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“Asexual orientation currently estimated to describe 1 percent of the population. Asexuality is usually defined as the experience of not being sexually attracted to others. Less commonly, it is defined as not valuing sex or sexual attraction enough to pursue it.”   —Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation .   I   My experience was not pleasant, and I want to make that clear from the very beginning. Throughout my youth, I had to go through a number of unpleasant, painful, dark, and even unhealthy situations. To a large extent, these situations were related to my sexuality, but also to many other factors.   My intention is to recount what I experienced on an internal, individual level, primarily, so I will try not to speak about the other people involved in the story. Even so, I know this will be difficult. I ask only one thing of those who read these lines: understanding. This will be a partial truth, but no less true for that. I will speak about my feelings an...

The Transcendence of Eros in the Post-Organic Era Post-sexuality is emerging as a new paradigm of desire in contemporary culture. It does not entail the absence of Eros nor the denial of the body, but rather its radical reconfiguration: an experience in which intimacy, connection, and interdependence shift beyond sex as the central mediator. This article proposes an interdisciplinary reading, articulating phenomena from pop culture, ACE identities, spiritual practices, and kink/BDSM rituals, culminating in a theoretical framework that situates post-sexuality as a living, ethical, and aesthetically relevant phenomenon in the post-organic era. Download Article 1.    Introduction    In the Ghost in the Shell saga—across its films as well as series such as ARISE and Stand Alone Complex —one of the most provocative questions of the post-human era emerges: what happens to desire when the body ceases to be biological? Through its characters—particularly Motoko Kusanagi an...