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Home/Featured/What Does “Demisexual” Say about Christian Hope?

What Does “Demisexual” Say about Christian Hope?

It’s difficult to keep up with these new identifications and all the rules governing them. Someone recently suggested, perhaps we should just change the acronym to “LGBTQ-TBA”

Written by John Stonestreet | Thursday, July 29, 2021

We must be prepared also to offer the far better vision of identity, love, sex, and friendship found in the Christian account of reality. To not offer the better way of the Gospel would be heartless and foolish. Not only do we have a better story to tell, but the timing is right. This late chapter of the sexual revolution is exhausting itself (and all of us) in its perpetual fight against reality. In other words, there is a grand opportunity in front of us.

 

Earlier this month, Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, daughter of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, announced that she now identifies as “demisexual.” As she described in the interview, her journey has gone from identifying as straight to identifying as bisexual to identifying as pansexual to now, finally, demisexual. This latest identification refers to someone who is sexually attracted only to people with whom one has formed an emotional attachment.

This kind of “I want it to be special” approach to sexual intimacy is nothing new, of course. (In fact, I think it was the plot of almost every teen coming-of age movie in the ‘80s and ‘90s.) On one hand, reattaching sexual behavior to emotional attachment is an improvement over the no-strings-attached hook-up approach, or the digital replacement of porn addiction. On the other hand, considering an emotional attachment as a way of expressing (and therefore identifying) oneself, rather than as a measure of relational maturity isn’t an improvement at all. (Not to mention, the only way to be a “demisexual” in good standing, with all of the other identifications, requires that one not prefer male or female in one’s emotional and sexual connections. So, it wouldn’t be accurate to think of demisexual as the return of “Pretty in Pink”.)

It’s difficult to keep up with these new identifications and all the rules governing them. As someone recently suggested, perhaps we should just change the acronym to “LGBTQ-TBA” and be done with it. After all, no sexual behavior was considered a category of identity until recently. Now all are; a move which ensures that none are considered wrong, unnatural, or immoral.

The essential points to understand about this whole discussion are that, first, sexuality is no longer seen as behavior in our culture, but as identity. In other words, rather than something we do, sexuality is who we are. Second, who we are is considered fluid, not fixed. So, a journey through the acronym, like Michaela’s, is self-discovery not a crisis. Increasingly, educational and social forces push the young on this journey, while the whole culture cheers them along.  All of this may seem nonsensical, even observably wrong, but is widely assumed as true and normal.

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