Episodes
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A Diagnostic History of Asexual Medicalization
From Catholic writings to early physicians and Victorian psychiatry to modern day.
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"It's not my job to educate you"
And other silly things allies have internalized that make us long for ignorant (yet sincere) questions.
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How to not be Acephobic
We've discussed these rules before, but due to a series of conversations we've had recently, they're on the top of our mind and we thought an episode dedicated solely to them was warranted.
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r/AmITheAsshole? Asexuality Edition #8
Somehow, it's been over a year since we've waded into this subreddit.
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A New Book Series with an Ace Protagonist! ft. Sarah Moon
At long last we are joined by Sarah Moon to discuss her personal journey with Asexuality and neurodivergence, Japanese translating, and her debut novel, Secrets of the Yllime: Incorporeal.
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What we wish we knew before getting married and buying a house
Don't get scammed, friends!
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Asexual Representation in Heartstopper Forever
The Heartstopper TV adaptation ends with a brief movie finale.
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Laughing at the offensive PR emails we get: Part 2
From embargoed press releases to scam products to charting on podcast platforms, there's never a dull day in our overly-inflated email inbox.
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The Good Place
A masterpiece of television worthy of an Ace reading.
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Sex is neither a right nor a need
Although this isn't the end of the conversation, this is the final episode for our Consent Month. We round out the discussion by explaining why all consent models will fall flat until we can properly unpack widespread societal norms that perpetuate rape culture.
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Does "Enthusiastic Consent" Serve the Asexual Community?
Week 3 of consent month! We're finally starting the complicated conversation about enthusiastic consent and how this model doesn't do enough for a variety of Aspecs.
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Voice Memo Guy
Week 2 of Consent Month, so OF COURSE we have to talk about the voice memo guy discourse.
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Obsession
August is officially Consent Month over here in our little podcast corner. We're kicking off week 1 talking about the movie Obsession.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A masterpiece of storytelling! Even though it doesn't specifically include an ace or aro character, it resonates with many aspecs when it defies romance tropes in a way that feels indicative of allo writers making fun of themselves in a humorous and self-aware way.
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r/BestofRedditorUpdates: Asexuality Edition #3
Unfortunately, more of you are going to listen to this episode than last week's.
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Getting arrested for feeding hungry people- Food Not Bombs
Courtney Vs. One Dozen Cops. A personal story and a broader message.
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Asexuality has been criminalized
Although there is a large history of anti-ace sentiment leeching into laws and policy across many countries, Asexuality as an identity has now been outright criminalized for the first time in history, that we know of.
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Our Ace Community
A tableau of Ace Joy from our personal experience. An in-person finale for our 3+year-long all-ace D&D campaign.
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Ace Moments
Here's a very casual chit chat about some of our funniest asexual moments. May they be relatable or at least funny!
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Aromantic, Asexual Representation? Project Hail Mary
Is Ryland Grace AroAce? Either way, let's dig into why this movie resonates so heavily with this community.
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The Case for More Pride Emojis (or, Why the Elephant is an Ace Icon)
Due to Unicode's acephobia, Courtney's mom can't send us a proper "Happy Pride Month" text and that's why the elephant should forever be enshrined as an iconic symbol of Ace history.
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Beware the acephobia of drunken St. Louis women!
Two nights in St. Louis, two drunk women who said exactly the wrong thing to us. A goofy little story time.
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r/Relationships: Asexuality Edition #2
You request more r/Relashionships? We read more r/Relashionships!
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US Counterterrorism Strategy targets anti-fascists and people who are "radically pro-transgender"
Welp...the US government thinks we're terrorists now...
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We were invited to an interview in LA...then they booked Orion Taraban instead
A podcast about love could have spoken to an us, an Asexual couple going on 12 years of marriage. Instead, they spoke to a red-pilled psychologist who tells women that in order to keep a man, they need to be younger, hotter, and have more "cheap" sex with them.
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Human Rights Campaign finds Aces face sharper declines in acceptance than other LGBTQ+ adults
According to the HRC's 2025 Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey, Asexuals are dealing with sharper declines in acceptance, outness, and visibility than LGBTQ+ adults overall.
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Asexual Representation: Heartbreak High Season 3
The 3rd and FINAL season of Ca$h and his mixed-orientation ace/allo relationship.
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We tried playing a "Spicy D&D Date Night for Couples"
...And it was TERRIBLE!
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Life is Strange is stringing us along...
Life is Strange: Reunion recently dropped! But coming off of Double Exposure, we're left asking...where is Diamond Washington? WHERE is the continued Ace Rep??
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Weird Allo Reality Shows 5
For 2026's first round of weird allo reality shows, we're comin in hot with commentary on Age of Attraction! Plus an honorary mention of Building the Band, even though it's not technically a dating show.
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r/Relationships: Asexuality Edition
It's been almost a year since we've waded into a new subreddit, so let's gooooo!
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Charlie Kirk & Scott Galloway
The 3 P's and the 3 M's are two sides of the same right wing coin.
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Alpine Divorce
Climbers are rightfully discussing the case of a man who left his girlfriend to die on Austria's tallest mountain. Notably missing from this conversation, however, is naming the underlying abuse and ableism inherent to walking ahead of your partner- even in situations that are not as obviously…
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What's happening in Kansas right now...
Kansas, you are our home...and we are SO disappointed in you right now.
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Asexuality in Manga 5: Aromantic (love) story & And Another Lovely Day
The last manga & webcomic episode in Royce's latest little reading kick! Let us know what else we should cover and maybe we'll get to it in another couple of years...
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The Date of the Union 2026: The Great Dating Recession
Nobody wants to date anymore!
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Asexuality in Manga 4: My Astilbe, Shades of A, & She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat
We're back for another round of Ace Rep in manga and web comics! Today we talk about My Astilbe, Shades of A, and we revisit She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat.
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The Rise of Platonic Co-Parenting
More people should be aware that is possibility. Aces & Aros have historically already been finding family structures to accommodate this desire, but now? There's an app for that.
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Asexuality in Manga 3: I Married My Best Friend to Shut my Parents Up, Dom & Mor, and More!
Today we talk Ace Rep in manga and web comics! For the first time we discuss She Love to Cook and She Loves to Eat, I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, Dom & Mor, and Clinic of Horrors. Plus we also give an update on one of Royce's favorites, I Want to be a Wall.
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Saving America by Saving the Family (Part 2)
Wouldn't it be great if this were the last time we ever had to pay any attention to the Heritage Foundation?
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The Heritage Foundation's latest horrifying report: Saving America by Saving the Family (Part 1)
Who remembers back in 2022 when 83 religious, right-wing organizations condemned the Respect for Marriage Act while warning about the dangers of "platonic marriages"? WE DO. Well, coming off of their Project 2025 successes, here is the natural conclusion of that rhetoric.
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Alastor in Hazbin Hotel Season 2: The REAL reason he's problematic Ace Rep
Alastor is problematic asexual representation, not solely because he's evil. He's partially a problem because the rep is not obvious enough in the show itself for viewers who are not already entrenched in the fandom... But the biggest issue of all lies in the historically racist stereotyping that...
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Alastor in Hazbin Hotel Season 2: Are the TV show and fandom entirely different artistic mediums?
Watching season 2 after a year of reflection following season 1, we have some more thoughts about how to interpret Alastor in terms of Asexual and/or Aromantic representation. But we've got even more points to make next week, so stay tuned!
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The MarketplAce for Aro and Ace-owned small businesses
Just a little light housekeeping to close out the year! What is the MarketplAce? And what isn't it? Should you visit it and shop there? (Hint: YES you should!)
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r/BestofRedditorUpdates: Asexuality Edition #2
We have an UPDATE on one of our favorite stories from r/AmITheAsshole Asexuality Edition. Plus, several new "best of" stories.
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Straight Women are Embarrassed by their Boyfriends.
Are straight women concealing their boyfriends out of embarrassment on social media? According to a Vogue article, it's apparently either do that or feature them heavily in order to go viral and gain social clout, so...pick your poison.
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Aromantic & Asexual Representation in Children's Books
Is Aro rep beating out Ace rep in picture books?? Today we talk about the flag-forward type of representation in children's books Under One Rainbow and Grandad's Pride.
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"But what if they stop wanting sex!?" The alarmist media coverage of teens taking antidepressants.
Today we discuss a recent article about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) from the New York Times. This is simply one recent example within an increasing wave of backlash against often life-saving medical care that reinforces its point by medicalizing sexuality and demonizing queer people.
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Scott Galloway needs to keep the word Asexual out of his mouth
The man who once said that Asexual men are the most dangerous people in the world and claimed that college protests are a result of students not having enough sex is on a press tour, hitting all of the major news outlets and podcasts, calling Asexual males "a new species". But in using this...
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GLAAD's 2025 media report ignores the precious few Asexual characters
GLAAD released their 2024-2025 "Where we are on TV" report. They cite only 2 asexual characters on TV this year (a decrease from last), but unfortunately ignore key details about them, making this report underdeveloped and poorly edited at best and inaccurate and dismissive at worst.
About this show
Asexual married couple Courtney and Royce talk about all things Asexuality. By discussing queer culture and history, we’ll explore the topics of life, love, and sex through an Ace lens. Full transcripts and show notes on theacecouple.com.
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The Ace Couple