Not Broken In The Slightest: Asexuality, And Why I Wrote About It

If you haven’t read it already, you may not be aware that Cass, the main character of my book The Summer We’ve Had, is asexual.

Wow! Shock! Horror! According to much of the bigoted closed-minded Twitterati I’ve been seeing on my timeline in the last few weeks, this is a travesty of love. Or indeed a travesty of anything. I’m going to explain, as simply and succinctly as I can, why it’s not. And why I decided to write about asexuality in my Sapphic fiction book.

Firstly, let’s define asexuality...