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What are some good novels that have an asexual protagonist?
Anonymous No.24867779 [Report] >>24877303
your diary desu
Anonymous No.24867781 [Report] >>24877301
>>24867761 (OP)
Nigga if you want to read about the mentality ill just go on a03/fanfiction.net/watpad/webtoons/
Anonymous No.24867784 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
The Story of the Eye
Anonymous No.24867790 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Can zoomers really not self insert into fiction unless it matches their "lived experience" and somebody "looks like them," the whole fucking point of fiction is to learn.
Anonymouṡ No.24867878 [Report] >>24868168
>>24867761 (OP)
Anonymous No.24867898 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
The sound and the fury, but only 2 of the 3 are asexual.
Anonymous No.24867903 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Any book featuring a mentally ill woman
Anonymouṡ No.24868041 [Report] >>24868168
>>24867761 (OP)
King Arthur, told from Merlin's perspective. There's this, then The Hollow Hills, then The Last Enchantment.

Merlin is basically a "sex will destroy my power" celibate wizard type character for the bulk of the trilogy, although he does have a romantic relationship in the last book.
Anonymouṡ No.24868051 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)

Mattie is only 14 during the main part of the book, but even after the timeskip she says she never messed around with having a husband or any of that stuff, so I think she qualifies on all counts.
Anonymous No.24868062 [Report] >>24868168
Sherlock Holmes
Anonymouṡ No.24868087 [Report] >>24869307
>>24867761 (OP)
And all the other Jeeves & Wooster books of course.

In almost every one Bertie finds himself accidentally engaged to some ghastly girl and needs Jeeves to rescue him and return him to his idyllic bachelor existence.
Anonymouṡ No.24868114 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
An untypical work but MT thought it was his best book. If accounts are to be believed Joan was very attractive and not unfriendly but somehow made it clear that sex wasn't ever going to be an option for her and the soldiers all just accepted this. She would have been someone worth meeting I think.
Anonymouṡ No.24868145 [Report] >>24874622
>>24867761 (OP)
Doesn't matter whether you think Ahab or Ishmael* is the main character; there's no sex in the book. Yes, I know what some /lit/ anons think happened between chapters 3 & 4. But you have to remember that some /lit/ anons are insane.

* It's Ahab.
Anonymouṡ No.24868152 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Not a very good advertisement for asexuality since he's a complete psycho but I guess he counts.
Anonymous No.24868162 [Report]
some japan-
>good
nevermind
Anonymouṡ No.24868167 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Protagonist is asexual for good physical reasons.
Anonymous No.24868168 [Report] >>24876948
>>24868041
>Merlin is basically a "sex will destroy my power" celibate wizard type
Asexual is not wanting sex because they don't really have a sexdrive. The "sex will destroy my power" sounds like he'd probably have a regular sexlife but has to avoid sex for one particular reason.
>romantic relationship in the last book
Again, sounds like he's straight but is forced to avoid having sex for particular reasons. That's not Asexuality.
>>24867878
>>24868062
Very much. I think Sherlock is even questioned at some point about "Men" and he says something about being able to tell when other people, both Men and Women, are supposed to be attractive but that he personally is never found anyone attractive.
Anonymous No.24869297 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
My Twisted World by: Elliot Rodger
Anonymous No.24869307 [Report]
>>24868087
It's anachronistic to call Bertie (or Jeeves) asexual. He falls in love from time to time. Wodehouse just preferred to write a more fundamentally innocent world than really exists.
Anonymous No.24869321 [Report] >>24870216
>>24867761 (OP)
>asexual
Do you mean "asexual" as in they never feel attraction to the opposite sex, or "asexual" in that they don't have sex in the book?
Anonymous No.24870216 [Report] >>24872447
>>24869321
Asexual means you don’t feel attraction to any sex (the practical antonym of bisexual).
>Do you mean "asexual" as in they never feel attraction to the opposite sex, or "asexual" in that they don't have sex in the book?
The former implies the latter except in cases of rape or experimentation / self-discovery.
Anonymous No.24870233 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Can I interest you in some yuri manga?
Anonymous No.24870825 [Report]
You can read most books pretending the character is the opposite sex, a different race, DDD cup sized, YOU, a sex machine with a giant dick or an asexual. Try it.
Anonymous No.24870828 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Anonymous No.24871155 [Report] >>24871172
>>24867761 (OP)
Canonically? Loveless by Alice Oseman if you can stomach 2020s YA writing.
I personally think Jean Valjean from Les Miserables is aromantic asexual because we go through practically his whole adult life and he never once complains about never being able to find love due to being on the run from the law, and it's never implied there to be romance between Valjean and Fantine.
Anonymous No.24871172 [Report]
>>24871155
wow maybe ill read le miserables for once that sounds kinda chill but isn;t it long and normie tho
Anonymous No.24872447 [Report] >>24873011 >>24873284
>>24870216
Asexual literally means you don't have a sex. You're neither male nor female.
We should resist the debauchery of the language by identity politics.
Anonymous No.24872450 [Report] >>24872568 >>24873011
Anonymous No.24872465 [Report] >>24872533
>have had sex
>enjoy sex, not asexual
>still think most media should be 'asexual' because sex isn't interesting in the way most things are. it's fun to do, sure, but it's uninteresting when other people do it
what's my problem
Anonymous No.24872533 [Report] >>24872558
>>24872465
>it's uninteresting when other people do it
The multi-billion dollar porn industry suggests otherwise.
I ignore women No.24872553 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
Blue Period
Anonymous No.24872558 [Report]
>>24872533
porn isn't interesting as such. not in the way a novel is, which is my intended meaning of the word in that post.
Anonymous No.24872568 [Report] >>24872579
>>24872450
Shes based but isnt she a billionaire?
Anonymous No.24872579 [Report]
>>24872568
a billionaire blairite
don't mistake her reactionary stance on LGBT issues for being on your side.
Anonymous No.24873011 [Report] >>24873492
>>24872447
>words can only have one definition
>a word’s meaning can never change over time
dude you’re such a fucking pseud, it’s embarrassing
>>24872450
all the money in the world and she spends her every waking moment on xitter
miserable old cunt, she is
Anonymous No.24873284 [Report] >>24873492
>>24872447
>Asexual literally means you don't have a sex.
Bisexual means you have both sexes then.
>You're neither male nor female.
You are mistaking it for Agendered.
Asexual (in this context) means the oposite of Bisexual.
Anonymous No.24873492 [Report] >>24874559 >>24874742
>>24873011
>what is etymology
>>24873284
Gender is the same thing as sex, but it's no good telling xu that ...
Anonymous No.24874559 [Report] >>24876364
>>24873492
>what is etymology
here’s a better question: what is an etymological fallacy? don’t worry, i already looked it up for you:
>an argument of equivocation, arguing that a word is defined by its etymology, and that its customary usage is therefore incorrect
oh look, it’s the exact thing you’re engaging in now!
Anonymous No.24874622 [Report]
>>24868145
Someone skipped the squeezing chapter
Anonymous No.24874742 [Report]
>>24873492
>Gender is the same thing as sex, but it's no good telling xu that ...
I'm not talking about none of that shit anon, you claimed "Asexual" means not having a sex, yes that's true in some contexts (Asexual reproduction, some species are Asexual in that sense) but I'm talking about "Asexual" the sexual orientation, that is not feeling sexual atraction, the way "Bisexual" is a person whose sexually attracted to both sexes, not someone claiming to have both sexual organs.
does SAGE go in the name field? No.24875082 [Report] >>24875640
>>24867761 (OP)
in truth there are none 'cause asexuality is fake you fucking chump.
Anonymous No.24875640 [Report] >>24876344
>>24875082
>in the full breadth and diversity of the human experience, there are no people who do not experience sexual attraction because… there just aren’t, okay?!?!
Anonymous No.24876344 [Report] >>24876622
>>24875640
Either the attraction they experience is suppressed into the unconscious, or they have a glandular deficiency.
In our generally neurotic age, I'm going with the former. In general, all para-sexuals are just neurotics.
Anonymous No.24876364 [Report] >>24876622
>>24874559
>its customary usage
There's nothing customary about the modern usage of "asexual." It's a name for a tribe of zoomer snowflakes.
Anonymous No.24876622 [Report] >>24876697
>>24876344
>>24876364
Asexuality in healthy men and women has been described in medical literature going back to at least the 1800s.
Anonymous No.24876697 [Report] >>24876927
>>24876622
I don't buy it. The sex drive is innate. If you haven't got one, there's something wrong with you.
Your genes want to fuck, even if you think you don't.
Anonymous No.24876927 [Report] >>24877068
>>24867761 (OP)
I'm confused by what asexual means at this point because I've asked multiple people what the fuck asexual means and they all have different answers but we're supposed to consider them all valid definitions for the sake of politeness.

>asexuality means the lack of a sex drive
>no, it also means the lack of sexual attraction
>and it also means the lack of sexual desire
>and it can also means the lack of sexual arousal

Which is weird because generally, people who claim to be asexual are using it as a smokescreen for other issues, namely

>coping with sexual trauma
>coping for why people don't find them sexy
>coping for why they can't get laid
>feeling ashamed of their sex drive (and then using it to hide that they're huge perverts)
>feeling ashamed of being gay/bisexual

>>24876697
See, that's what "asexuality" is SUPPOSED to mean, the lack of a sex drive. But although it seems impossible, a non-existent or inactive sex drive is something that occurs in the human population
>women tranquilized by SSRIs (getting their hormones fucked)
>autistic people
>people undergoing significant stress
>completely random ordinary people

Even some animals under observation have been observed to just lack a sex drive even when they're not facing extreme stress or are compromised in any particular way. Nature is just wack.
Anonymous No.24876948 [Report] >>24877046
>>24868168
I always thought Sherlock Holmes had a touch of Aspergers
Anonymous No.24877046 [Report]
>>24876948
>Aspergers
Same.
Anonymous No.24877068 [Report]
>>24876927
It really isn’t all that confusing. Sexual orientation is literally just how one’s sexual desires are oriented. If you’re heterosexual, your sexual desires are oriented towards what is “hetero” (i.e. different): male —> female, female —>; ditto for homosexuals (“homo” meaning same): male —> male, female —> female; bisexuals (“bi” referring to two or both): male —> male & female, female —> male & female; and finally, asexual, then means one’s sexual desires are not oriented (as the prefix “a” means not), or, perhaps it is less confusing to say that one’s sexual desires are oriented to neither sexes or no genders: male —> nil, female —> nil.
Anonymous No.24877301 [Report] >>24877395
>>24867781
I fucking love Ao3
Anonymous No.24877303 [Report]
>>24867761 (OP)
you dia~

>>24867779
oh ffs
Anonymous No.24877395 [Report]
>>24877301
based
Also a good book with asexual character would be murderbot diaries. Main character gets actively disgusted at the idea of sex.