[Alt Text: Comic featuring a human asking a little blue dude (smurf) if "so... Since smurfette is the only female smurf... Does that mean you all have to... You know..." while touching the tips of their pointer fingers together, typically signaling shyness.
Next panel just shows a smurf saying, "oh! Ha ha. Of course not. We reproduce like any other parasite."
Next panel shows a collection of smurfs walking around the human who is now seemingly dead and is now covered in a bunch of growths that look like smurfs.
So I knew smurfs were asexual but seeing this post made me question if parasites can be asexual. Yes, they can be. Anyway all that to say, why does this question keep popping up in my life.