Just as homosexuality exists.

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I was told that because there's lack of scientific evidence of it, it doesn't exist.
• There's little scientific evidence to explain ghosts, yet they certainly exist. Parts of my university are haunted.
• There's no scientific evidence to prove that a god exists, yet billions of people believe in one existing.
• There's little scientific evidence of extraterrestrials, yet there are hundreds of stories encountering them and even some rare physical evidence. Not to mention...It's literally a waste of space to be the only life-sustaining planet with highly intelligent species like us.

Just because there's little scientific evidence of it or there's no logical explanation for it, does not mean it doesn't exist. Science is not an all-knowing field and it does not have an explanation for everything...And this is coming from someone who relies heavily on logic and reasoning.

But let me just break down asexuality into a very simple explanation of it.

• Asexuality has TWO definitions. One is the common definition used in biology and reproduction. (i.e. Sea sponges are asexual because they reproduce by budding.)  However, the other has to do with human sexuality. (Not reproduction. Let's remember to keep those terms separate in this.)

To briefly put it, asexuality (in terms of human sexuality) means a lack of sexual attraction. That's all it is. And believe me, I've tried to be sexually attracted to people. But no matter how hard I forced myself to look at them in a sexual way, it felt like listening to static/white noise. All I got was the urge to cuddle them because they had such an aesthetically-pleasing body and I wanted to touch it because I love human anatomy. But the horny urge to have sex with them...? Nope. Not even a single hint of that feeling.

• There's more than one way to love someone. Friendship love, sexual love, romantic love, sibling love, parental love, etc...Frozen, anyone? "True love" was shown to be sibling-love in that movie. You don't need to have sex with someone to show how much you love them. For me, I adore the shit out of a best friend I've known since I was 6. She has this very comforting atmosphere that she radiates with, that I'm insanely attracted to, where I'm so much happier when she's present. I could be depressed, but as soon as I see her, I'm immediately better. And because I'm so attached to her, I would protect her to the best that I can, and I would go to the ends of the Earth for her. If anything were to happen to her, I would be absolutely devastated. This girl is like my soul sister, the sister I never had.
...I just wouldn't get into bed with her, nor have any sort of romance with her. The way I feel about her is like the way Agnes is about unicorns in Despicable Me. I love her to death, but not in any romantic/sexual way.
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• Relationships don't have to involve sex. Personally, I don't give a shit about sex. I like it, but I honestly don't care if it's in my relationship or not. I actually prefer cuddling/snuggling/nuzzling over romance or sex anyway. I'm also terrified of childbirth, so I'm not really too fond on the idea of getting pregnant either, even though I do love babies. If science developed a way to make test-tube babies without ever putting them in me, that would be awesome. Otherwise, I'm stuck with adopting them because I am not going to get cut open or stuck with IVs. The least I can tolerate is vaccinations.

• Some of us still have sex drives and some don't. I still have a sex drive because yes, I still get horny. This is why some of us still do masturbate. Because how the fuck else are we supposed to satisfy those urges when we don't have a partner to help us? And yes, this also means that some of us still date people and some don't. Again, relationships do not have to involve sex.

Bottom line, asexuality does exist, it does not mean we're a plant or we can clone ourselves (although that would be really cool), and it sometimes falls under the queer-umbrella (to me, at least).

But when it comes to sexuality, I believe that you won't know if it's real or not if you don't do a little internal digging of yourself and your relationships.

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