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ReliquiaFebruary 3, 2025

Depending on culture maybe. Some cultures put more pressure on people (specially women) to marry, so I'd say in that case there is oppression

VestalVirginFebruary 3, 2025(Edited February 3, 2025)

Yeah, but that's just ordinary patriarchal oppression of women.

I am not asexual, I just haven't met a man I'd want to marry. Forcing me to marry some ugly dude would be oppression just as much as forcing an "asexual" woman into that.

(I, too, would usually not care if people want to call themselves asexual, I just think it is covering up societal and medical problems. If people who find porn disgusting just call themselves asexual, there is no pushback against porn, no one opposes the claims that porn shows how you have to have sex. Same with SSRIs killing people's libidos, if depressed people claim to be asexual, then no one learns about the side effects of SSRIs. Not wanting to have sex can be a result of trauma, or of poor health, and if "asexual" is made an identity one may not question, all those things are covered up.)