With less than 1% of the population identifying as asexual, it really isn't surprising that it is one of the least understood sexualities around. We're getting pretty good at thinking about homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality - and we're even getting much better at understanding gender and gender identity. Blind heteronormativity is, slowly but surely, being whittled away by a more individualistic, inclusive ideology that is sort of starting to realise that maybe, just maybe, everyone is different and everyone is entitled to their own sexual and gender identity. Nuts!! But there's a grey-and-purple elephant in the room that we're only just starting to look at properly. Asexuality is difficult to define, hard to explain and about as convoluted a sexual spectrum as you can find. The Ace community is definitely out there - but I personally have never met another person outside an online community who has said they identify as Ace. And judging from a lot of th