Free From Desire is a finalist for a Signal Award. If you liked our podcast please vote HERE.Aline always knew they wanted a child. As a teenager, they imagined adopting, having a child with friends, and being a single parent — as if their subc

Single, Asexual, Parent?

Jul 12th, 2023 20m 52s

Free From Desire is a finalist for a Signal Award. If you like our podcast please vote HERE.In this episode, Aline realizes they are a-romantic, which brings another big revelation — they don’t want to wait for a romantic partner to start a fam

The Sex Life of Asexuals

Jul 5th, 2023 18m 48s

In this episode, Aline talks to us about the sex life of asexual people (including their own!). Since accepting their asexuality, they have had to rethink their relationship with intimacy and sexual attraction. They’ve also wrestled with and re

a·sex·u·al·i·ty — noun

Jun 28th, 2023 20m 46s

When Aline discovers the concept of asexuality, they are relieved...and scared. They experience phases of doubt and denial before they can truly understand this term and make it their own. In this episode, they look back on the birth of the co

Can I Be Cured?

Jun 21st, 2023 16m 41s

Aline is afraid of failing in a relationship, so they go to a therapist to make sure they’re not repressing any trauma that “blocks” their sexuality. Aline explores the misconstruction of asexuality by medical and therapeutic communities and ho

Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect

Jun 14th, 2023 23m 33s

Aline loses their virginity, in an effort to be like everyone else and because they want to be “liberated." In this episode, Aline looks back on that first time, and all the subsequent times. They try to understand why they forced themself into

What Is Wrong With Me?

Jun 7th, 2023 28m 47s

Aline thinks back to their childhood and teenage years and remembers how their lack of interest in boys and sex made them an outcast. By the time they were in business school, their absence of sexual desire was astonishing to others, with cowor

Trailer

Apr 25th, 2023 1m 46s

For years, Aline thought “it will eventually come.” They'd even put themselves in uncomfortable situations to try and force it to happen. It never did. They felt isolated, excluded, and ashamed. What is life without experiencing sexual or roman

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