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Sex? No, Thanks – Asexual People Speak Out

September 16, 2022

What does it mean to live without sexual desire? Can you have children? Can you find a partner? Is it still possible to be in love?

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Martin, Akaya und Lennart
Image: Benjamin Bischof/DW

Three asexual people talk about their lives and their very different ways of navigating their sexual orientation. Lennart is 38 and lives in Hamburg. After a few relationships he concluded that he’s asexual and aromantic. He has no interest in having sex or a partner. 60-year-old Martin from Speyer realized in his youth that he was asexual, even if he didn’t have a term for it at the time. Nonetheless, he is married and has two children. But for him, sex is only a means to an end. 22-year-old Akaya from Bielefeld has no sexual desire of any kind. She also finds masturbation unappealing. She lives with her girlfriend in a homoromantic relationship without sex.

A Report by Tessa Clara Walther 

 

 

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