Teacher, diabetes clinician and sexuality researcher Emma Trosse wrote these words in 1897, becoming one of our earliest examples of someone self-identifying as what we would today call #asexual!
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Interesting 1907 quote by a pastor called Carl Schlegel:

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Scan from an 1976 article in an gay magazine which discusses asexuality in some depth [1]. It's interesting to see how the Asexual Manifesto has echoed through time up to the present day. #asexualhistory

[1]: Turner, Greg (1976). Sexual identity. Gay Liberator, issue 48, 1976, p. 6.

Our next episode discusses the asexual aspects of Hestia, the Hearth Goddess.
Hestia was both the first born Olympian, and the first swallowed by Kronos, then the last Olympian expelled from Kronos' gut by Zeus! She keeps the hearth of Olympus!
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In Contrary Sexuality (1895) Emma Trosse argued that since the existence of "those who posses no sexual desire whatsoever" is natural, it cannot be immoral [1]. In fact, Trosse counted herself among this category, which she called "third gender" or "asensual".
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This made John Evelyn rather plaintively complain (Sep 29, 1659) that, nooo marriage is great! 😭 Being a 'seraphim', is an okay lifestyle for SOME people but, not for YOU Robert Boyle! Please stop being so indifferent to romance and get married! 🙄
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Good morning friends! Posted a short Clock ⏰️ app video this morning for #AceWeek2023 - the history of asexuality 🤍💜🖤 Check it out! 😀 #asexual #lgbt #amwriting #queerhistory #history

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