Like Captain Kirk is married to the Enterprise. Like, “Wow, apparently having a girlfriend is what you’re supposed to do, I’ll go get one.” But that’s not where his mind is at. I guess the only way SpongeBob could maybe have a girlfriend is if he was trying to imitate, if it was imitative behavior. Like, they’re too young and naïve to have any feelings of that type, and even if they do have stirrings they don’t know how to act on them. 'I think our take on SpongeBob and Patrick is that they’re pre-sexual characters. He was doubtful, saying the characters were even “pre-sexual”:
HuffPost asked the voice of SpongeBob, Tom Kenny, in 2015 about possible significant others in the little sponge’s future. In point of fact, sea sponges do reproduce asexually. When Hillenburg made this claim, he was under intense scrutiny from anti-LGBTQ+ lobbying groups who believed that SpongeBob in some way promoted homosexuality to children, so fans believe that Hillenburg may have called SpongeBob asexual just to avoid this controversy. I really don’t pay much attention to this.” He added that there are “more important issues to worry about.
