And us sluts? Do we just die off?

[yvannairie]

Spoilers for Death Stranding

Oh boy there was quite a judgey document in-game that talked about how pre and immediately post-Death Stranding, more and more people were identifying as aspec to one or other degree, and people in general had grown more socially averse and disinterested in intimate relationships, and it left a very bad taste in my mouth, because the argument seemed to be that people were doing more of this and creating more categories of aspec experience to navigate the stressful and socially isolating environments in the post-apocalypse.

Which, first of all -- not wanting to fuck isn't why people are asexual, even while asexuality might lead to a disinterest in sex and intimacy. And second -- what about all of us who use sex to burn off stress? What about everyone whose sex drive goes up when they're stressed? Also why would being able to form romantic attachments to anyone be a sign that your capacity for intimacy is diminished (because the article mentioned "panromantic" people specifically as being a subset of this new majority asexual world")

It might be nothing, but being aspec myself, that was quite "doubt.jpg"