Angela Chen

Angela Chen is a journalist in New York. Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Paris Review. She is the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.

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  1. The Limits of Sex Positivity

    American culture still treats disinterest in sex as something that needs to be fixed. What if any amount of desire—including none—was okay?

    A crowd, partially black and white, partially in color
    Getty; The Atlantic
  2. The Rise of the Three-Parent Family

    The typical path to parenthood didn’t work for David Jay, a founder of the asexual movement. So he designed his own household—and is trying to show others what is possible.

    Three adults posing with a young child
    Preston Gannaway