It’s Like Virginity, But Cooler

My testimony as an asexual Christian, with memes.

Emily Rose
17 min readSep 20, 2022

True to my usual self, I came out to my parents with a terrible joke.

I was raised in a Presbyterian household in Charleston, SC, so you can imagine how well this went over. Or maybe over their heads. Mostly, my parents just seemed to misunderstand my grand proclamation.

I talk more and more about my experience as an asexual person these days, and I’ve been asked often why I would bother. Compared to the supposed deviance of homosexuality and gender dysphoria, what is there to advocate for? Isn’t that basically the ideal for Christians like myself? If you don’t have a sex-life, what is…

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