They are the friends and family members who don’t express any desire to pursue sexual intimacy, who don’t often or ever seem interested in conventional dating, and who get pushed to the sidelines in any conversation about sexual health. This is a metaphor-albeit a comparatively mild and whimsical one-for the predicament faced by the more than 1 percent of the population who are asexual (“ace” for short), meaning they don’t experience sexual attraction. Imagine wondering if other people like you exist in the world-how much it would change your life if someone told you, “Some people just don’t like ice cream, and that’s okay.” Imagine, too, that no one ever told you it was possible to dislike ice cream or even to feel neutral about it. Expressing this disconnect to friends is usually met with the accusation that you “just haven’t had any good ice cream yet,” but you know that isn’t true you simply don’t like the stuff. Walking down the street, or roaming the internet, you’re bombarded with ads-“Sweet, cold bliss in a sumptuous cone!” “Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry: What’s your pleasure?”-and, at first, this annoys you, but as time goes on, it begins to make you feel downright broken.
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