In this paper I examine two young adult novels with asexual protagonists-Kathryn Ormsbee’s Tash Hearts Tolstoy (2017) and Claire Kann’s Let’s Talk About Love (2018)-and how their protagonists’ asexual identity is woven into their coming-of-age stories and romance arcs.
This is why-as with all queer identities-it is important to represent and normalise asexuality within fiction, particularly fiction aimed at young people. This can have an especially negative effect on asexual adolescents who are not experiencing the ‘rite of passage’ that is sexual desire and experimentation with sexual relationships.
This societal narrative leaves people on the asexual spectrum-those who do not experience sexual attraction-on the margins and considered abnormal. Sex is considered an intrinsic part of being human, and the development of a relationship with sex and sexuality an intrinsic part of growing up.
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