Understanding Asexuality

I am picking on Tiger Woods about his excessive use of the world’s resources, but I could have chosen countless examples of excessive resource use in people, including myself, whose middle-class Western lifestyle (including my golf) is also open to criticism.

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My language here (e.g., gay genes compete) is teleological; it suggests that genes have intentions, motives, or a purpose. Evolutionary types would be mad at me, as genes don’t have these characteristics; that is, genes themselves don’t “compete” for anything. So, to all you evolutionary types, please excuse my loose language, as I am using it in this way to help illustrate a point.

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Note that the most important reference/source for understanding and diagnosing mental disorders in North America is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Clinicians view it as their “bible.”

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This is assuming, of course, that we can agree on the definition of an interpersonal impairment.