Link to article: https://femmagazine.com/asexuality-sherlocks-biggest-mystery/

If this has been discussed before a lot forgive me because I’m very new to this show and its fanbase. I just saw this and it was pretty important for me to talk about.

I’m someone who considers myself to be asexual. For me, I don’t care much for sex, I rarely think about it unless the subject is brought up to me, and I’ve never really looked at someone and desired to be with them that way.

Unfortunately in fiction there’s hardly any sort of representation for asexuality. The most notable representation for asexuality that exists is Todd Chavez from Bojack Horseman, who even had a coming out scene. There’s also Jughead Jones but they completely removed that from the CW show while it was canon in the original comics.

Sherlock Holmes could easily be among the few asexual characters we have. He’s an incredibly iconic fictional character, and we see evidence of his asexuality very consistently. But it kind of pisses me off seeing that Steven Moffat himself had the gall to straight up call it “boring.” That’s literally insulting to all the asexuals out there, because he’s literally saying the concept of asexuality is boring. Why does Sherlock need to get it on with someone else for the story to be more interesting? It’s already plenty interesting enough to see Sherlock being his own funny self and solving cases. The show is already fun and interesting as it is. I’m sure there’s people out there who want to see him get with someone, but if they want it that bad they should look somewhere else, as the heart of this show is supposed to be Sherlock solving big mysteries and puzzles, with some important emotional background plots.

Benedict Cumberbatch did also say in an interview how he believes Sherlock just suppresses his sex drive and that it’s not asexuality. But the truth is asexuals can actually still have a sex drive. Sherlock could have a suppressed sex drive and still be asexual. Both could be perfectly true. Asexuality is the lack of attraction directed at one person. Sex drive is the biological urge for sex itself. A person who experiences sexual attraction could have a low libido, but that doesn’t take away from their sexual attraction to the person. Libido has more to do with the hormones, and asexuality is not a hormonal thing. Same way being gay isn’t hormonal. It’s just how the person is, and what their preferences are.

An asexual however also has all the normal hormones with various levels of it just like anyone else. The only difference between asexuals and anyone else in that regard is how they act on sex and with who. Some asexuals might act on it with someone for the sake of doing it if they have a high libido, but it will still have nothing to do with the sexual attractiveness of the person they’re doing it with.

Sherlock is one of my favorite series, but I find this episode very uninteresting and I don't want to give that impression to my friend who is just starting the series. We already skipped "The Blink Banker," should we skip this one too?