History Main / AsexualitY

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' Cedric regularly proclaims himself as this, also being a rather prudish (or Sex-Repulsed) version of this trope, due to regularly showing disgust at romantic or sexual situations.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-w4_aAaqmA Varys tells Oberyn he's asexual]], and always has been, even before [[EunuchsAreEvil he got castrated]]. He abhors what desire can lead to because so many people scheme for power only to fail because of sexual desires.

** Light turns down women left and right including a major supermodel. He only seems to ever date women when they're useful to his schemes. He uses a PornStash to distract people who are surveilling him, but he describes porn as boring. The degree of FoeYay he has with L makes him border on AmbigiouslyGay at some points, though.

* In ''Film/BeingThere'', the main character, Chance the Gardener, has, due to his sheltered upbringing and his [[{{Manchild}} child-like mind]], no real knowledge of sex, and when confronted with the subject he shows no interest in it whatsoever. Hilarity ensures when Eve, who is very much attracted to him, tries to seduce him, but Chance is much more interested in watching television. When she asks him what he "likes", as in what he likes ''sexually'', Chance answers that he "likes to watch" referring to the television. Eve, believing that this means that Chance is into voyeurism, starts to mastubate next to him, completely missing that Chance has turned his attention back to the television and doesn't pay any mind to what she is doing. In another scene, Chance also proves completely oblivious when a gay man attempts to proposition him.

* In ''Film/BeingThere'', the main character, Chance the Gardener, has due to his sheltered upbringing and his [[{{Manchild}} child-like mind]], no real knowledge of sex, and when confronted with the subject he shows no interest in it whatsoever. Hilarity ensures when Eve, who is very much attracted to him, tries to seduce him, but Chance is much more interested in watching television. When she asks him what he "likes", as in what he likes ''sexually'', Chance answers that he "likes to watch" referring to the television. Eve, believing that this means that Chance is into voyeurism, starts to mastubate next to him, completely missing that Chance has turned his attention back to the television and doesn't pay any mind to what she is doing. In another scene, Chance also proves completely oblivious when a gay man attempts to proposition him.

* ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'': Sherlock Holmes says having a girlfriend is "not really my area", he considers himself "married to [his] work", and tells Watson, "I am flattered by your interest, [but] I am really not looking for anyone." Steven Moffat said in an interview 'He's happy being Sherlock Holmes... other people might have a problem with him being asexual, he doesn't have any problem with it, he's fine.'

* ''ComicBook/{{Valhalla}}'': Loki expresses his lack of interest repeatedly throughout the series. The only times that he tries to seduce someone or expresses his love for someone it's a matter of [[BlatantLies blatant lies]] as he is really after something else altogether, be it winning a bet or avoiding getting beaten to a pulp by the other gods for his misdeeds.

* ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'': Dexter Morgan is uninterested in sex but willing enough to keep his wife, Rita, convinced that he's a normal man.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20141007.html According to]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Princess Voluptua]] and her race the Nemesites don't have much interest because they live 2000 years. Notably, this seems to leave them open to developing [[InterspeciesRomance romantic feelings for aliens,]] based on personality rather than physical attraction.

* Ibrahim Helsing ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfIbrahimHelsing'' identifies as asexual.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' Cedric regularly proclaims himself as this, also being a rather prudish version of this trope, due to regularly showing disgust at romantic or sexual situations.

** Rowling has also confirmed that Voldemort is asexual and aromantic, having never loved anything but power and no-one but himself. [[spoiler:He had sex with Bellatrix Lestrange as revealed in ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', but this is solely to [[HeirClubForMen produce an heir]].]]
* ''{{Literature/Herland}}'': The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for them, sex is unnecessary.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Light turns down women left and right including a major supermodel. He only seems to ever date women when they're useful to his schemes. He uses a PornStash to distract people who are surveilling him, but he describes porn as boring. The degree of FoeYay he has with L makes him border on AmbigiouslyGay at some points, though.

** Three Olympians are described as not being merely sworn virgins, but as the ''only entities in the Universe'' over whom Aphrodite has no power. For reference, she can even sway ''Zeus'' (helping Hera to do so during the Trojan War).

** Artemis, goddess of hunting and patron of virgin girls, DoesNotLikeMen and thus asked her father, Zeus, to let her remain a virgin; her followers, mostly female, are likewise chaste. One legend says that Artemis fell in love with Orion and was considering abandoning her vow, which is why [[KnightTemplarBigBrother her twin brother, Apollo, arranged his death]].
** Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, just seems disinterested; unlike the above, there aren't even any myths where she considers romance.
** Hestia, goddess of the hearth, is described as having no interest in "Aphrodite's works." When Apollo and Poseidon both tried to marry her, she instead swore an IntrinsicVow to remain a maiden, for which Zeus granted her the honor of receiving the first offering at every mortal household sacrifice.
*** These three goddesses are described as not being merely sworn virgins, but as the ''only entities in the Universe'' over whom Aphrodite has no power. For reference, she can even sway ''Zeus'' (helping Hera to do so during the Trojan War).

* ''Webcomic/MagIsa'': [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/155 Claudita is obsessed with Eman but not in a sexual way...]]

* Featured in ''[[http://muertitos.comicgenesis.com/d/20080515.html Muertitos]]''.

In fiction, you encounter tropes such as EveryoneIsGay, NoBisexuals, EveryoneIsBi, AnythingThatMoves, or even ExtremeOmnisexual. You hear SillyLoveSongs about IntercourseWithYou, and see {{Love Dodecahedron}}s, {{Kiss Kiss Slap}}ping, {{Slap Slap Kiss}}ing, and oodles of {{Shipping}}.

'''[[AC:Note:]]''' Only include someone if they are ''explicitly'' asexual. They don't have to use the ''word'' asexual, but it needs to be pretty apparent. No AlternativeCharacterInterpretation. Also remember that while they overlap frequently in fiction, asexuality and having NoSocialSkills are not the same thing. Finally, this shouldn't be confused with characters who physically CannotHaveSexEver - such characters may or may not still have sexual ''desires'' and/or romantic feelings, regardless of whether they can express them.

* In ''[[Fanfic/FallBackNineteenForty Fall Back - 1940]]'', Tom Riddle is strongly implied to be this.

** Discussed in Loop 152.10, when Cheerilee is filling out her annual teacher's license renewal forms. One of the required spots is "sexuality", and "asexual" isn't listed as an option. (Not that she qualifies anyway - she calls herself "a low-libido heterosexual with some bisexual tendencies and a preference but not requirement for romantic partners").

---> Esther wasn't interested in Hiccup, or interested in anybody, really. Oh, Hiccup was attractive to look upon, in the way that a fine painting or other piece of artwork was beautiful. He was much like the various pieces of art scattered around the chief's house in that fashion, she supposed. But the fabled 'stirring of the loins' which supposedly heralded desire was something she'd never experienced. Not with Dan, not with descriptions from other women about their husbands, not even the other night when she'd overheard Hiccup, Astrid, and Wulfhild. She'd been in the chieftain's hut, looking after Valka and Asta while reviewing a book for the King, all the while doing her best to not hear the trio making love in their bedroom—which had been, as far as Esther could tell, their first time since the births of their daughters, with all of enthusiasm that implied.

** In the novels, Clan members from the same "sibko roster"--implied to be brothers and sisters, although technically related only by growing up in the same "batch"--''do'' have non-reproductive sex as routine bonding. The first human mercenary [[spoiler:Phelan Kell]] captured in battle against the Clans falls in love with a Clanwoman, and is horrified to discover that she is sleeping with his most vitriolic rival [[spoiler:Vlad Ward]], on ''both'' the sibling-squick angle as well as the cheating angle. [[spoiler:Anastasius Focht]] tries objecting that the Clans' culture has diverged for hundreds of years from that of the rest of humanity and, somehow, that this makes it fine.

* ''Webcomic/GreyIs'': Black is asexual- since childhood, he's claimed to have no interest in girls. He does, however, intend to be a dad, [[http://greyismanga.com/comic/chapter-12-page-02 his plan is for White to marry a girl and give him the kids]].

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* Shouko Tanimoto of ''LightNovel/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' repeatedly asserts that she has no interest in dating anyone or having any relationship other than friendship with anyone. Over the course ofthe novels, she spends years repeatedly insisting she's happy single.

* In ''Manga/OurDreamsAtDusk'', [[NoNameGiven "Someone"]] is revealed near the end to be asexual. She's fine with living a quiet single life while helping out other people from sexual minorities through her club. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Also, she may or may not have supernatural powers.]]

* Izutsumi of ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' outright states that she has no interest in sex. When dealing with succubi, they attempt to offer her a [[ParentalSubstitute mother figure]] rather than a prospective sexual partner.

* ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': Max openly states that he doesn't like girls. He doesn't seem to show any interest in guys either. At one point he even said that he views a sex drive as nothing more than a nuisance distracting him from his most favorite of things… violence. In one of the video games, a time-traveling incident ends up reversing this and turning him into a CasanovaWannabe, but he's soon back to normal.

* [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Demons]] in ''Literature/{{the Bartimaeus Trilogy}}'' are asexual but certainly are aware that humans are ''not'' often asexual. They use this to their advantage as much as they possibly can, distracting or disturbing the magicians who summon them with various attractive forms that may or may not match the spirit's actual gender (insofar as they have one). Bartimaeus remarks at one point in ''The Ring of Solomon'' that his repertoire of forms is pretty well nothing but horrible monsters and pretty girls - though this was long before he met Ptolemy, who became one of the very humans he ever actually liked, who became his ShapeshifterDefaultForm for most of the rest of his life (until the last book of the original trilogy, where he took to using the form of Kitty to guilt-trip Nathaniel, who thought she'd died in a HeroicSacrifice).

* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': Breq is the last surviving WetwareBody of a spaceship [[ArtificialIntelligence AI]]; although she appreciates some human pleasures, sex and romance are definitely not among them. It's uncommon but unremarkable in the FreeLoveFuture setting, and she's happy to form strong friendships with [[AFatherToHisMen the soldiers under her command]].

** Artemis is uninterested in sex or romance--notably, the series' take on the Orion myth says that he fell for her, but never implies that she reciprocated, only that Apollo ''feared'' that she might. Her Hunters are also celibate, and Zoe seems asexual/aromantic, but invitations have also been given to Annabeth and Thalia despite both liking boys. ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' also introduce Hemithea and Josephine, former Hunters who [[LesYay fell in love with each other]] and were allowed to leave the group on good terms.

* In Sheridan Hay's ''The Secret of Lost Things'', the character Oscar is stated to have no romantic or sexual interest in anyone of any gender--unfortunately for the heroine, who's in love with him.

* ''Literature/{{Threadbare}}'': For multiple types of beings:
** {{Golem}}s have no interest in or understanding of sex and sexuality.
** The DemonicPossession... Well, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]]-possessed, dolls known as "Doll haunters", no longer have an interest in sex and sexuality, but they at least understand it.
* Ariel Corta in ''Literature/LunaNewMoon'' is asexual. She is still quite sexually active, in a sort of asexual version of [[AllGaysArePromiscuous All Gays Are Promiscuous]].

* ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'': Sherlock Holmes says having a girlfriend is "not really my area", he considers himself "married to [his] work", and tells Watson, "I am flattered by your interest, [but] I am really not looking for anyone." Steven Moffat said in an interview 'He's happy being Sherlock Holmes... other people might have a problem with him being asexual, he doesn't have any problem with it, he's fine.'
* ''Series/SexEducation'': Florence, a minor character, is asexual.
* ''Series/SpinCity'': City Hall’s supply clerk is immune to the charms of Nikki, Janelle and Carter. His sole passion in life appears to be his VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}.

** The Erinyes, more commonly known as the Furies, were also typically depicted as virgin goddesses, with one of their divine epithets even being "Aei Parthenous"--meaning "eternal virgins". One of them, Tisiphone, ''did'' try to strike up a romance with a mortal man (which didn't end well), though that doesn't proclude the possibility of her being a RomanticAsexual.

* Occasionally ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' puts in an asexual NPC: Skywin Freeling during the ''Strange Aeons'' adventure path, for example.

* In ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'', Sam is asexual and has aphenphosmphobia - a social phobia of close relationships, being touched, and open spaces. He had once had a sexual relationship with a woman that resulted in a pregnancy, but it had been hard for him at the time and resulted in disaster. In the universe of the game, asexuality is described as being a sexual orientation that began to emerge at a time of social isolation, which is not a statement that is without a grain of truth ''or'' without a mass of UnfortunateImplications.

** Agent 47 is normally portrayed to be asexual, though there are some good reasons--number one, he is a clone engineered to be the perfect killer, and two--he has almost no social interactions with anyone at all except for Diana. Of note is a scene in the first game in which 47 rescues a Chinese prostitute from a brothel in Hong Kong. When thanking him, she kisses him goodbye--to which he actually recoils in disgust.

* Parvati from ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' is explicitly identified as biromantic asexual, and has had relationships in her past fail because of her aversion to sex. She is, however, very much interested in a romantic relationship, and a large part of her character arc consists of setting her up with someone who will respect her disinterest in sex.

* K and Bartholomew are both revealed to be asexual in ''VisualNovel/ANightmaresTrip'''s credits.

* ''VisualNovel/LoveAndLegends'': After having been confirmed by Word of God earlier, it is stated in-universe in Iseul's season 7 that Imohn Idreis is aromantic and asexual.

* In the third game of the ''VisualNovel/OneNightHotSprings'' series, ''spring leaves no flowers'', [[spoiler: Manami realizes that while she has a boyfriend she's genuinely happy to be with, she's not romantically or sexually attracted to him. She had previously written off her lack of interest in romantic and sexual activities as [[AllWomenArePrudes something that was true of all girls]] until Erika tells her that's definitely not the case and Haru sends her a link to a test that confirms her to be aromantic and asexual.]]

* ''Webcomic/UnderTheAegis'' has Nen and Shiloh as biromantic and aromantic asexuals respectively. In the case of the former, it's only hinted at, while with the latter it's far more explicit - but both have been confirmed by the author.

* Richard Dark from ''Webcomic/{{Xenospora}}'' is said to be this in his character profile.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Dr. Alto Clef is this to an almost supernatural degree, although it depends on the canon. Anomalous effects that usually induce lust does not affect him, but he does have a daughter, SCP-166. However, since the mother of said daughter was highly abusive of him both emotionally and physically, it's not impossible that he didn't become a father willingly. Alternatively, he may have had sex solely because he wanted a child, and not out of any sexual desire.

* Kish in ''WebVideo/PrettyDudes'' is asexual, but it's a bigger deal to the Dudes when she comes out as vegan.
* Caduceus Clay from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' is asexual and aromantic. When his friends ask in "An Open Window" why he didn't reciprocate an [=NPC's=] flirting or try to sleep with her, he confirms that "it's not really for me" and he's not interested in anybody that way, though he enjoys being an observer to his friends' relationships.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Todd comes out as asexual to his high-school sweetheart, Emily, in a diner during the Season 3 finale, telling her "I'm not gay. I mean, I don't think I am, but… I don't think I'm straight, either. I don't know what I am. I think I might be nothing." She accepts the fact and the two of them remain friends. The consequences of his coming out are explored further in Season 4, as he starts going to an asexual group meeting to learn more about his newfound sexuality, with members of the group explaining the difference between being asexual and aromantic and revealing their relationship status ("We had a nautical-themed wedding!"). Todd eventually starts dating an axolotl named Yolanda who is also asexual, though they break up in Season 5 after realizing they have nothing in common. By the time of the series' finale, he is in a relationship with another asexual woman whose personality is more compatible with his own.

* The ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemory''’s version of Aaron Burr never thinks about or initiates sex, and was surprised a character would be upset with him because they weren’t having sex anymore. He’s confirmed as asexual by WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/52690630 here]], [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/63012148 here]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].

* The fanfiction ''Fanfic/ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemory''’s version of Aaron Burr never thinks about or initiates sex, and was surprised a character would be upset with him because they weren’t having sex anymore. He’s confirmed as asexual by WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/52690630 here]], [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/63012148 here]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].

* The Theatre/{{Hamilton}} fanfiction ''Fanfic/ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemory''’s version of Aaron Burr never thinks about or initiates sex, and was surprised a character would be upset with him because they weren’t having sex anymore. He’s confirmed as asexual by WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/52690630 here]], [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/63012148 here]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].

*** These three goddesses are described as not being merely sworn virgins, but as the ''only creatures in the Universe'' over whom Aphrodite has no power. For reference, she can even sway ''Zeus'' (helping Hera to do so during the Trojan War).