Asexuality — the experience of little or no sexual attraction — and aromanticism — the experience of little or no romantic attraction — challenge the assumption that desire is the universal human default, the engine of the examined life. These identities have existed across all cultures and histories, often invisibly, often pressured by a world that insists something must be wrong or missing. Their emergence into legibility is a reminder that the full range of human experience is wider than any dominant norm accounts for.
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