Intriguing as this 1 percent figure is, it does not necessarily represent a definitive statement on the prevalence of asexuality across societies, or even across time within the same society. I recently reanalyzed the ten-year follow-up to this national British sample (NATSAL-II) (Johnson et al., 2001; National Centre for Social Research et al., 2005), and found that approximately 0.5 percent had“never felt sexual attraction to anyone at all” (Bogaert, in press-a). Also, as a comparison, the prevalence rate of same-sex attraction (again, predominant homosexuality and bisexuality combined) was higher in NATSAL-II (2.3 percent) than in NATSAL-I and was significantly higher than the rate of asexuality in NATSAL-II. Nada. Nothing had come back abnormal. Even the various MRIs and CT scans were clean. If the labs were to be believed, I was 100 percent healthy. My parents could sense that the doctors were starting to despair that they would never figure it out. And if there wasn’t a physical problem to cure, everyone understood—though no one would admit—that I would be on my way out to a far worse place. At this point, my family needed someone who would believe in me no matter what. This was the only time in my mother’s long experience with doctors that she had hoped for positive test results. At least then we would have an answer. sensation—may have a biological origin in “the activation of a distinct and evolutionary functional ‘sense of the other’ . . . deep within the temporal lobe specialized for The potato took 200–250 years, in spite of organized encouragement, to become accepted in England. It took only fifty years in Ireland. Maize and cassava have come to be accepted in parts of Africa in considerably less time…. Tea, white bread, rice and soft drinks have entered many African dietaries in even shorter time and the extent to which they have spread and their consequences to nutrition have been rather severe.