Asexuality And Fiction Reviews
I totally lack time, but I also would like to start doing reviews of works 1) that have asexuality as a theme, 2) have asexual characters, or 3) don't have asexuality specifically as a theme but which might be interesting to review from an asexual perspective anyway (for example, works which have as a theme "sexuality is an intrinsic part of being
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I just read the description on Amazon on Necessary Ill -- wow. That's got a lot of problems, yes. But is it related to asexuality, or mainly is it transgender/intersex fail? (Or in that universe, are these one and the same thing?)
I put out a call for recs to an asexuality group list I am on, and got back a surprising number of stories which are trans fail. It seems there is a set of authors who cannot imagine asexuality without also these characters "genderless," which brings us right into trans-fail territory. Because CLEARLY if one doesn't experience sexual attraction, one HAS NO GENDER (and vice versa).
I fear my reviews might get somewhat repetitive! "And here we have yet another world, with aliens/genetically engineered people who are both asexual, and genderless (or who change genders), and no asexual or transgender or intersex 'regular humans' because to admit that real people exist would break the suspension of disbelief that they're just a thought experiment."
I wonder of this trend began with Left Hand of Darkness or is older.
And yes, please feel free to send along the link to your review.
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