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Are asexual people not human?
I wasn't trying to imply that. I've edited my post to reflect that I'm speaking generally. Sorry.
Personally I think that asexual people also benefit from sex-positivity and an honest discussion about the wide variety of forms of sexual expression. When we stop treating sex as some dirty taboo thing, and when we start accepting that everybody wants something different out of it (or maybe doesn't want it at all), I think it becomes easier to understand that all different kinds of people exist with different relationships to sex. That's not only OK, but a good thing.
A lot of social ills have come from the idea that people who express different forms of sexuality are wrong, gross, bad, sinful, mentally ill, etc. The sooner we move past that flawed and harmful concept, the better, in my opinion.
No, we're superhuman.