I can count on one hand the number of books I've read/am aware of that featured an asexual who managed to find a happy romantic relationship where sex wasn't required. I also feel like there's a misconception that among the tiny pool of asexual representation, sex-repulsed aces are well-represented, which is why there's often a push to represent demisexuals, gray-aces, and sex-positive asexuals. Personally, I don't feel like a completely sex-repulsed heteroromantic ace is "more palatable" to a Straight person than a gay demisexual or gray-ace. I mean, maybe that's true vis-à-vis aro-aces-though, technically, any alloromantic ace is going to be "more palatable to Straight people" than an aro-ace-but I don't know if that's really true in general. I saw someone on Twitter basically say that a certain character from a book, who was aro-ace only by Word of God, had been "straightwashed" because "cis heteroromantic aces are more palatable to Straight people."
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