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Hey y'all, I'm in touch with a casting director who's looking to do a few shows on atypical relationships and they would like to feature asexuality. I've spoken to the talent scout on the phone and I'm confident he isn't doing this in an exploitative way.

They are looking for couples in committed relationships who would be willing to be filmed. I'm not in a relationship so I can't participate, but the guy I'm talking to knows I have a lot of contacts in the asexual community. People with the following attributes are what he's looking for:

• Asexual person married or in committed relationship with non-asexual person
  
• Or married asexual couples
  
• Between the ages of 25 and 45
  
• United States couples only

The casting director says it is for an episodic documentary style series that is intended to educate an audience on "who asexuals are and how a marriage/partnership might work."

Please reply to this or send me a private message if you're interested or know someone who is, and I can give you the information to get in touch.

My new article "Asexual Relationships" is published in Good Vibrations today. Read about aromantic relationships, asexual/asexual relationships, and mixed-sexuality relationships in the context of asexuality. You might get some helpful tips.

Please do note that Good Vibes is a sex-positive site and they tend to have a lot of explicit article titles and advertisements for sex toys in the sidebars, so if you object to that (or want to view the article in a place where having that on your screen would be inappropriate), please keep this warning in mind.

I was asked to guest vlog for The Sexual Futurist on the topic of whether asexual people have long-term relationships. Please check it out if you're interested!



Please note that the comments so far appear to just be some MRA guy claiming that women are out to trap men in sexless marriages after they've already secured "indentured servitude" from them.

A few weeks ago, I read Jan Morris's 1974 memoir Conundrum, where she discusses her transition from male to female. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Morris, while she never uses the word asexual, appears to lean, on the spectrum of sexual to asexual, towards our side of things. I thought I'd share some passages from Conundrum where she discusses her ace-friendly view of sexuality.
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A few months ago I terminated association with a person I had been LJ friends with for close to 2 years, another (bi-romantic) asexual. I have since picked up the pieces of my ego and made my peace with the situation. His behavior put me through an emotional rollercoster for several weeks. I shared this story on the AVEN website and the response I earned proved to be very beneficial for me. :)
However, I feel I should share this story here in case any other Asexuals are going through a similar situation.

Has anyone here ever been involved with another Asexual? How has that worked out for you?

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A part of me feels as though I shouldn't have said anything at all. I shouldn't have continued to ask him to sit down and have that conversation. That if I had just kept my mouth shut, things would have eventually worked itself out. But I realize that if he's capable of wishing death upon me, lord knows what he's actually capable of doing.

This one's for those of you who have the feeling that if you're asexual, it means you're destined to be alone forever. Guess what? You're wrong! :D

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