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Title: Redefining Intimacy
Post by: Shana A on September 24, 2010, 09:52:05 AM
Redefining Intimacy
Filed by: Guest Blogger
September 23, 2010 8:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/09/redefining_intimacy.php#more (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/09/redefining_intimacy.php#more)

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Sara Beth Brooks recently completed the Leadership, Organizing, and Action: Leading Change program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is pursuing a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and lives in Sacramento, CA. Sara Beth is publishing a weeklong series on asexuality this week.

It's inevitable: when I come out to someone as asexual they always ask, "So you don't have sex? Ever?"

I usually quip that asexuality is the secret to my success as an activist. People laugh, but there is some truth to it: part of the way I get the intimacy I need is through a community.