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fandomsecrets2012-06-22 06:42 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-06-23 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)There is a huge difference in canon putting a by-all-accounts-asexual character in a sexual relationship or a by-all-accounts-gay character in a straight relationship (unless they're canonically bi, of course, and the straight relationship isn't used to erase their past or imply that their same-sex relationships/interests were just a phase/the like), because that's erasing asexual and gay visibility, and someone shipping against canon. If the reasoning is that the character being asexual or gay is wrong/gross/unnatural/such or straight-out denying canon, then, yes, it sure as hell is problematic, but if it's just because you happen to like the idea of an asexual character being in a sexual relationship with a particular character (also, you can have sexual relationships and still be asexual) or a gay character in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, it's not really offensive. Sure, more LGBTQIA+ visibility in canon is always a good thing, but ships are often based on very simple and silly reasons, so it's not really all the serious.
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I just wanted to clarify that while asexual people can have sexual relationships, for a variety of complex reasons (personal experience, here) there's a pretty big difference between an asexual person entering a sexual relationship for reasons other than sexual attraction, and an asexual person just suddenly deciding they experience asexual attraction. (If you did this without erasure of that character's past, and without making it something that they now experience all the time, I'd go for it being demisexual and that's cool too, just saying there's a difference.)
Basically, I don't care if people write asexual characters as sexually interested, have at it, but I twitch a bit when they say it's still asexual representation without really knowing how asexual sexual relationships work and not doing the research. (And I don't mind if people want to ask me, either, I'd rather they got it right.)
Example of this: Ten bedding the Virgin Queen because he's about to die and wants his name writ large on history = an asexual reason for having sex. Eleven bedding River Song because she's just so smexy omigosh = a sexual reason for having sex.