No, no, you're definitely on to something. The only two options for combating desexualisation and the denial of sexual agency really are either to completely remove sexuality and write a fundamentally asexual narrative or to embrace sex as simply a part of the human experience whether you're into it or not, no matter who you're into it with.
And even then, the way to write truly asexual narratives is by, again, embracing sexuality as an existant force, because otherwise you're just writing the kind of sexually repressed and sex-negative narratives that kinda got us into this mess. Either way, the only real solution is to stop seeing sex, and people who like sex, and people wanting to have sex, as the enemy.
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No, no, you're definitely on to something. The only two options for combating desexualisation and the denial of sexual agency really are either to completely remove sexuality and write a fundamentally asexual narrative or to embrace sex as simply a part of the human experience whether you're into it or not, no matter who you're into it with.
And even then, the way to write truly asexual narratives is by, again, embracing sexuality as an existant force, because otherwise you're just writing the kind of sexually repressed and sex-negative narratives that kinda got us into this mess. Either way, the only real solution is to stop seeing sex, and people who like sex, and people wanting to have sex, as the enemy.