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The asexuality purity myth suggests that all asexuals are inherently less mature because of their asexuality. This myth perpetuates the suggestion that sex is a stepping stone to adulthood, as well as the idea that virgins are 'pure' (and that all asexuals are virgins).

Asexuality Equated with Immaturity
Many asexuals feel as if they are treated as children by individuals and society at large, and this has a large effect on asexuals themselves and their community. Within the asexual community, there is much debate and criticism about the way that individual asexuals portray themselves to the wider population; some asexuals dislike certain aspects of the community such as cake jokes and AVEN due to what they see as a stereotype of asexuals as child-like and immature. However, this view is disliked by many as it plays into the Unassailable Asexual concept.

Compulsory Sexuality
Much of the emphasis on sex as a means to becoming an adult is an effect of compulsory sexuality (this is an idea similar tocompulsory heterosexuality). Asexuals challenge the idea that all adults have sex and are sexual beings, and so they are stereotyped as being child-like (or not human at all).

Asexuality Equated with Virginity
One of the reasons that asexuals are seen to challenge compulsory sexuality is because they are all assumed to be virgins. However, this is not the case.