Can Someone Explain This To Me?

[Belacqua]

'Born This Way'.

I think it's a good question and an important question, and also one that we can't answer.

You say that you are a certain way -- asexual -- and that it took a while to figure that out. So that's just what it means to be born a certain way. Nobody asked you to choose, you didn't select a multiple choice quiz at puberty. It just is.

But I don't think anybody knows why we are as we are. It's nature, it's nurture, it's genes, it's gene expression. Meh. Maybe someday they'll figure it out. But I don't think it matters. 

You know the word "homosexual" was only coined in the 19th century? Before that people didn't really have the concept of being a kind of person that was different. They just thought we like different things, as some people like blonds and some brunettes.

I was born in a tiny midwestern town that only had boring white people. Since then I have gone on to make a fool of myself over East Asian women. Go figure.