Asexual people are accustomed to hearing dehumanizing rationalizations for why asexuality either cannot possibly exist or for why asexuals are deviant, with variations on the claims that asexuality “goes against (human) nature” or that “sex is what makes us human.” But many asexuals have taken this in stride, (half-jokingly) concluding that, if we are not human, then surely we must be displaced gods.

