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parshallison 3 months
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I just saw that it was translated into Polish by one of Scientific American's sister publications!
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ACES!!! Look at this Scientific American article!!! It makes me genuinely so happy to read. We鈥檙e making it!!!!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/
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parshallison 4 months
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I wrote this article, and I am just blown away by the response it has been receiving. This one was such a labor of love over the last half-year, and I'm so happy that it's reaching the right people. Thank you to everyone sharing their experiences and thoughts in the tags and comments, reading them has been very gratifying 馃挏馃挏馃挏
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ACES!!! Look at this Scientific American article!!! It makes me genuinely so happy to read. We鈥檙e making it!!!!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/
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parshallison 4 months
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ACES!!! Look at this Scientific American article!!! It makes me genuinely so happy to read. We鈥檙e making it!!!!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/
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parshallison 4 months
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In June, I was watching a YouTube video about asexuality when someone mentioned that asexual people aren't subjected to conversion therapy. This didn't sit right with me at all. A quick fact-check Google search quickly sent me down a rabbit hole about how a lack of sexual attraction is often treated as a medical problem to be fixed.
Many interviews and 6 months later, I covered science and medicine's changing attitudes toward asexuality it in a feature article in Scientific American's January 2024 issue! I'm so grateful to everyone who lent their expertise to the article 馃挏
"... Over the past two decades psychological studies have shown that asexuality should be classified not as a disorder but as a stable sexual orientation akin to homosexuality or heterosexuality. Both cultural awareness and clinical medicine have been slow to catch on. It's only recently that academic researchers have begun to look at asexuality not as an indicator of health problems but as a legitimate, underexplored way of being human."
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