I saw the statement ‘every living thing has sexual desire’ just recently (aimed, of course, at asexual individuals) and it makes me fairly angry. Not just because it’s invalidating and incredibly rude, but because has this person ever met, like, a bee? I mean, that’s literally an animal that comes from a species where the ratio of nonbreeding to breeding individuals is as high as 60000:1.
This sort of knowledge isn’t necessary at all for an asexual human to feel that their identity is valid, of course, but it just cheeses me off when I see smug assholes touting their own ignorance about biology.
(Oh, and bees aren’t the only species where nonreproductive individuals vastly outnumber reproductive individuals. It’s found in creatures from insects to birds to mammals. Also, since the asshole used the phrase ‘every living thing,’ it’d be a good time to point out that when you tally up all life on the planet, the number of sexual species is barely even visible as a sliver on the pie chart. I wrote a whole dang article on the matter.
We can’t quantify whether or not animals that don’t breed feel no sexual desire, but the entire concept that you can’t succeed unless you breed is ludicrous when you examine the success of species such as, say, ants and termites.)
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