asexual
Speech parts
1. asexual - Noun
2. asexual - Adjective
Meaning
Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
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In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.
Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, pernaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all female world.
The myth of childhood has an even greater parallel in the myth of Femininity. Both women and children were considered asexual and thus"purer" than man. Their inferior status was ill-concealed under an elaborate "respect."
I might have been homosexual if I was born in a different age but as it was I remained asexual.
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is sexier than communism.