The Ace Couple

Asexual married couple Courtney and Royce talk about all things Asexuality. By discussing queer culture and history, we’ll explore the topics of life, love, and sex through an Ace lens. Full transcripts and show notes on theacecouple.com.

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253 episodes
Updated Wednesday
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Episodes253

Newest first

Oct 22, 2025 · 57 min
Ableist Language (Part 1)
The start of an important, yet contentious conversation. Please be nice! We put these episodes off for literal years, because historically some of you have been EXTREMELY not nice about this topic.
Oct 15, 2025 · 59 min
"The Ick"
Yet another type of romantic and/or sexual feeling that we will simply never understand...
Oct 8, 2025 · 49 min
Ketamine Part 2: Health insurance adding insult to injury
Ketamine can be a life-saving treatment... It can also be prohibitively expensive. And only fellow chronically ill Americans will believe the audacity of our health insurance company revealed in a series of phone calls we've had this month.
Oct 1, 2025 · 51 min
Ketamine
A life-saving drug.
Sep 24, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
Bicentennial Man and humanizing characters through sex
Analyzing a 25 year old robot movie that bombed in order to make a point about sexuality, humanity, and asexual media representation because we simultaneously love and hate it.
Sep 17, 2025 · 55 min
Asexual Representation on Broadway: Maybe Happy Ending
Imagine a year where the Tony award winning best play and musical were both asexual??? Maybe Happy Ending might not be as elegant or explicit as Purpose in that regard, but honestly....please just let me have this?
Sep 10, 2025 · 51 min
r/AmITheAsshole? Asexuality Edition #7
Wow somehow we haven't done an AITA yet in 2025..let's fix that!
Sep 3, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Yet another healthcare rant...
Courtney is fighting doctors again.
Aug 27, 2025 · 41 min
Making fun of famous quotes about marriage, family, & home life
Reviewing and adding our Asexual commentary on quotes about Marriage, Family, & Home Life from the book Oxymoronica: paradoxical wit and wisdom from history’s greatest wordsmiths.
Aug 20, 2025 · 1 hr 50 min
Asexual Representation on Broadway: Purpose Review
2025 Tony award winning play, Purpose, is a triumph of the stage which prominently features asexuality as one of its core themes.
Aug 13, 2025 · 39 min
Making fun of famous quotes about sex, love, and romance
Reviewing and adding our Asexual commentary on quotes about Sex, Love, and Romance from the book Oxymoronica: paradoxical wit and wisdom from history's greatest wordsmiths.
Aug 6, 2025 · 55 min
The conspiracy theorist dating app advertising "unvaxxed sperm"
Courtney went undercover on the anti-vax dating site, Unjected...
Jul 30, 2025 · 30 min
Courtney, the ordained minister
Courtney is now an ordained minister of the Church of Gnome and she is ready to officiate your Ace wedding (or other important life event)!
Jul 23, 2025 · 1 hr 23 min
Weird Allo Reality Shows 4
TWO weird allo show episodes in one year?? Oh, how we spoil you! Today we talk about Pop the Balloon, Million Dollar Secret, and Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark.
Jul 16, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
Living with someone with EDS
July is disability pride month. We've already talked about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome from Courtney's perspective a lot, so here's Royce's perspective as an EDS spouse.
Jul 9, 2025 · 41 min
The history of Cake in the Asexual community
Cake has been the most consistent symbol for Ace Pride over the last 20 years- let's explore why!
Jul 2, 2025 · 1 hr 23 min
AI is a TERF
(...and also a Nazi)
Jun 25, 2025 · 57 min
Asexual Representation: Selah and the Spades
Selah and the Spades is a movie that brings us Ace rep that's rare in a number of ways...but it's also complicated.
Jun 18, 2025 · 50 min
Pride & Politics in 2025
Not sure if you've noticed, but politics lately are uh....not good
Jun 11, 2025 · 53 min
Pride, Protests, & Personal Protections in 2025
Pride feels a little different this year with the state of our politics.

The Ace Couple

Ableist Language (Part 1)

"The Ick"

Ketamine Part 2: Health insurance adding insult to injury

Ketamine

Bicentennial Man and humanizing characters through sex

Asexual Representation on Broadway: Maybe Happy Ending

r/AmITheAsshole? Asexuality Edition #7

Yet another healthcare rant...

Making fun of famous quotes about marriage, family, & home life

Asexual Representation on Broadway: Purpose Review

Making fun of famous quotes about sex, love, and romance

The conspiracy theorist dating app advertising "unvaxxed sperm"

Courtney, the ordained minister

Weird Allo Reality Shows 4

Living with someone with EDS

The history of Cake in the Asexual community

AI is a TERF

Asexual Representation: Selah and the Spades

Pride & Politics in 2025

Pride, Protests, & Personal Protections in 2025