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Sean Redding asked this question about On Chesil Beach:
Has anyone actually noticed that the girl is actually asexual? I seriously feel like everyone has overlooked that.
Silent_Song I thought I was the only one who noticed!
Reading around, it seems writing Florence's character as asexual wasn't the writer's intention but eff it, "…moreI thought I was the only one who noticed!
Reading around, it seems writing Florence's character as asexual wasn't the writer's intention but eff it, "Death of the Author" and all of that.
I could relate a lot to her struggles and it frustrates me that people use the fact that she has been abused when she was a child as an excuse to say she is not asexual. Hello? Survivors of abuse are not "broken"? They can experience sexual attraction before and after being abused?
Also, the term was invented around 1820-30, and before that I am sure asexual people existed, exactly like people of other sexualities.(less)
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On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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