It’s been a long while since Asexuality Awareness Week (the last week of October 2020), but that’s when we recorded this episode and dang it, Becca and Hannah Davey have THOUGHTS about asexuality in media and in fandom! As we say in this podcast’s intro, we’re going to talk about sex this episode, but in a very removed way. We keep it together for the first half of the episode, discussing canon asexual characters in original works as well as ace representation in fics, but we get into some personal opinions (as two bi aces) about sex, virginity, societal shaming, and assumptions that people make about asexuals (and just relationships in general). If that sort of discussion sounds uncomfortable for you, you can bail once the music starts playing 40 minutes in.

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Music/Sound Effect Credits

Intro: ‘The Messenger - Silent Partner’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiitCHuE5g

Outro: ‘Brain’ by Lobo Loco via Free Music Archive

Filler Music: ‘Work Wonders’ by Lobo Loco via Free Music Archive

Sound effect: ‘cartoon xylophone gliss’ via Free Sounds Library