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Jun. 3rd, 2019 03:01 pmI identify as queer.
I am a cis woman who at one point, about a decade ago, came out as bisexual. That wasn’t a knee-jerk or snap judgment, it was the culmination of years of observations, realizations, and late-night conversations, primarily with myself but occasionally with a friend. I reexamined every part of my life until I couldn’t ignore the truth anymore--I wasn’t straight and I never had been.
But after all of that, after I thought I had everything figured out, I had more epiphanies come to smack me in the face.
For most of my life I didn’t know the world “asexual” existed. It was never a concept that anyone introduced to me as a child or a teenager. It was just assumed that every one was a sexual being, that sex was clearly natural and everyone clearly wanted to have it. I was taught as a teenager that lust was sinful, that sex was sinful, and that I should never, ever have it (until I got married, of course). And that was easy for me. Don’t have sex? Okay, no problem, not a big deal.
( My Journey to Queer )
I am a cis woman who at one point, about a decade ago, came out as bisexual. That wasn’t a knee-jerk or snap judgment, it was the culmination of years of observations, realizations, and late-night conversations, primarily with myself but occasionally with a friend. I reexamined every part of my life until I couldn’t ignore the truth anymore--I wasn’t straight and I never had been.
But after all of that, after I thought I had everything figured out, I had more epiphanies come to smack me in the face.
For most of my life I didn’t know the world “asexual” existed. It was never a concept that anyone introduced to me as a child or a teenager. It was just assumed that every one was a sexual being, that sex was clearly natural and everyone clearly wanted to have it. I was taught as a teenager that lust was sinful, that sex was sinful, and that I should never, ever have it (until I got married, of course). And that was easy for me. Don’t have sex? Okay, no problem, not a big deal.
( My Journey to Queer )
