Talk:Asexual people

Marilyn Monroe

It has been suggested that "sex icon" Marilyn Monroe was on the asexual spectrum. Monroe publicly seemed to have a very active sex life. However, in her dairy she confides that she doesn't feel attraction in the same way that other women do. She also admits to being attracted to women in some cases. [1] Whether she views this attraction as aesthetically or sexually is unclear.

The following quote is from her personal dairy as copied into the book My Story by Monroe herself and Ben Hecht: "Sex is a baffling thing when it doesn't happen. I used to wake up in the morning when I was married, and wonder if the whole world was crazy, whooping about sex all the time. It was like hearing all the time that stove polish was the greatest invention on earth. Then it dawned on me that people - other women - were different than me. They could feel things I couldn't. And when I started reading books I ran into the words 'frigid', 'rejected', and 'lesbian'. I wondered if I was all three of those things. A man who had kissed me once had said it was very possible I was a lesbian because I apparently had no response to males - meaning him. I didn't contradict him because I didn't know what I was. There were times even when I didn't feel human and times when all I could think of was dying." [2] (page 93).