“When I was in school, we were just beginning to understand asexuality as a sexual orientation so it just wasn’t discussed, and sexuality in general wasn’t discussed enough, which is why I went and got a second master’s degree in human sexuality,” said sex therapist Rachel Klechevsky, 31, who specializes in non-heteronormative orientations, identities, and behaviors like asexuality. “Up until asexuality was considered an identity, it was often just diagnosed as a mental illness of hyposexuality and people would get put on some sort of medication or whatever. It was always conflated with a bunch of other mental health diagnoses. That’s sort of been the struggle for anyone who’s not heterosexual.”

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