Asexual Representation

[_ocelott_]

In my travels around the interwebs, I came across a fantastic blog, Charlie the Unicorn, Ace Detective. You're probably looking at that title and wondering "uhh, what?" It's a blog about asexuality, and his post on asexual representation in particular got me thinking. Charlie laments the lack of asexual characters presented in fiction, and talks

Comments

Sherlock

[anonymous]

What about the BBC's Sherlock? I've heard that's been a character that a lot of asexual people have been seeing themselves in, although I don't think he's officially asexual on the show.

[shiv5468]

Sherlock as asexual is pretty much canon in the source text but you'd never know it from fanfic/fandom.

[marycatelli]

Nowadays, you introduce an asexual character, or any character not sexually active, and people start making insinuitions about what he must be doing secretly.

[bemused_leftist]

No tension in OST around Spock, pity.

[bemused_leftist]

I don't remember MISS Marple getting sexy, or Nero Wolfe, or classic Superman, or Tarzan with anyone except Jane (remember him snubbing La),