turps

Yeah, glacial is the perfect word.

Other parts of his life would go forward much faster than the sex issue, and anyone who he dates would have to really patient. It's why I can see him deciding he is asexual for a while, because it's just easier to not think about it and do without.

Of course he's not, he's just fucked up in the head about it, but that's not a distinction he can really see yet.