katikat | Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock's sexuality

There's an interesting interview posted on IndieWire: link. And in said interview, Benedict Cumberbatch talks, among other things, about Sherlock's sexuality:

Well, I see no reason at all why he shouldn't be sexual. Everyone recruited him to their perspective, their interpretation. I've had asexuals come up to me and thank me for representing asexuals. I don't know how that came about. I mean, the man's too busy to have sex. That's really what is it. Not every man has a sex drive that needs to be attended to. Like a lot of things in his life where he's purposely dehumanized himself, it's do to with not wanting the stuff that is time wasting, that's messy. That goes for certain relationships, as well as sexual intimacy.

I agree with him. I don't see Sherlock as asexual. Just because someone doesn't have sex, it doesn't necessarily mean they do NOT have a sex drive - speaking from a personal experience here.

Also, if he were asexual, I don't think Mycroft would use his orientation as an ammunition against him, see Mycroft's scoffing "How would you know?!" in 201. Just like Sherlock wouldn't use Mycroft's weight issues against him if they were caused by a genuine medical condition and not just stress. Because, yeah, they're snippy, they needle each other and they try to one-up each other whenever possible - but I do NOT believe that they want to genuinely hurt each other. To take each other down a peg? Ya betcha. To hit where it might hurt most? No. Because I'm convinced that they genuinely love each other, they just don't know how to show it in a "normal" way. So they pull each other's pigtails...