@online{noauthor_untitled_nodate, title = {[Untitled]}, url = {https://www-tandfonline-com.www2.lib.ku.edu/doi/pdf/10.1080/15299716.2020.1715910?needAccess=true}, urldate = {2020-12-02}, } @thesis{negron_quien_2018, location = {San Juan (Puerto Rico)}, title = {¿A quién no le gusta el sexo?: la asexualidad como vivencia de la sexualidad humana invisibilizada y sus implicaciones para las personas que viven la asexualidad y para la práctica del trabajo social en Puerto Rico}, shorttitle = {¿A quién no le gusta el sexo?}, pagetotal = {207}, institution = {Universidad de Puerto Rico}, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Negrón, Natalia M. and Pérez Ramos, Linette M.}, date = {2018}, note = {Nota de prensa "Estudiantes graduadas abordan el tema de la asexualidad como objeto de estudio": http://www.uprrp.edu/?p=16113}, } @article{dawson_asexual_2018, title = {‘“Asexual” Isn’t Who I Am’: The Politics of Asexuality}, volume = {23}, issn = {1360-7804}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418757540}, doi = {10.1177/1360780418757540}, shorttitle = {‘“Asexual” Isn’t Who I Am’}, abstract = {Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer’s critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political action in the areas of identity, activism, online spaces, and {LGBT} politics. What we found was a plurality of experiences and attitudes with most adopting a pragmatic position in response to their social situation which saw large-scale political action as irrelevant. We conclude by reflecting on what these results mean for those who see asexuality as potentially radical.}, pages = {374--391}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Sociological Research Online}, shortjournal = {Sociological Research Online}, author = {Dawson, Matt and Scott, Susie and {McDonnell}, Liz}, urldate = {2020-09-27}, date = {2018-06-01}, langid = {english}, note = {Publisher: {SAGE} Publications Ltd}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/237EYH78/Dawson et al. - 2018 - ‘“Asexual” Isn’t Who I Am’ The Politics of Asexua.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{binato_assexualidade_2015, location = {Rio de Janeiro}, title = {A Assexualidade na Mídia Televisiva: A Dificuldade de Desmitificar a Narrativa Sexual}, url = {http://www.academia.edu/19690937/Assexualidade_na_M%C3%ADdia_Televisiva}, shorttitle = {A Assexualidade na Mídia Televisiva}, abstract = {[...] A ideia de que o assexual arromântica é frio, distante, nerd, socialmente inapto e possivelmente com Aspergers é perpetuada pela criação desses personagens. A afirmação de Sherlock de que ele seria um sociopata também reforça a medicalização desses grupos, como já havia sido afirmado na pesquisa de Elisabete Oliceira e em outras citadas na primeira parte desse texto. Já existe a ideia na sociedade de que o assexual é uma pessoa anormal, uma pessoa fora da normatividade comum, sem a necessidade de um rostro para esse estereótipo. Quando existe um, ele somente se fortalece.}, pagetotal = {55}, institution = {Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro}, type = {Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso}, author = {Binato, Priscilla Majella}, date = {2015}, langid = {portuguese}, } @thesis{costa_assexual_2016, location = {Sao Paulo}, title = {A de Assexual: Entendendo a Assexualidade Humana}, url = {https://claudiapcosta.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/memorial-a-de-assexual.pdf}, abstract = {O presente documento refere-se ao livro-reportagem intitulado: A de Assexual: Entendendo a Assexualidade Humana. Este memorial explica a proposta de tema, como ela foi desenvolvida teoricamente e como foi colocada em prática para fazer o livro-reportagem se tornar realidade.}, pagetotal = {34}, institution = {Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing}, type = {Projeto de Graduação}, author = {Costa, Cláudia P.}, date = {2016}, langid = {portuguese}, } @book{costa_assexual_2017, location = {Sao Paulo}, title = {A de Assexual: Entendendo a Assexualidade Humana}, shorttitle = {A de Assexual}, abstract = {O livro-reportagem A de Assexual: Entendendo a Assexualidade Humana foi escrito como um Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de jornalismo. A proposta do livro é explicar, de forma simples, o que é a assexualidade, trazendo relatos e experiências de pessoas assexuais ao redor do mundo.}, pagetotal = {79}, publisher = {Edição de autor}, author = {Costa, Cláudia P.}, date = {2017}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{brigeiro_emergencia_2013, title = {A emergência da assexualidade: notas sobre política sexual, ethos científico e o desinteresse pelo sexo}, issn = {1984-6487}, url = {http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/28148}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1984-64872013000200012}, shorttitle = {A emergência da assexualidade}, abstract = {This paper discusses the emergence of asexuality. I analyze how sexual politics and the production of knowledge combine in online virtual communities whose members self-identify as 'asexual,' and on papers on the subject published in scholarly journals. The connections between formulations produced by asexual, and those by scholars and scientists are the most idiosyncratic and exciting aspects of this emergence. As a kind of hinge, the thread mentioned shows the crosscuts and concerns configured around the topic of sexual disinterest today. I seek to understand how arguments and concepts migrate, are de-territorialized and re-territorialized, and by virtue of those movements become set. In the case study, the agendas of activism and the advancement of science converge, and often mingle. These findings lead to reflection on the scientific ethos and its importance to the field of sexuality studies, as well as to marginalized groups, regarding the ideal of sexual democracy, about the fluidity of boundaries between lay people and experts.}, journaltitle = {{SciELO}}, shortjournal = {La emergencia de la asexualidad: notas sobre política sexual, ethos científico y desinterés por el sexo}, author = {Brigeiro, Mauro}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2013-08-01}, langid = {portuguese}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/5DB8E4RZ/Brigeiro - 2013 - A emergência da assexualidade notas sobre polític.pdf:application/pdf}, } @online{meyer_is_2019, title = {A is Not for Ally: Affirming Asexual College Student Narratives}, url = {https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/tvc/vol40/iss1/8/}, author = {Meyer, Catherine}, urldate = {2019-09-18}, date = {2019}, } @article{arkenberg_mayde_2014, title = {'A Mayde, and Last of Youre Blood': Galahad's Asexuality and its Significance in Le Morte Darthur}, volume = {24}, pages = {3--22}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Arthuriana}, author = {Arkenberg, Megan}, date = {2014}, langid = {english}, } @article{mcdonnell_multidimensional_2016, title = {A multidimensional view? Evaluating the different and combined contributions of diaries and interviews in an exploration of asexual identities and intimacies}, issn = {1468-7941}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468794116676516}, doi = {10.1177/1468794116676516}, shorttitle = {A multidimensional view?}, abstract = {This article evaluates the relative contributions of diaries and interviews in multiple methods qualitative research exploring asexual identities and intimacies. Differentiated by three core differences: reflective time-frame (the day just had/lifetime), context (alone/with researcher) and mode (written/verbal), these methods had the potential to generate a multidimensional view of our topics. Using five cases in which data from both interviews and diaries were collected, this article explores how the intermeshed issues of identity and intimacy were constructed in each method, as well as reflecting on what was gained by their combination. Our analysis leads us to conclude that multiple methods do not always produce a fuller or a more rounded picture of individual participants’ lives. Nevertheless, the decision to collect data using different strategies did increase our chances of finding a method that suited individual participants, whether in style or focus.}, pages = {1468794116676516}, journaltitle = {Qualitative Research}, shortjournal = {Qualitative Research}, author = {{McDonnell}, Liz and Scott, Susie and Dawson, Matt}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-11-11}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/82LEGGJ3/McDonnell et al. - 2016 - A multidimensional view Evaluating the different .pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{bishop_mystery_2013, title = {A mystery wrapped in an enigma – asexuality: a virtual discussion}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774168}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774168}, shorttitle = {A mystery wrapped in an enigma – asexuality}, abstract = {Contributors to this thematic issue were requested to answer six questions related to asexuality as a phenomenon and also the research therein. All responses received were collated into a ‘virtual discussion’ with the hope of spawning new ideas and also identifying any gaps in the current research and general knowledge regarding asexuality.}, pages = {195--206}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Bishop, C. J.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @article{van_houdenhove_positive_2017, title = {A Positive Approach Toward Asexuality: Some First Steps, But Still a Long Way to Go}, volume = {46}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0921-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0921-1}, shorttitle = {A Positive Approach Toward Asexuality}, abstract = {It is estimated that 1\% of the general population could fall within the definitions of asexuality (compare this to 2.5\% for rapid ejaculation). It is thus likely that many of us are already seeing these patients. This short commentary paper looks at asexuality from a number of viewpoints, including historical, nomenclature, definition and raises important questions such as how asexuality may differentiate from low sexual interest and arousal, and whether it should be seen as a separate unique sexuality. It ends with recommendations for future research. (Source: Goldmeier D: F1000Prime Recommendation of [Van Houdenhove E et al., Arch Sex Behav 2017]. In F1000Prime, 26 Jan 2017; 10.3410/f.727219807.793527657)}, pages = {647--651}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Van Houdenhove, Ellen and Enzlin, Paul and Gijs, Luk}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2017-01-13}, langid = {english}, } @article{robbins_qualitative_2016, title = {A Qualitative Exploration of the “Coming Out” Process for Asexual Individuals}, volume = {45}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-015-0561-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-015-0561-x}, abstract = {“Coming out” is an important process not only for identity formation in sexual minorities, but also for increasing access to romantic partners of similar identities (Vaughan \& Waehler, 2010). It is unclear how asexuality and the variations within the asexual community are revealed and communicated in the coming out process. Some asexual individuals may find no practical value in coming out, as they do not seek romantic partnerships, while others pursue romantic relationships that are devoid of sexual activity. To date, virtually no psychological research has explored the “coming out” experience for those with an asexual identity. The current research analyzed the “coming out” narratives of 169 self-identified asexual individuals recruited from three online asexual communities using a phenomenological approach. Salient themes were extracted from narratives about the experience of developing an asexual identity. Themes included skepticism from family and friends, lack of acceptance and misunderstanding, non-disclosure of the asexual identity, relief upon discovering the asexual community, and the role of the internet in asexual identity discovery and expression. A theoretical model of asexual identity development is proposed based on these findings.}, pages = {751--760}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Robbins, Nicolette K. and Low, Kathryn Graff and Query, Anna N.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-04-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{robbins_qualitative_2016-1, title = {A Qualitative Exploration of the “Coming Out” Process for Asexual Individuals}, volume = {45}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-015-0561-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-015-0561-x}, abstract = {Coming out’’is an important process not only for identity formation in sexual minorities, but also for increasing access to romantic partners of similar identities (Vaughan \& Waehler, 2010). It is unclear how asexuality and the variations within the asexual community are revealed and communicated in the coming out process. Some asexual individuals may find no practical value in coming out, as they do not seek romantic partnerships, while others pursue romantic relationships that are devoid of sexual activity. To date, virtually no psychological research has explored the ‘‘coming out’’ experience for those with an asexual identity. The current research analyzed the‘‘coming out’’narratives of 169 self-identified asexual individuals recruited from three online asexual communities using a phenomenological approach.Salientthemeswereextracted from narrativesabout the experience of developing an asexual identity. Themes included skepticism from family and friends, lack of acceptance and misunderstanding, non-disclosure of the asexual identity, relief upon discovering theasexual community, andthe roleoftheinternet in asexual identity discoveryandexpression. A theoretical model of asexual identity development is proposed based on these findings.}, pages = {751--760}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Robbins, Nicolette K. and Low, Kathryn Graff and Query, Anna N.}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2016-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{bogaert_review_2015, title = {A Review of "The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality"}, volume = {41}, issn = {0092-623X}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2015.1064629}, doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2015.1064629}, shorttitle = {A Review of "The Invisible Orientation}, pages = {691--692}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2015-11-02}, pmid = {26645127}, } @article{brozowski_test_2022, title = {A test of the investment model among asexual individuals: The moderating role of attachment orientation}, volume = {13}, issn = {1664-1078}, url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.912978}, shorttitle = {A test of the investment model among asexual individuals}, abstract = {Many asexual individuals are in long-term satisfying romantic relationships. However, the contributors to relational commitment among asexual individuals have received little attention. How do investment model characteristics and attachment orientations predict relationship commitment among asexual individuals? Our study looked at a sample of 485 self-identified asexual individuals currently in a romantic relationship (Mage = 25.61, {SD} = 6.24; {MRelationshipLength} = 4.42 years, {SD} = 4.74). Individuals reported on Investment Model characteristics (i.e., their relationship satisfaction, investment, alternatives, and commitment) and their attachment orientations. Satisfaction, investment, and fewer alternatives were associated with greater commitment. Attachment orientations only occasionally moderated the results: for people low in anxiety, satisfaction and investment were more strongly related to commitment compared to people high in anxiety. The current study provided an extension of the Investment Model to describe romantic relationships among asexual individuals.}, journaltitle = {Frontiers in Psychology}, author = {Brozowski, Alexandra and Connor-Kuntz, Hayden and Lewis, Sanaye and Sinha, Sania and Oh, Jeewon and Weidmann, Rebekka and Weaver, Jonathan R. and Chopik, William J.}, urldate = {2022-09-29}, date = {2022}, } @online{noauthor_textual_nodate, title = {A Textual Analysis of Online Asexual Representation and Visibility on Reddit - {ProQuest}}, url = {https://search.proquest.com/openview/4a28acae47e9f39945702ab1d6e21ec4/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y}, abstract = {Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the {ProQuest} Platform.}, urldate = {2020-09-30}, langid = {english}, } @article{storms_theory_1981, title = {A theory of erotic orientation development}, volume = {88}, rights = {(c) 2016 {APA}, all rights reserved}, issn = {1939-1471 0033-295X}, doi = {10.1037/0033-295X.88.4.340}, abstract = {It has been proposed that the content of an individual's erotic fantasies and the erotic stimuli that are sexually arousing to an individual (i.e., an individual's erotic orientation) is the core psychological dimension underlying sexual orientation. Although considerable research has been conducted on the basic processes by which individuals acquire erotic stimuli, it has not been integrated into a theory of erotic orientation development. Previous research is reviewed in this article, and a theoretical model is offered. It is proposed that erotic orientation emerges from an interaction between sex drive development and social development during early adolescence. Hypotheses are presented concerning the effects of variations in the timing of sex drive development and in patterns of social bonding on sexual orientation, and data relevant to those hypotheses are examined. Finally, the proposed theory is compared to extant theories of the causes of homosexuality. (76 ref)}, pages = {340--353}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Psychological Review}, author = {Storms, Michael D.}, date = {1981}, } @article{yule_validated_2014, title = {A validated measure of no sexual attraction: The Asexuality Identification Scale}, volume = {27}, issn = {1939-134X, 1040-3590}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268154825}, doi = {10.1037/a0038196}, shorttitle = {A validated measure of no sexual attraction}, abstract = {Human asexuality has been described as a lack of sexual attraction toward anyone or anything. One percent of the adult population is thought to be asexual, and research suggests that asexuality is best conceptualized as a sexual orientation. A serious limitation in past research on asexuality has been the complete lack of a validated tool to measure asexuality. Due to limitations in recruiting sufficiently powered local samples, most studies have relied on recruiting via online web-based asexual communities. This is problematic because it limits the sample to individuals who have been recruited through established asexuality networks/communities. The present study aimed to develop and validate a self-report questionnaire to assess asexuality. The questionnaire was intended to provide a valid measure independent of whether the individual self-identified as asexual and was developed in several stages, including: development and administration of open-ended questions (209 participants: 139 asexual and 70 sexual); administration and analysis of resulting 111 items (917 participants: 165 asexual and 752 sexual); administration and analysis of 37 retained items (1,242 participants: 316 asexual and 926 sexual); and validity analysis of the final items. The resulting Asexuality Identification Scale ({AIS}), a 12-item questionnaire, is a brief, valid, and reliable self-report instrument for assessing asexuality. It is psychometrically sound, easy to administer, and has demonstrated ability to discriminate between sexual and asexual individuals. It should prove useful to allow researchers to recruit more representative samples of the asexual population, permitting for an increased understanding of asexuality.}, pages = {148--160}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Psychological Assessment}, author = {Yule, Morag A. and Brotto, Lori A. and Gorzalka, Boris B.}, urldate = {2016-12-26}, date = {2014}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{sheehan_-identity_2015, location = {Fairfax, {VA}}, title = {A-Identity Politics: Asexual Exceptionalism, Precarity, and Activism}, url = {http://mars.gmu.edu/handle/1920/9758}, shorttitle = {A-Identity Politics}, abstract = {This thesis explores the rhetoric of asexual awareness activists, specifically in regards to recent formulations within queer and post-structural feminist theory regarding precarity, vulnerability, and affect. An asexual is broadly defined as one who does not experience sexual attraction to others. While the term has existed throughout the history of sexology, the community and identity were formed in 2001 when David Jay created the Asexual Visibility and Education Network ({AVEN}). Queer and post-structural feminist analyses of have worked to elucidate asexuality’s cultural and discursive contingencies. This thesis builds upon much of this scholarship, but considers recent trends in queer and feminist theory towards conceptualizations of precarity: institutional discourses that maximize one’s sense of vulnerability. Precarity, I contend, creates a need for individuals to render their narrative recognizable by relying on discourses of cultural exceptionality along intersectional axes of identity. In considering the propensity for awareness activist to utilize exceptional narratives, I provide close readings of asexual awareness activist materials: Angela Tucker’s (2011) documentary (A)sexual, which features David Jay; along with The Invisible Orientation and “The Asexuality Top Ten” by Julie Sondra Decker. I conclude that while both of these texts offer important critiques of Western society’s conceptualization of intimacy and recognition, they are also predicated upon normative discourses in order to exceptionalize their subjects. I conclude by considering future possibilities for asexuality studies that could reconceptualize the politics of recognition and consider new directions for discussions of the affective and discursive elements of asexuality.}, pagetotal = {136}, institution = {George Mason University}, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Sheehan, Ryan}, date = {2015}, langid = {english}, } @article{haley_-spectrum_nodate, title = {A-Spectrum meetings foster inclusivity for asexuals and aromantics}, pages = {2}, author = {Haley, Desiree}, langid = {english}, } @article{antonsen_ace_2020, title = {Ace and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual}, volume = {49}, issn = {1573-2800}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01600-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-019-01600-1}, shorttitle = {Ace and Aro}, abstract = {First characterized by Kinsey in 1948, asexuality can be broadly defined as an absence of sexual attraction, with approximately 1\% of the population identifying as asexual. While asexuality research has flourished recently, very few papers have investigated the unique mechanism of romantic attraction in asexual people, notably that some experience romantic attraction (romantic asexual) while others do not (aromantic asexual). This study compared romantic and aromantic asexual individuals through secondary data analysis on demographic, behavioral, psychological, and physiological measures as the primary objective and compared asexual people to allosexual people on some measures as a secondary aim. After combining data from seven previous asexuality studies (n = 4032 total), we found that 74.0\% of asexual people reported experiencing romantic attraction. No significant difference was found in distribution of men and women between the aromantic and romantic asexual groups, though the asexual group showed higher proportions of women and non-binary genders compared to the allosexual comparison group. Romantic asexual participants reported a diverse range of romantic orientations, with only 36.0\% reporting a heteroromantic orientation, compared to 76.2\% of allosexual participants. As predicted, romantic asexual individuals were more likely to have been in a relationship when completing the survey, reported more past romantic and sexual partners and more frequent kissing than aromantic asexual people, and experienced more partner-oriented sexual desire than the aromantic asexual group. There were also differences in personality as romantic asexual people were less cold, more nurturant, and more intrusive than the aromantic asexual group. No difference was seen between romantic and aromantic asexual individuals in demographic characteristics, likelihood of having children, solitary sexual desire, physiological sexual functioning, frequencies of masturbation and sexual fantasy, or depression. These similarities and differences between romantic and aromantic asexual people highlight the diversity within the asexual community.}, pages = {1615--1630}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Antonsen, Amy N. and Zdaniuk, Bozena and Yule, Morag and Brotto, Lori A.}, urldate = {2020-07-18}, date = {2020-07-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{sloan_ace_2015, title = {Ace of ({BDSM}) clubs: Building asexual relationships through {BDSM} practice}, volume = {18}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460714550907}, doi = {10.1177/1363460714550907}, shorttitle = {Ace of ({BDSM}) clubs}, abstract = {Since the, 1990s, asexuality has gained prominence as an identity adopted by individuals who do not experience sexual attraction. Paradoxically, many asexual individuals form relationships through Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism ({BDSM}) – acts conventionally assumed to involve sexual desire and pleasure. I interviewed 15 asexual individuals to illuminate why they participate in interactions where sexual attraction is often expected and expressed. I propose that {BDSM} helps these practitioners form non-sexual relationships by providing tools for navigating sexual expectations and redefining their behaviors as indicative of affections that do not stem from sexual desire.}, pages = {548--563}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Sloan, Lorca Jolene}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2015-09-01}, langid = {english}, } @book{chen_ace_2020, title = {Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society and the Meaning of Sex}, isbn = {978-0-8070-1379-3}, url = {https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625230/ace-by-angela-chen/}, abstract = {An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face--confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships--are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir Ace addresses the misconceptions around the "A" of {LGBTQIA} and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of asexual people. Vulnerable and honest, these stories include a woman who had blood tests done because she was convinced that "not wanting sex" was a sign of serious illness, and a man who grew up in a religious household and did everything "right," only to realize after marriage that his experience of sexuality had never been the same as that of others. Disabled aces, aces of color, gender-nonconforming aces, and aces who both do and don't want romantic relationships all share their experiences navigating a society in which a lack of sexual attraction is considered abnormal. Chen's careful cultural analysis explores how societal norms limit understanding of sex and relationships and celebrates the breadth of sexuality and queerness.}, pagetotal = {224}, publisher = {Beacon House}, author = {Chen, Angela}, date = {2020-09-15}, langid = {english}, } @book{chen_ace_2020-1, title = {Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex}, isbn = {978-0-8070-1379-3}, shorttitle = {Ace}, abstract = {An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face--confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships--are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the "A" of {LGBTQIA} and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.  Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of asexual people. Vulnerable and honest, these stories include a woman who had blood tests done because she was convinced that "not wanting sex" was a sign of serious illness, and a man who grew up in a religious household and did everything "right," only to realize after marriage that his experience of sexuality had never been the same as that of others. Disabled aces, aces of color, gender-nonconforming aces, and aces who both do and don't want romantic relationships all share their experiences navigating a society in which a lack of sexual attraction is considered abnormal. Chen's careful cultural analysis explores how societal norms limit understanding of sex and relationships and celebrates the breadth of sexuality and queerness.}, pagetotal = {226}, publisher = {Beacon Press}, author = {Chen, Angela}, date = {2020}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {MVX}4DwAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Family \& Relationships / Love \& Romance, Psychology / Human Sexuality, Social Science / {LGBT} Studies / General}, } @report{noauthor_acha_nodate, title = {{ACHA} {NCHA} {II} Fall 2016 Reference Group Data Report}, url = {http://www.acha-ncha.org/docs/NCHA-II_FALL_2016_REFERENCE_GROUP_DATA_REPORT.pdf}, type = {American College Health Association National College Health Assessment}, urldate = {2017-09-07}, } @article{przybylo_afterword_2013, title = {Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774167}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774167}, shorttitle = {Afterword}, pages = {193--194}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @inproceedings{catri_algunas_2016, location = {Ciudad de Buenos Aires}, title = {Algunas características de la asexualidad en la especie humana considerada como una orientación sexual}, url = {http://congreso2016.aasm.org.ar/es/info/abstract/115}, abstract = {La asexualidad en la especie humana ha sido poco investigada. Si bien se realizaron algunos trabajos durante la segunda mitad del siglo {XX}, la mayoría de los estudios son más bien recientes. Este trabajo tiene por objetivo realizar una descripción de algunas características de la asexualidad. La asexualidad puede definirse como una orientación sexual, que consiste en la falta de atracción sexual. Esta falta de atracción sexual no implica una falta de atracción romántica, ni tampoco una falta de deseo sexual. La asexualidad no es considerada una variante del trastorno de deseo sexual hipoactivo, ni tampoco un trastorno en sí, aunque algunos estudios la asocian a un mayor porcentaje de trastornos mentales. Sin embargo, esta relación se explica por el estigma social y la discriminación que sufren los individuos asexuales.}, eventtitle = {X Congreso Argentino de Salud Mental: Los Límites de la clínica}, author = {Catri, Florencia}, date = {2016-08-25}, langid = {spanish}, } @article{jackson_analysis_2017, title = {An Analysis of the Theoretical Origins and Persistance of Asexuality in Humans}, rights = {Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.}, url = {http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/625011}, abstract = {Asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to members of any sex or gender. This phenotype would be considered detrimental in the context of the fitness of the asexual individual, so the question on how this trait originated and continues to persist remains unanswered. Synthesizing studies on asexual humans, homosexual human genetics, evolutionary selection theories, and historical context, the issue of asexuality and the fitness of asexual individuals is considered from multiple points of view. While no clear conclusion is produced, the possibility of a combination of polygenic traits and cultural context not seen in most animal species is proposed as possibly asexuality’s initial origin and persistence in human populations. Further research is needed in queer studies and behavioral evolution before a more definite conclusion can be reached.}, author = {Jackson, Sydney Nichole}, urldate = {2017-08-31}, date = {2017-01-01}, langid = {american}, } @unpublished{przybylo_erotic_2020, location = {University of Warsaw American Studies Center}, title = {An Erotic Toolkit: Asexual and Aromantic Critiques of Heteronormativity}, url = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rl5Rfv9pfo}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, date = {2020-05-28}, langid = {english}, } @article{gupta_and_2017, title = {“And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing Actually Wrong With Me”: Asexual Marginalization and Resistance}, volume = {64}, issn = {0091-8369}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1236590}, doi = {10.1080/00918369.2016.1236590}, shorttitle = {“And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing Actually Wrong With Me”}, abstract = {This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews, I identify four ways the asexually identified individuals in this study saw themselves as affected by compulsory sexuality: pathologization, isolation, unwanted sex and relationship conflict, and the denial of epistemic authority. I also identify five ways these asexually identified individuals disrupted compulsory sexuality: adopting a language of difference and a capacity to describe asexuality; deemphasizing the importance of sexuality in human life; developing new types of nonsexual relationships; constituting asexuality as a sexual orientation or identity; and engaging in community building and outreach. I argue that some of these practices offer only a limited disruption of compulsory sexuality, but some of these practices pose a radical challenge to sexual norms by calling into question the widespread assumption that sexuality is a necessary part of human flourishing.}, pages = {991--1013}, number = {8}, journaltitle = {Journal of Homosexuality}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, pmid = {27632813}, note = {Originally published online in 2016.}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/2YMGSXPS/Gupta - 2017 - “And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{gupta_and_2017-1, title = {“And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing Actually Wrong With Me”: Asexual Marginalization and Resistance}, volume = {64}, issn = {0091-8369, 1540-3602}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2016.1236590}, doi = {10.1080/00918369.2016.1236590}, shorttitle = {“And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing Actually Wrong With Me”}, abstract = {This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews, I identify four ways the asexually identified individuals in this study saw themselves as affected by compulsory sexuality: pathologization, isolation, unwanted sex and relationship conflict, and the denial of epistemic authority. I also identify five ways these asexually identified individuals disrupted compulsory sexuality: adopting a language of difference and a capacity to describe asexuality; deemphasizing the importance of sexuality in human life; developing new types of nonsexual relationships; constituting asexuality as a sexual orientation or identity; and engaging in community building and outreach. I argue that some of these practices offer only a limited disruption of compulsory sexuality, but some of these practices pose a radical challenge to sexual norms by calling into question the widespread assumption that sexuality is a necessary part of human flourishing.}, pages = {991--1013}, number = {8}, journaltitle = {Journal of Homosexuality}, shortjournal = {Journal of Homosexuality}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2017-07-03}, langid = {english}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/L93S6RZR/Gupta - 2017 - “And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{gupta_and_2017-2, title = {“And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing Actually Wrong With Me”: Asexual Marginalization and Resistance}, volume = {64}, issn = {0091-8369, 1540-3602}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2016.1236590}, doi = {10.1080/00918369.2016.1236590}, shorttitle = {“And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing Actually Wrong With Me”}, abstract = {This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews, I identify four ways the asexually identified individuals in this study saw themselves as affected by compulsory sexuality: pathologization, isolation, unwanted sex and relationship conflict, and the denial of epistemic authority. I also identify five ways these asexually identified individuals disrupted compulsory sexuality: adopting a language of difference and a capacity to describe asexuality; deemphasizing the importance of sexuality in human life; developing new types of nonsexual relationships; constituting asexuality as a sexual orientation or identity; and engaging in community building and outreach. I argue that some of these practices offer only a limited disruption of compulsory sexuality, but some of these practices pose a radical challenge to sexual norms by calling into question the widespread assumption that sexuality is a necessary part of human flourishing.}, pages = {991--1013}, number = {8}, journaltitle = {Journal of Homosexuality}, shortjournal = {Journal of Homosexuality}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2017-07-03}, langid = {english}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/A3DXUURX/Gupta - 2017 - “And Now I’m Just Different, but There’s Nothing A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @inproceedings{todo_assexualidades_2015, location = {Bauru (Brasil)}, title = {(As)sexualidade(s): Interseção no mundo virtual e no real}, isbn = {978-85-98176-73-4}, url = {https://www.faac.unesp.br/Home/Departamentos/CienciasHumanas45/anais-completo-compressed.pdf}, abstract = {(...) Metodologia: Este trabalho trata-se de um relato de experiência em minha nova posição de administradora em um grupo no facebook, que tem 1482 membros. O grupo conta com 10 administradores e pedi para que eles me enviassem um texto livre que tratasse sobre a temática, de modo a explicar como chegaram até o grupo e qual a expectativa com o grupo virtual na vida real. Resultados: Quadro de administradores do grupo transformado. Uma das participantes disse que disse que acredita que o grupo no facebook tenha um papel importante em auxiliar os assexuais e até mesmo esclarecer a sociedade; a partir do momento que há uma identificação, sabendo que isso tem nome e é normal, as pessoas se sentem livres para reafirmar sua condição perante a sociedade sem medo, consequentemente desmitificando a visão que se tem sobre assexualidade.}, eventtitle = {{III} Seminário Internacional Gênero, Sexualidade e Mídia: do pessoal ao político}, pages = {102--105}, booktitle = {Anais do {III} Seminário Internacional Gênero, Sexualidade e Mídia}, author = {Todo, Gabriela A.M.G.L.}, date = {2015}, langid = {portuguese}, } @thesis{santos_assexualidades_2016, location = {São Paulo (Brasil)}, title = {({AS})Sexualidades: processo de subjetivação e resistência}, url = {https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19428}, abstract = {The term asexuality is understood in this work as a sexuality array characterized by the absence of sexual attraction or/and sexual activity. Asexuality has become of popular interest over the last years as the mainstream media has given some attention to the subject. Seen as a “novelty” in sexual multiplicities, it still needs further research. This dissertation embraces a theoretical investigation, approaching the locus of communities in virtual space and support forums. It addresses the problem of conceptualization and apprehension of asexuality in a context which many of its features are tangled in essentialist discourses (that define it as a fourth sexual orientation), political and identity discourses (especially when it becomes a movement fighting for recognition — observed in the major asexual communities), or in subject's singular processes. On the other hand, it also can be problematized through the queer approach directed at deconstructing and subverting heteronormative sexuality, as asexuality phenomena also strengthens the struggle and creation of that “new” that disturbs the status quo. People who think of themselves as asexual are beyond the limits of normative sexuality. They affirm that their condition is not a result of trauma, sexual repression, hormonal problems, religious choice, or explained by any other regulatory discourse. Thus, the discussion proposed here indicates that asexual people show rhizomatic and polymorphic sexuality. Although asexuality is encompassed in historical and social conditions that still nourish conservative and colonial thoughts, the conclusion of this work suggests that sexuality may be viewed as a line of flight and, therefore, it entails a micro-political force that struggles to prevent its own suppression as well as its weakening}, pagetotal = {81}, institution = {Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo}, type = {Master thesis}, author = {Santos, Valéria Konc dos}, date = {2016}, langid = {portuguese}, } @incollection{de_lappe_asexual_2016, title = {Asexual Activism}, rights = {Copyright © 2016 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, isbn = {978-1-118-66321-9}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss663}, abstract = {Asexual activism is associated with the increasing public visibility of asexual identities and orientation. Although it is linked to older sexual and gender social movements, such as the various {LGBT}+ movements, there are key differences. Asexual activism has been facilitated by the Internet; the proliferation of asexual-orientated blogs, websites, and digital online communities such as {AVEN} (The Asexual Visibility and Education Network) have enabled its rapid progression. It can therefore also be labeled a digital social movement that impacts upon its character and aims. Like many sexual and gender social movements, asexual activism has a contentious strand, a lifestyle strand, and an identity strand. Each of these involves different repertoires of action and engagement. However, they can be characterized by a common desire to promote the visibility of asexual identities and orientations within and without the asexual community, to safeguard their citizenship and rights. They can also be characterized by a desire to challenge the sexual imperative (the tacit assumption that to lead a healthy life one must lead a sexually active life).}, pages = {1--2}, booktitle = {The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies}, publisher = {American Cancer Society}, author = {de Lappe, Joseph}, urldate = {2020-09-27}, date = {2016}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss663}, note = {\_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss663}, keywords = {activism, movements, sexual citizenship, sexual minorities, sexual politics}, } @incollection{gochros_asexual_1977, title = {Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups}, isbn = {978-0-8096-1915-3}, booktitle = {The Sexually oppressed}, publisher = {Association Press}, author = {Johnson, Myra T}, editor = {Gochros, Harvey L. and Gochros, Jean S.}, date = {1977}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: sw9mAAAAIAAJ}, } @misc{johnson_asexual_1977, title = {Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups (Chapter 7)}, author = {Johnson, Myra}, date = {1977}, } @misc{johnson_asexual_1977-1, title = {Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups (Chapter 7)}, author = {Johnson, Myra}, date = {1977}, } @article{rothblum_asexual_2019, title = {Asexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Population-Based Study of Sexual Minorities}, volume = {49}, doi = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01485-0}, abstract = {Using a U.S. population-based sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual ({LGB}) and other sexual minority (e.g., queer-identified) people, we compared those who identified as asexual (n = 19; 1.66\%) and those who were non-asexual (n = 1504; 98.34\%). Compared to non-asexual respondents, asexual respondents were more likely to be women or gender non-binary and belong to a younger (ages 18–27) cohort. Asexual individuals were also less likely to have had sex in the past 5 years, compared to non-asexual men, women, and gender non-binary participants, and also reported lower levels of sexual attraction to cisgender men and women than non-asexual women and men, respectively. However, asexual participants did not differ from non-asexual participants in being in an intimate relationship. Asexual respondents felt more stigma than non-asexual men and women, and asexuals reported more everyday discrimination than did non-asexual men. Asexual and non-asexual respondents did not differ in their sense of connectedness to the {LGB} community. Asexual and non-asexual respondents were as likely to be out to all family, all friends, and all co-workers, but fewer asexual participants were out to all healthcare providers than non-asexual men. The two groups were similar in general well-being, life satisfaction, and social support. In conclusion, asexual identity is an infrequent but unique identity, and one that has the potential to expand the concept of queer identity as well as to destabilize the foregrounding of sexual behavior.}, pages = {757--767}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, author = {Rothblum, Esther D. and Krueger, Evan A. and Kittle, Krystal R. and Meyer, Ilan H.}, date = {2019-06-18}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/6CB7VY57/Rothblum et al. - 2019 - Asexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Po.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{mollet_asexual_2018, title = {Asexual Borderlands: Asexual Collegians' Reflections on Inclusion Under the {LGBTQ} Umbrella}, volume = {59}, issn = {1543-3382}, url = {http://muse.jhu.edu/article/703303}, doi = {10.1353/csd.2018.0058}, shorttitle = {Asexual Borderlands}, pages = {623--628}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Journal of College Student Development}, author = {Mollet, Amanda L. and Lackman, Brian R.}, urldate = {2018-10-12}, date = {2018-09-14}, langid = {english}, } @book{przybylo_asexual_2019, location = {Columbus}, title = {Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality}, isbn = {978-0-8142-1404-6}, url = {https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214046.html}, abstract = {Challenging what she sees as an obsession with sex and sexuality, Ela Przybylo examines the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking—turning to Audre Lorde’s work on erotics to propose instead an approach she calls asexual erotics, an alternative language for discussing forms of intimacy that are not reducible to sex and sexuality. Beginning with the late 1960s as a time when compulsory sexuality intensified and became increasingly tied to feminist, lesbian, and queer notions of empowerment, politics, and subjectivity, Przybylo looks to feminist political celibacy/asexuality, lesbian bed death, the asexual queer child, and the aging spinster as four figures that are asexually resonant and which benefit from an asexual reading—that is, from being read in an asexually affirming rather than asexually skeptical manner. Through a wide-ranging analysis of pivotal queer, feminist, and anti-racist movements; television and film; art and photography; and fiction, nonfiction, and theoretical texts, each chapter explores asexual erotics and demonstrates how asexuality has been vital to the formulation of intimate ways of knowing and being. Asexual Erotics assembles a compendium of asexual possibilities that speaks against the centralization of sex and sexuality, asking that we consider the ways in which compulsory sexuality is detrimental not only to asexual and nonsexual people but to all.}, pagetotal = {252}, publisher = {The Ohio State University Press}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, date = {2019-08}, langid = {english}, } @article{greaves_asexual_2017, title = {Asexual Identity in a New Zealand National Sample: Demographics, Well-Being, and Health}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-0977-6}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-017-0977-6}, shorttitle = {Asexual Identity in a New Zealand National Sample}, abstract = {Academic interest in asexuality has increased in recent years; however, there is yet to be a national probability study exploring the correlates of self-identifying as asexual. Here, we utilized data from the 2014/15 New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. Past research has typically used attraction-based measures; however, we asked participants to describe their sexual orientation using a self-generated, open-ended item, and 0.4\% (n = 44) self-identified as asexual. We then compared self-identified asexual participants with a heterosexual reference group (n = 11,822) across a large number of demographic, psychological, and health variables. Relative to heterosexuals, self-identified asexual participants were (1) more likely to be women, and (2) substantially less likely to be cisgender, (3) in a serious romantic relationship, or (4) a parent. No deleterious mental or physical health effects were associated with asexuality when compared to heterosexuality. This study provides the first attempt at measuring self-identification as asexual in a national sample and highlights core similarities and differences between those who identify as asexual and heterosexual.}, pages = {1--11}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Greaves, Lara M. and Barlow, Fiona Kate and Huang, Yanshu and Stronge, Samantha and Fraser, Gloria and Sibley, Chris G.}, urldate = {2017-04-05}, date = {2017-03-30}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{ruspini_asexual_2013, title = {Asexual Men and Women: Living without Sex}, url = {http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo15552761.html}, abstract = {As the variety and number of nontraditional families grow, so does the need for new models of family and parenthood. Diversity in Family Life discusses the relationship between shifting gender identities and the processes of family formation, examining non-traditional family structures, including asexual couples, child-free couples, living-apart-together couples, single parents, and homosexual and transsexual parents. Calling for bold reformulations, it argues that it is possible to live, love, and form a family in an astounding variety of ways.}, booktitle = {Diversity in Family Life}, author = {Ruspini, Elisabeta}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2013}, } @thesis{deutsch_asexual_2018, location = {New York}, title = {Asexual People’s Experience with Microaggressions}, url = {https://academicworks.cuny.edu/jj_etds/52/}, abstract = {Asexuality as a non-heterosexual identity is a target of microaggressions similar to those experienced by other non-heterosexual identities. In this study asexual participants reported experiencing invalidation, sexual normativity/romantic normativity, pathologization, ignorance, general {LGBTQIAP}+ prejudice, dehumanization, rejection, disappointment, infantilization, tokenization, sexual threats/pressure, and sexual assault/corrective rape. These microaggressions came from various sources; family, partners/potential partners, friends/acquaintances, medical professionals, media, school systems, other {LGBTQIAP}+ people, and religious institutions. These led to emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions. Participants also reported negative mental health outcomes they linked to these microaggressions.}, pagetotal = {44}, institution = {City University of New York}, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Deutsch, Tamara}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @online{copulsky_asexual_2016, title = {Asexual Polyamory Potential Challenges and Benefits}, url = {http://journalofpositivesexuality.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Asexual-Polyamory-Potential-Challenges-and-Benefits-Copulsky.pdf}, author = {Copulsky, Dan}, urldate = {2017-05-08}, date = {2016-04}, } @incollection{scherrer_asexual_2010, location = {New York}, title = {Asexual relationships: What does asexuality have to do with polyamory}, url = {http://www.pinktherapy.com/portals/0/CourseResources/AsexualityAndPolyamoury.pdf}, abstract = {Popular understandings about polyamories and non-monogamies largely focus on sex and sexual intimacy. Yet, to what extent do these ideas need to necessarily accompany each other? What might a discussion of polyamory look like without a focus on sexual behaviors? An investigation of asexual identities reveals new possibilities for conceptualizing polyamories and non-monogamies. In this chapter I provide a brief description of the intersections of asexual identity and polyamory, an under-represented topic in academic literature. This chapter contributes to a burgeoning field of scholarship on polyamories through a description of how individuals with asexual identities inform understandings of polyamory and monogamy, opening up space to consider the intricacies of relationships.}, pages = {154--159}, booktitle = {Understanding Non-Monogamies}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, author = {Scherrer, Kristin S.}, editor = {Barker, M and Langdridge, B}, date = {2010}, langid = {english}, } @article{przybylo_asexual_2014, title = {Asexual Resonances Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive}, volume = {20}, issn = {1064-2684, 1527-9375}, url = {http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/20/3/297}, doi = {10.1215/10642684-2422683}, abstract = {This article works on two axes: first, employing queer archiving to push at the parameters of what might “count” as asexuality, and second, addressing feminist and queer inattentiveness to asexuality through rethinking queerness from asexual perspectives. We argue that an attunement to asexual “resonances,” however subjective and impossible to measure, makes possible the imagining of a queerly asexual archive, an archive that troubles current understandings of both asexuality and queerness. Throughout, we make two central contributions that challenge both queerness and asexuality. First, we assert that where there is queerness, there is also asexuality. Second, we seek to demonstrate the pervasiveness of asexuality, not by proving its statistical significance, but by shifting away from identity toward a broader understanding of asexuality.}, pages = {297--318}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {{GLQ}: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies}, shortjournal = {{GLQ}: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies}, author = {Przybylo, Ela and Cooper, Danielle}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2014-01-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/JR38TQTK/Przybylo and Cooper - 2014 - Asexual Resonances Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archi.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{haefner_asexual_2011, location = {Palo Alto}, title = {Asexual scripts: a grounded theory inquiry into the intraphysic scripts asexuals use to negotiate romantic relationships}, url = {https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/pubnum/3457969.html}, abstract = {This grounded theory inquiry sought to generate a mid-range theory proposing how asexuals negotiate romantic relationships. Two online surveys were posted on the Asexuality and Visibility Education Network ({AVEN}) website. Sixty-four participants completed either 1 or both of the surveys for a total of 74 responses. As demonstrated through thick description culled from the data, an important feature of negotiating romantic relationships for the participants in this study was a process called naming. There were 3 areas of naming found in the data: Naming the Norm, Naming Asexuality in Relationship, and Naming Asexuality for Self. Though the areas of naming identified in this study represent the internalized meaning of being asexual in a sexualized society, the areas of naming also correspond to the 3 categories of scripting identified by Simon and Gagnon and explained in sexual script theory ({SST}). The areas of naming suggest that the heteronormative paradigm, with its prescriptive model of what a romantic relationship is and how individuals should engage in romantic relationships, affects asexuals at many levels including experiencing themselves as different from the norm, engaging in or choosing not to engage in romantic relationships, and perceiving themselves as asexual beings.}, pagetotal = {201}, institution = {Institute of Transpersonal Psychology}, type = {Doctoral theses}, author = {Haefner, Carol}, date = {2011}, } @article{foster_asexual-identified_2014, title = {Asexual-identified clients in clinical settings: Implications for culturally competent practice}, volume = {1}, rights = {(c) 2016 {APA}, all rights reserved}, issn = {2329-0390 2329-0382}, doi = {10.1037/sgd0000058}, shorttitle = {Asexual-identified clients in clinical settings}, abstract = {This study utilizes qualitative survey responses with 86 asexual-identified people to explore their experience in clinical settings. Findings indicate that asexuality is experienced as a healthy sexual orientation. Although asexual people often expect bias from practitioners, they also indicated experiences and opportunities for affirming approaches to care. Utilizing multicultural competence situated within a larger affirmative practice framework reveals formative strategies in providing quality care for asexual-identified clients. These strategies for creating safe spaces for asexual-identified clients to disclose and discuss their experiences are discussed. Further, additional areas of inquiry are recommended to expand our knowledge around issues that impact asexual communities.}, pages = {422--430}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity}, author = {Foster, Aasha B. and Scherrer, Kristin S.}, date = {2014}, } @article{portillo_asexualidad_2011, title = {Asexualidad}, volume = {12}, issn = {1067-6079}, url = {http://www.inppares.org/sites/default/files/Asexualidad_M%C3%A9xico.pdf}, abstract = {Approximately 1\% of the population self-identifies as asexual. These individuals are physical and psychological healthy woman and men that report significantly less desire for sex and lower sexual arousal. A similar proportion of men and women identified themselves as asexual. However, asexuals have a desire to form intimate romantic long-term stable relationships. In several mammalian species males will not mate despite the fact that they area repeatedly exposed to sexually receptive females. These non copulating males could be the equivalent to asexual individuals, suggesting that the lack of desire and sexual arousal characteristic of the asexuals has an important biological component.}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Revista Digital Universitaria}, author = {Portillo, Wendy and Paredes, Raúl}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2011}, langid = {spanish}, } @thesis{montanez_albarracin_asexualidad_2016, location = {Pamplona (Colombia)}, title = {Asexualidad en el adulto joven: una mirada exploratoria}, url = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzjSk5YhNekGSkw1Z3ZiR1V4endPYzNLS1dQWktJVTBla0pv/view}, abstract = {The current research aims at describing the discovery process and acceptation of three asexual people's sexual orientation, Which refers to the recognition that the asexual person makes regarding his own sexual orientation and his identification, using the qualitative method throughout the case study technique, documenting that process to allow the realization of theoretical contributions about the sexual orientation contrasting these results with the examined theoretical references. It was evident that the discovery process of sexuality carries numerous obstacles and difficulties, generating a crisis of identify that implies difficulties of self-perception, self-concept and self-confidence to social interaction. However , once this crisis of identify is solved and the person is able to face the effects that this implies, assuming this as a part of himself, a common sexual expression, that breaks the traditional schemes as part of the well-known peripheral sexualities that go beyond of the established dichotomous parameters by the society.}, pagetotal = {141}, institution = {Universidad de Pamplona}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Montañez Albarracín, Faryd and Vera Suescúm, Nathalie}, date = {2016}, } @inproceedings{soria_asexualidad_2013, location = {La Plata (Argentina)}, title = {Asexualidad: análisis de definiciones vigentes a partir de operadores teóricos}, url = {http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/47812}, abstract = {El presente trabajo forma parte del recorrido propuesto en el marco de la investigación titulada “La categoría de asexualidad desde un abordaje psicoanalítico”, cuyo objetivo principal consiste en explorar dicha categoría a partir de las definiciones que han sido propuestas en los últimos años (cf. Bogaert, 2006, 2012; Prause \& Graham, 2007), y a fines de apreciar su alcance para nombrar un modo novedoso de posicionamiento subjetivo en materia sexual. A partir de lo señalado previamente, el presente escrito lleva adelante un trabajo de análisis y revisión bibliográfica de fuentes relevantes, que forma parte de la fase inicial del proyecto.}, eventtitle = {{IV} Congreso Internacional de Investigación de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata}, pages = {547--548}, author = {Soria, Lucía Mariana}, date = {2013}, } @inproceedings{barreiro_asexualidad_2009, location = {La Plata, Argentina}, title = {Asexualidad: Aportes psicológicos para su investigación}, rights = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10915/17380}, shorttitle = {Asexualidad}, abstract = {El presente trabajo de investigación sobre la asexualidad, realizado durante el 2007 (y revisado durante el 2008) bajo la supervisión de la cátedra de Psicología Experimental de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, tiene por objetivo principal indagar si la misma podría ser explicada total o parcialmente desde la Teoría Psicoanalítica (clásica y la relectura lacaniana) o la Psiquiatría, de acuerdo a rasgos comunes de los integrantes de la muestra (N=13).}, eventtitle = {{II} Congreso Internacional de Investigación de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata "Psicología y construcción de conocimiento en la época"}, author = {Barreiro, Cintia Sonia and Gubaro, María Florencia and Capodiferro Guiotto, Cintia and Gottardo, Valeria and Sabella, Irene}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2009}, langid = {spanish}, note = {Summary of the conference paper.}, } @thesis{blanco_fuente_asexualidad_2014, location = {Madrid (España)}, title = {Asexualidad: la construcción biológica y cultural del deseo}, url = {http://es.asexuality.org/files/TFG%20DEFINITIVO%201-1.pdf}, abstract = {[…] este proyecto pretende asentar unos pilares para presentar la asexualidad, no solo como una condición más del ser humano, sino como una interseccionalidad que pone de manifiesto unas jerarquías políticosociales que apenas se han tratado en profundidad en las distintas disciplinas académicas. Para ello, se expondrá una cronología de asunción de la asexualidad en los distintos campos de saber-poder. Estos son: la ciencia y la cultura, es decir, de la medicalización a la despatologización. En este proceso, resulta muy relevante la creación de la comunidad asexual online como parte interna de esta perspectiva cultural. Como resultado, hemos considerado necesario analizar la voz de esta comunidad para comprobar hasta qué punto la asexualidad se puede convertir en un discurso biopolítico sin precedentes.}, pagetotal = {93}, institution = {Universidad Complutense de Madrid}, type = {Tesis de grado}, author = {Blanco Fuente, Irene and Tello Estévez, Sonia}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2014}, } @article{lugones_botell_asexualidad_2015, title = {Asexualidad: la cuarta dimensión sexual}, volume = {31}, issn = {{ISSN} 1561-3038}, url = {http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0864-21252015000200014}, abstract = {Sigmund Freud, quien estudió el devenir sexual del ser humano, sus características principales y sus conflictos, hasta concluir que la sexualidad desempeña un rol determinante en la vida y en la psiquis del ser humano, estaría sorprendido de advertir que, en los albores del siglo {XXI}, el sexo no provoca ni trasnocha al uno por ciento de la humanidad.1 Para estos millones de mujeres y hombres, la libido no es una energía vital del carácter, y Eros no está infranqueablemente unido a la relación corpórea entre dos. Esta consideración resulta ser una gran paradoja en un mundo que ha estimulado la hipersexualidad como norma, pero esa ‘rareza’ desnuda una realidad que parece no tener reverso: la cuarta dimensión sexual.[...]}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral}, author = {Lugones Botell, Miguel and Ramírez Bermúdez, Marieta}, urldate = {2017-01-17}, date = {2015}, } @inproceedings{soria_asexualidad_2013-1, title = {Asexualidad: primeras investigaciones, primeros interrogantes.}, url = {http://www.aacademica.org/000-054/824}, shorttitle = {{ASEXUALIDAD}}, booktitle = {V Congreso Internacional de Investigación y Práctica Profesional en Psicología {XX} Jornadas de Investigación Noveno Encuentro de Investigadores en Psicología del {MERCOSUR}}, publisher = {Facultad de Psicología-Universidad de Buenos Aires}, author = {Soria, Lucía}, urldate = {2017-01-16}, date = {2013}, } @article{arias_asexualidad_2019, title = {Asexualidad: revisión crítica del concepto}, volume = {16}, issn = {1794-5992, 2389-783X}, url = {https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7028049}, shorttitle = {Asexualidad}, abstract = {The concept of asexuality has recently taken on importance in the medical context. However, extensive polysemy is evident in scientific publications. The aim of the present review was to synthesize the concept of asexuality in biomedical publications. It Was designed a review and qualitative analysis of narrative reviews published between January 1, 2000 and June 30, 2018. Review followed the {PRISMA} recommendations suggested for this type of review. The search was conducted in {PubMed} and the Virtual Health Library. It was used as descriptors or keywords: asexuality and revision. A synthesis was made for the definition of asexuality in three steps: coding of the text 'line by line', the development of 'descriptive themes', and the generation of 'analytical themes', typical of qualitative analysis. Eight articles were included. The analytical themes showed four components for the definition of asexuality: attraction/sexual desire as the principal component, sexual relations, loving affective relationships, and self-identification. Asexuality is a multidimensional construct. It is necessary to reach a consensus for the criteria of the definition and thereby design instruments or interviews to define the prevalence and associated factors in different contexts.}, pages = {406--412}, issue = {Extra 2 (Mayo-Agosto)}, journaltitle = {Duazary: Revista internacional de Ciencias de la Salud}, author = {Arias, Adalberto Campo and Castillo, María José Guerra and Herazo, Edwin}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2019}, } @article{arias_asexualidad_2019-1, title = {Asexualidad: revisión crítica del concepto}, volume = {16}, issn = {1794-5992, 2389-783X}, url = {https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7028049}, shorttitle = {Asexualidad}, abstract = {The concept of asexuality has recently taken on importance in the medical context. However, extensive polysemy is evident in scientific publications. The aim of the present review was to synthesize the concept of asexuality in biomedical publications. It Was designed a review and qualitative analysis of narrative reviews published between January 1, 2000 and June 30, 2018. Review followed the {PRISMA} recommendations suggested for this type of review. The search was conducted in {PubMed} and the Virtual Health Library. It was used as descriptors or keywords: asexuality and revision. A synthesis was made for the definition of asexuality in three steps: coding of the text 'line by line', the development of 'descriptive themes', and the generation of 'analytical themes', typical of qualitative analysis. Eight articles were included. The analytical themes showed four components for the definition of asexuality: attraction/sexual desire as the principal component, sexual relations, loving affective relationships, and self-identification. Asexuality is a multidimensional construct. It is necessary to reach a consensus for the criteria of the definition and thereby design instruments or interviews to define the prevalence and associated factors in different contexts.}, pages = {406--412}, issue = {Extra 2 (Mayo-Agosto)}, journaltitle = {Duazary: Revista internacional de Ciencias de la Salud}, author = {Arias, Adalberto Campo and Castillo, María José Guerra and Herazo, Edwin}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2019}, } @article{campo_arias_asexualidad_2019, title = {Asexualidad: revisión crítica del concepto}, volume = {16}, issn = {1794-5992, 2389-783X}, url = {https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7028049}, shorttitle = {Asexualidad}, abstract = {The concept of asexuality has recently taken on importance in the medical context. However, extensive polysemy is evident in scientific publications. The aim of the present review was to synthesize the concept of asexuality in biomedical publications. It Was designed a review and qualitative analysis of narrative reviews published between January 1, 2000 and June 30, 2018. Review followed the {PRISMA} recommendations suggested for this type of review. The search was conducted in {PubMed} and the Virtual Health Library. It was used as descriptors or keywords: asexuality and revision. A synthesis was made for the definition of asexuality in three steps: coding of the text 'line by line', the development of 'descriptive themes', and the generation of 'analytical themes', typical of qualitative analysis. Eight articles were included. The analytical themes showed four components for the definition of asexuality: attraction/sexual desire as the principal component, sexual relations, loving affective relationships, and self-identification. Asexuality is a multidimensional construct. It is necessary to reach a consensus for the criteria of the definition and thereby design instruments or interviews to define the prevalence and associated factors in different contexts.}, pages = {406--412}, issue = {Extra 2 (Mayo-Agosto)}, journaltitle = {Duazary: Revista internacional de Ciencias de la Salud}, author = {Campo Arias, Adalberto and Guerra Castillo, María José and Herazo, Edwin}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2019}, } @thesis{blanco_fuente_asexualidad_2016, location = {Madrid, España}, title = {Asexualidad: un cuestionamiento del ordenamiento sexual}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/33071606/Trabajo_Fin_de_M%C3%A1ster._Asexualidad_un_cuestionamiento_del_ordenamiento_sexual}, abstract = {El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal analizar la construcción del discurso del colectivo asexual, así como determinar el modo en que se está constituyendo esta identidad, quiénes se ven representados en la misma, qué terminología se utiliza, etc. El trabajo no busca, sin embargo, determinar qué es o qué no es la asexualidad, sino focalizar la atención en la formación del movimiento y en las rupturas que este produce dentro del marco social. Además de la motivación fundamental citada, esta investigación persigue abordar también un análisis del medio en el que se ha gestado la asexualidad, es decir, una plataforma online, lo cual invita a conocer más su condición primaria de ciberidentidad. Asimismo, el trabajo pretende analizar la patologización que la conducta desarrollada por estas personas ha podido sufrir desde el ámbito científico-médico, unido a examinar el modo en que las personas asexuales se desenvuelven en un entorno que perciben como hipersexualizado y de qué manera tejen sus vínculos con las personas que desde el colectivo denominan alosexuales.}, pagetotal = {59}, institution = {Universidad Complutense de Madrid}, type = {Tesis de máster}, author = {Blanco Fuente, Irene}, date = {2016}, } @article{duran-avila_asexualidad_2021, title = {Asexualidad: un recorrido a lo largo de la historia y la medicina}, volume = {3}, rights = {Atribución-{NoComercial}-{SinDerivadas} 3.0 España}, issn = {2341-0361}, url = {https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/69184}, shorttitle = {Asexualidad}, abstract = {El origen de la asexualidad es bastante difuso y complejo, pues, aunque ha estado presente en el ser humano desde tiempos inmemoriales, es relativamente reciente. En 1950 aparece por vez primera con Kinsey y su escala («categoría X» = falta de atracción sexual). Sin embargo, son Storms y su modelo bidimensional de la sexualidad basado en el homo y heteroerotismo los que introdujeron el término de «asexualidad» como tal. La falta de conocimiento y la poca información sobre la asexualidad ha hecho que numerosas personas se sientan incomprendidas, incluso llegando a ser diagnosticadas con un trastorno mental. En este contexto, cabe señalar la labor del colectivo {AVENes} en la transmisión y difusión de información. Esta revisión aborda la asexualidad desde diversas perspectivas, como la histórica y la médica, así como la errónea concepción de la asexualidad como una disfunción sexual o incluso como un trastorno mental (trastorno de deseo sexual hipoactivo). Asimismo, se indica la prevalencia actual y su concepción hoy en día, siendo necesario entender la asexualidad como una orientación sexual.}, pages = {172--177}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Archivos de Medicina Universitaria}, author = {Durán-Ávila, José Javier}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2021-05}, } @thesis{riedemann_lorca_asexualidad_2016, location = {Santiago de Chile}, title = {Asexualidad: visibilidad y reconocimiento para una cuarta orientación sexual}, url = {https://bibliotecadigital.uchile.cl/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=uchile_alma21183595620003936&context=L&vid=56UDC_INST&search_scope=uchile_scope&tab=uchile_tab&lang=es_CL}, pagetotal = {97}, institution = {Universidad de Chile}, type = {Undergraduate thesis}, author = {Riedemann Lorca, Bárbara Consuelo}, date = {2016}, note = {Bárbara Riedemann also wrote 2 articles that include ace testimonials for the Chilean magazine Paula, one in 2014 (called "Las nuevas categorías sexuales") and one in 2017 (called "Soy asexual").}, } @thesis{krejcova_asexualita_2018, location = {Chequia}, title = {Asexualita - identifikace a sexualita}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/95186}, shorttitle = {Asexualita}, abstract = {The purpose of this thesis and its research is to cover the asexual community in terms of identification and characteristics of sexual life. In theoretical part the groups Gray-A, demisexual and aromantic are described. It compares the approaches of asexuality as a disorder and as a sexual orientation. It discusses asexuality and relationships, celibacy or physical contact. The research gathered data about group prevalence, self-identification, sexual preferencies –real as well as ideal, masturbation and pornography. The research sample accounted for 160 respondets from the {AVEN} forum. The online questionnaire was prepared especially for this thesis. The data are presented as whole as well as divided into two age groups –the younger (18-23) and older (24-59) group. The significant difference was found in these areas: usage of sex toys/objects of sexual pleasure, number of sexual partners, relationship status and the ageof first sexual intercourse. Theoretical part –in concordancy with research –shows, that a portion of asexuals: has relationships, uses pornography and sexual toys, is romantic and experiences various types of sex.}, pagetotal = {125}, institution = {Univerzita Karlova}, type = {Diploma Thesis}, author = {Krejčová, Alžběta}, date = {2018}, } @unpublished{carroll_asexualities_2020, title = {Asexualities 101}, url = {https://youtu.be/3Eyojn351G4}, author = {Carroll, Megan}, date = {2020-06}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{smith_asexualities_2017, title = {Asexualities and Media}, isbn = {978-1-351-68555-9}, abstract = {The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life. The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field, bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies, education, history, media studies, sexuality studies and sociology. The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives, as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries, queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos, sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography and erotica, and social and mobile media. The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual identity, bodies and media technologies.}, booktitle = {The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Karli June, Cerankowski and Kristina, Gupta}, editor = {Smith, Clarissa and Attwood, Feona and {McNair}, Brian}, date = {2017-08-09}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: x0IwDwAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Social Science / Media Studies}, } @collection{cerankowski_asexualities_2014, title = {Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Asexualities-Feminist-and-Queer-Perspectives/Cerankowski-Milks/p/book/9780415714426}, series = {Routledge Research in Gender and Society}, abstract = {What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume, the authors expand this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, disability, and medical discourse. Together, these essays challenge the ways in which we imagine gender and sexuality in relation to desire and sexual practice. Asexualities provides a critical reevaluation of even the most radical queer theorizations of sexuality. Going beyond a call for acceptance of asexuality as a legitimate and valid sexual orientation, the authors offer a critical examination of many of the most fundamental ways in which we categorize and index sexualities, desires, bodies, and practices.}, pagetotal = {396}, number = {40}, publisher = {Routledge/Taylor \& Francis}, editor = {Cerankowski, Karli June and Milks, Megan}, date = {2014}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{haefner_asexualities_2015, title = {Asexualities: Socio-Cultural Perspectives}, rights = {©2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland}, isbn = {978-3-319-17340-5 978-3-319-17341-2}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-17341-2_16}, series = {Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research}, shorttitle = {Asexualities}, abstract = {We explore the multi-layered concept of asexuality. After giving a brief history of the use of the term asexual, we explain and debunk some of the myths associated with the term, while offering a brief summary of some current literature. We clarify how asexual differs from celibacy and illuminate the particulars of asexuality compared to several Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnoses. By situating asexuality within a historical and current socio-cultural context, we examine the gap between self-identified asexuals’ experiences and cultural misunderstandings of asexualities. After briefly addressing diversity within the asexual community, we argue for several avenues of future research.}, pages = {273--285}, booktitle = {Handbook of the Sociology of Sexualities}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Haefner, Carol and Plante, Rebecca F.}, editor = {{DeLamater}, John and Plante, Rebecca F.}, urldate = {2017-01-02}, date = {2015}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-17341-2_16}, } @incollection{cerankowski_asexuality_2016, title = {Asexuality}, rights = {Copyright © 2016 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved.}, isbn = {978-1-118-66321-9}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss620/abstract}, abstract = {Asexuality, an orientation for people who do not experience sexual attraction, is largely based in a web community that began with the foundation of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network in 2001. The asexual movement has since passed through several phases of growth in terms of media attention, activism, and the production of scholarship. Asexuality can now be more complexly understood in relation to medical discourse and disorder, perspectives on disability and sexuality, and in the context of racial diversity, all in service of redefining and questioning sexual “normalcy.”}, booktitle = {The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd}, author = {Cerankowski, Karli June}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss620}, } @incollection{carrigan_asexuality_2015, title = {Asexuality}, rights = {©2015 Mark Carrigan}, isbn = {978-1-349-46671-9 978-1-137-34589-9}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137345899_2}, abstract = {What is ‘asexuality’? While answers to this question would once have predominantly involved references to biological processes, it is increasingly likely that someone asking this question will receive a rather different response: an asexual person is someone who does not experience sexual attraction.Bogaert (2004) was an early and influential contribution to the literature on asexuality reporting on a secondary analysis of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles ({NATSAL}), in which 1.05\% of participants reported never having experienced sexual attraction towards anyone. Follow-up studies on the next generation of {NATSAL} found 0.5\% of respondents falling into this category (Bogaert, 2012, p. 45). While asexual people are numerous, it is still difficult to be clear about how numerous they are. First, these results do not indicate identificationas asexual, but only experiences which have, in other instances, led people to identify as such. Second, there are important questions which can be raised about the criterion of having neverexperienced sexual attraction, reflecting different orientations to how we understand something like ‘asexuality’. The question “what is asexuality?” is much more complicated than it can initially seem.}, pages = {7--23}, booktitle = {The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan {UK}}, author = {Carrigan, Mark}, editor = {Richards, Christina and Barker, Meg John}, urldate = {2017-01-02}, date = {2015}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1057/9781137345899_2}, } @incollection{carrigan_asexuality_2015-1, title = {Asexuality}, rights = {©2015 Mark Carrigan}, isbn = {978-1-349-46671-9 978-1-137-34589-9}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137345899_2}, abstract = {What is ‘asexuality’? While answers to this question would once have predominantly involved references to biological processes, it is increasingly likely that someone asking this question will receive a rather different response: an asexual person is someone who does not experience sexual attraction.Bogaert (2004) was an early and influential contribution to the literature on asexuality reporting on a secondary analysis of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles ({NATSAL}), in which 1.05\% of participants reported never having experienced sexual attraction towards anyone. Follow-up studies on the next generation of {NATSAL} found 0.5\% of respondents falling into this category (Bogaert, 2012, p. 45). While asexual people are numerous, it is still difficult to be clear about how numerous they are. First, these results do not indicate identificationas asexual, but only experiences which have, in other instances, led people to identify as such. Second, there are important questions which can be raised about the criterion of having neverexperienced sexual attraction, reflecting different orientations to how we understand something like ‘asexuality’. The question “what is asexuality?” is much more complicated than it can initially seem.}, pages = {7--23}, booktitle = {The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan {UK}}, author = {Carrigan, Mark}, editor = {Richards, Christina and Barker, Meg John}, urldate = {2017-01-02}, date = {2015}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1057/9781137345899_2}, } @thesis{yule_asexuality_2016, title = {Asexuality : investigations into a lack of sexual attraction}, url = {https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0307296}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Human asexuality is generally defined as a lack of sexual attraction. Various theories have been proposed to explain how asexuality should best be conceptualized, including that asexuality should be classified as a sexual orientation, that it is due to a mental health difficulty, that it is an extreme variant of hypoactive sexual desire disorder ({HSDD}), or that some asexual individuals actually experience a paraphilia of some kind. This dissertation employed a series of Internet-based research studies to investigate these three topics: an examination into mental health correlates of asexuality, a comparison of asexual individuals with individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for {HSDD}, and an investigation into patterns of sexual fantasy among asexual individuals. By investigating these topics, I sought to test whether asexuality might be a psychopathology, sexual dysfunction, or a paraphilia, with the ultimate goal of testing my hypothesis that asexuality is, in fact, a unique sexual orientation. My findings suggested that asexuality may be associated with higher prevalence of mental health and interpersonal problems, including anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, psychoticism, and suicidality, but that it is not, itself, a mental disorder. I concluded that this may be in response to perceived stigma against their sexual orientation, which might lead to psychological symptoms, or that lack of sexual attraction may arise from an underlying difficulty such as Autism Spectrum Disorder. Next, I found that asexuality is unique from the well-known sexual dysfunction {HSDD}. In my test of whether asexuality was a paraphilia, I found that asexual individuals were less likely to masturbate than sexual individuals, and that they were more likely to report never having had a sexual fantasy. Further, there was a large amount of unexpected overlap in the content of sexual fantasies between asexual and sexual participants. Together, these findings suggest that at least some asexual individuals may have a paraphilia. Overall, this dissertation highlights that no single theory can explain asexuality, and underscores the diversity among the asexual population. This dissertation leads to a number of new hypotheses about the nature of asexuality that will be the focus of future research.}, institution = {University of British Columbia}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Yule, Morag Allison}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-08-03}, } @article{bogaert_asexuality_2012, title = {Asexuality and Autochorissexualism (Identity-Less Sexuality)}, volume = {41}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-012-9963-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-012-9963-1}, abstract = {I present evidence that target-oriented paraphilias may occur in some who report no sexual attraction for others or those who identify as asexual. One target-oriented paraphilia in some asexual people is a disconnection between their identity and a sexual target/object. I name this phenomenon autochorissexualism or “identity-less” sexuality.}, pages = {1513--1514}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, urldate = {2017-01-22}, date = {2012-12-01}, langid = {english}, keywords = {autochorissexualism}, } @article{canning_asexuality_2016, title = {Asexuality and Boundaries in Online Discourse}, url = {http://commons.emich.edu/honors/468}, journaltitle = {Senior Honors Theses}, author = {Canning, Dominique}, date = {2016-01-01}, } @article{lund_asexuality_2015, title = {Asexuality and Disability: Strange but Compatible Bedfellows}, volume = {33}, issn = {1573-6717}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11195-014-9378-0}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-014-9378-0}, shorttitle = {Asexuality and Disability}, abstract = {While the disability sexuality movement has long tried to distance itself from the usually incorrect assumption that people with disabilities are asexual, the growing asexuality visibility and education movement argues for recognition of asexuality—the lifelong, non-distressing absence of sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender—as a legitimate and non-pathological sexual orientation. Despite these seemly contradictory goals, however, both movements are representative of the movements of historically marginalized and medicalized groups towards greater acceptance and understanding. Accordingly, this article will begin with a brief discussion of theories and terminology related to asexuality in the general population. The remainder of the article will discuss (1) the history of asexuality as a forced assumption of people with disabilities; (2) intersectionality as it relates to asexuality and disability; and (3) the similarities between the asexuality and disability sexuality movements. Suggestions for future research are also provided.}, pages = {123--132}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Sexuality and Disability}, author = {Lund, Emily M. and Johnson, Bayley A.}, date = {2015}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{carroll_asexuality_2020, location = {Cham}, title = {Asexuality and Its Implications for {LGBTQ}-Parent Families}, isbn = {978-3-030-35610-1}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_11}, abstract = {Asexuality, most often defined as a lack of sexual attraction, has emerged as a relatively new sexual identity category, and very little research has yet to explore asexual families and parenting. In this chapter, I review the literature on asexuality and its implications for parenting research and {LGBTQ}-parent families. First, I explain the meanings of asexuality through a review of its competing definitions and the evolving vocabulary of sexual and romantic dispositions within the asexual community. I also examine the methodological issues that have made asexuality especially difficult to research and the growth of asexuality as an identity movement in resistance to pathologizing narratives of sexual dysfunction. Next, I examine intersections between asexuality and gender, race, class, and disability, with critical attention toward the relationship between asexuality and the broader {LGBTQ} umbrella. I then review existing knowledge of asexual individuals’ experiences of parenting, intimate relationships, and marginalization. Practitioners are urged to consider the validity of many types of intimacy as research on asexual parenting can further societal understandings of diverse expressions of love and family formation.}, pages = {185--198}, booktitle = {{LGBTQ}-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Carroll, Megan}, editor = {Goldberg, Abbie E. and Allen, Katherine R.}, urldate = {2020-09-07}, date = {2020}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_11}, keywords = {Aromantic, Asexual, Community, Identity, Intimacy, Marginalization, Relationships}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/RZZSZS3J/Carroll - 2020 - Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent F.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{carrigan_asexuality_2013, title = {Asexuality and Its Implications for Sexuality Studies}, volume = {Volume 4}, url = {https://markcarrigan.net/2013/11/26/asexuality-and-its-implications-for-sexuality-studies/}, abstract = {This is a pre-print of a paper published in Psychology of Sexualities Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, Autumn 2013. A copy of the final article can be obtained here.  While asexuality is usually defined as ‘…}, issue = {No. 1}, journaltitle = {Psychology of Sexualities Review}, author = {Carrigan, Mark}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013}, } @thesis{przybylo_asexuality_2011, title = {Asexuality and the feminist politics of ‘not doing it’}, institution = {University of Alberta}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Przybylo, Elzbieta}, date = {2011}, } @inproceedings{carroll_asexuality_2019, location = {New York, {NY}}, title = {Asexuality as the Next Frontier in Sociological Research on Sexualities}, url = {https://osf.io/tz9p7/}, eventtitle = {114th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association}, author = {Carroll, Megan}, date = {2019-08-13}, langid = {english}, } @article{kim_asexuality_2011, title = {Asexuality in disability narratives}, volume = {14}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460711406463}, doi = {10.1177/1363460711406463}, abstract = {This essay explores normative regulations of disabled people’s sexuality and its relationship with asexuality through narratives of disabled individuals. While asexuality has been persistently criticized as a damaging myth imposed on disabled people, individuals with disabilities who do not identify as sexual highlight the inseparable intersection between normality and sexuality. Disabled and asexual identity and its narratives reveal that asexuality is an embodiment neither to be eliminated, nor to be cured, and is a way of living that may or may not change. Claims for the sexual rights of desexualized minority groups mistakenly target asexuality and endorse a universal and persistent presence of sexual desire. The structurally and socially enforced asexuality and desexualization are distinguished from an asexual embodiment and perspective disidentifying oneself from sexuality.}, pages = {479--493}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Kim, Eunjung}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2011-08-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{carrigan_asexuality_2013-1, title = {Asexuality special theme issue editorial}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774160}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774160}, pages = {111--120}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Carrigan, Mark and Gupta, Kristina and Morrison, Todd G.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @article{copulsky_asexuality_2021, title = {Asexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality: Distinctions in Desire, Behavior, and Identity}, issn = {0022-4499, 1559-8519}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2021.2012113}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2021.2012113}, shorttitle = {Asexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality}, abstract = {As identities within the ace spectrum gain greater visibility in describing those who experience limited or no sexual attraction, it is vital to understand points of commonality and distinction among individuals who identify as asexual, graysexual, and demisexual. Among respondents to the Ace Community Survey, a large international sample of individuals who identify on the ace spectrum, we found that those who identified as asexual (n = 9,476, Mage = 22.3, 61.0\% female, 12.5\% male), graysexual (n = 1,698, Mage = 24.2, 58.8\% female, 16.5\% male), or demisexual (n = 1,442, Mage = 24.2, 62.8\% female, 12.6\% male) varied in indicators related to sexual desire, behavior, and identity. Asexual individuals were the least likely to be in a relationship, experience romantic attraction, or identify with orientation labels signifying genders of attraction such as straight, bisexual, heteroromantic, and biromantic. Asexual individuals were the most likely to identify as aromantic, graysexual individuals the most likely to identify as grayromantic, and demisexual individuals the most likely to identify as demiromantic. Asexual individuals also scored the lowest on measures of sex drive, personal disposition toward engaging in sex, and masturbation frequency, with graysexual individuals scoring lower than demisexual individuals on the first two.}, pages = {1--10}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, shortjournal = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Copulsky, Daniel and Hammack, Phillip L.}, urldate = {2022-03-08}, date = {2021-12-17}, langid = {english}, } @article{copulsky_asexuality_2021-1, title = {Asexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality: Distinctions in Desire, Behavior, and Identity}, issn = {0022-4499, 1559-8519}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2021.2012113}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2021.2012113}, shorttitle = {Asexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality}, abstract = {As identities within the ace spectrum gain greater visibility in describing those who experience limited or no sexual attraction, it is vital to understand points of commonality and distinction among individuals who identify as asexual, graysexual, and demisexual. Among respondents to the Ace Community Survey, a large international sample of individuals who identify on the ace spectrum, we found that those who identified as asexual (n = 9,476, Mage = 22.3, 61.0\% female, 12.5\% male), graysexual (n = 1,698, Mage = 24.2, 58.8\% female, 16.5\% male), or demisexual (n = 1,442, Mage = 24.2, 62.8\% female, 12.6\% male) varied in indicators related to sexual desire, behavior, and identity. Asexual individuals were the least likely to be in a relationship, experience romantic attraction, or identify with orientation labels signifying genders of attraction such as straight, bisexual, heteroromantic, and biromantic. Asexual individuals were the most likely to identify as aromantic, graysexual individuals the most likely to identify as grayromantic, and demisexual individuals the most likely to identify as demiromantic. Asexual individuals also scored the lowest on measures of sex drive, personal disposition toward engaging in sex, and masturbation frequency, with graysexual individuals scoring lower than demisexual individuals on the first two.}, pages = {1--10}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, shortjournal = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Copulsky, Daniel and Hammack, Phillip L.}, urldate = {2022-03-08}, date = {2021-12-17}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{chess_asexuality_2018, location = {Cham}, title = {Asexuality, Queer Chastity, and Adolescence in Early Modern Literature}, isbn = {978-3-319-72769-1}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72769-1_2}, abstract = {What if, at least in some cases, representations of early modern chastity and abstinence were about the disinterest itself, as an orientation and practice? This chapter argues that early modern authors used tropes of youth, chastity, and virginity to explore the option of asexuality in their works. When adolescent characters resist or opt out of sex and marriage, that resistance articulates a queer option outside of hetero- and homosexual constructions of sexuality. The existence of asexual adolescent characters in early modern texts (including Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis” and Merry Wives of Windsor and Brome’s The Antipodes) presents the possibility of sexual preference and practice that, by its very definition, undermines the assumption that sexual desire is natural and biologically inevitable.}, pages = {31--55}, booktitle = {Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Chess, Simone}, editor = {Higginbotham, Jennifer and Johnston, Mark Albert}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-72769-1_2}, } @article{brotto_asexuality_2010, title = {Asexuality: A Mixed-Methods Approach}, volume = {39}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-008-9434-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-008-9434-x}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Current definitions of asexuality focus on sexual attraction, sexual behavior, and lack of sexual orientation or sexual excitation; however, the extent to which these definitions are accepted by self-identified asexuals is unknown. The goal of Study 1 was to examine relationship characteristics, frequency of sexual behaviors, sexual difficulties and distress, psychopathology, interpersonal functioning, and alexithymia in 187 asexuals recruited from the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network ({AVEN}). Asexual men (n = 54) and women (n = 133) completed validated questionnaires online. Sexual response was lower than normative data and was not experienced as distressing, and masturbation frequency in males was similar to available data for sexual men. Social withdrawal was the most elevated personality subscale; however, interpersonal functioning was in the normal range. Alexithymia was elevated in 12\%. Social desirability was also in the normal range. Study 2 was designed to expand upon these quantitative findings with 15 asexuals from Study 1 through in-depth telephone interviews. The findings suggest that asexuality is best conceptualized as a lack of sexual attraction; however, asexuals varied greatly in their experience of sexual response and behavior. Asexuals partnered with sexuals acknowledged having to “negotiate” sexual activity. There were not higher rates of psychopathology among asexuals; however, a subset might fit the criteria for Schizoid Personality Disorder. There was also strong opposition to viewing asexuality as an extreme case of sexual desire disorder. Finally, asexuals were very motivated to liaise with sex researchers to further the scientific study of asexuality.}, pages = {599--618}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Knudson, Gail and Inskip, Jess and Rhodes, Katherine and Erskine, Yvonne}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2010-06-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{brotto_asexuality_2010-1, title = {Asexuality: A Mixed-Methods Approach}, volume = {39}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-008-9434-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-008-9434-x}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, pages = {599--618}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Knudson, Gail and Inskip, Jess and Rhodes, Katherine and Erskine, Yvonne}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2010-06}, langid = {english}, } @article{van_houdenhove_asexuality_2015, title = {Asexuality: A Multidimensional Approach}, volume = {52}, issn = {0022-4499, 1559-8519}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2014.898015}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2014.898015}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, pages = {669--678}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Van Houdenhove, Ellen and Gijs, Luk and T'Sjoen, Guy and Enzlin, Paul}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2015-07-24}, langid = {english}, } @article{carey_asexuality_2016, title = {Asexuality: A Study on Knowledge and Perceptions}, volume = {0}, url = {http://www.ncurproceedings.org/ojs/index.php/NCUR2016/article/view/1860}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {As individuals have become more aware of the range of sexual identification, research has become more widely available. We have, over the years, learned a great deal concerning opinions and factual knowledge from heterosexual individuals concerning what homosexuality means, where it lies on the sexuality spectrum, as well as the negative/positive attitudes towards lesbians and gay men. The current study focuses on asexuality, which is a part of the sexual identification spectrum. Asexuality is defined as individuals who “do not experience sexual attraction,” who have never felt sexual attraction to “anyone at all,” or who have no “sexual interest.” Conducting this research provided the measurement of knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and biases towards asexuality in comparison to other sexual orientations. Participants were asked to answer an anonymous demographic survey developed by the experimenters. In a two part study, participants in study one completed a demographic survey as well as a questionnaire about sexual orientation and awareness from the Miami University Diversity Awareness Scale ({MUDAS}). Ultimately, the data collected provides an estimate of knowledge concerning asexuality. The results indicated that the majority of the undergraduate sample was able to accurately define asexuality. Individuals who were not aware of this sexual orientation tended to confuse asexuality with pansexuality or other sexual orientations, believed the term was related to reproducing without a partner, or had no ability to define the term. The second study focuses on the attitudes of a general population sample towards asexuality based on their responses to an adaptation of the Riddle Scale and a demographic survey. The data indicated heterosexuals would have a negative attitude or perception of asexuality. Overall, the goal of this research is to broaden the knowledge of asexuality while assessing the attitudes towards asexuality from the population sample.}, number = {0}, journaltitle = {2016 {NCUR}}, author = {Carey, Aidan and Austin, Alexis and Metcalf, Kristen and Wootten, Taylor}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-09-06}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{gazzola_asexuality_2012, title = {Asexuality: An Emergent Sexual Orientation}, pages = {3--20}, booktitle = {Sexual Minority Research in the New Millenium}, author = {Gazzola, S. B.}, editor = {Morrison, Todd G. and Morrison and Carrigan, Mark and {McDermott}, Daragh T.}, date = {2012}, } @article{brotto_asexuality_2015, title = {Asexuality: An Extreme Variant of Sexual Desire Disorder?}, volume = {12}, issn = {1743-6109}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12806/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/jsm.12806}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Introduction Human asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything. Various theories have been proposed to explain how asexuality should best be classified, and some have maintained that asexuality is an extreme variant of hypoactive sexual desire disorder ({HSDD})—a sexual dysfunction characterized by a lack of interest in sex and significant distress. To date, this has never been empirically examined. Aim and Method Using measures of sexual desire and behavior, sex-related distress, personality, and psychopathology, the aim of the current study was to compare individuals scoring above the cutoff for asexuality identification ({AIS} {\textgreater}40) (n = 192) to sexual individuals (n = 231). The sexual group was further divided into a control group (n = 122), a {HSDD} group (n = 50), and a group with symptoms of low desire that were nondistressing (n = 59). Results Analyses were controlled for age. Individuals in the {AIS} {\textgreater}40 group had a greater likelihood of never previously engaging in sexual intercourse, fantasies, or kissing and petting than all other groups and a lower likelihood of experiencing sex-related distress than those with {HSDD}. For women, those in the {HSDD} and {AIS} {\textgreater}40 groups had significantly lower desire than the subclinical {HSDD} and control groups. Men in the {AIS} {\textgreater}40 group had significantly lower desire than the other three groups. Symptoms of depression were highest among those with subclinical {HSDD} and {HSDD}, whereas there were no group differences on alexithymia or desirable responding. A binary logistic regression indicated that relationship status (long-term dating/married), sexual desire, sex-related distress, and lower alexithymia scores were the best predictors of group membership ({HSDD} vs. {AIS} {\textgreater}40). Conclusion Taken together, these results challenge the speculation that asexuality should be classified as a sexual dysfunction of low desire. Brotto {LA}, Yule {MA}, and Gorzalka {BB}. Asexuality: An extreme variant of sexual desire disorder? J Sex Med 2015;12:646–660.}, pages = {646--660}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sexual Medicine}, shortjournal = {J Sex Med}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Yule, Morag A. and Gorzalka, Boris B.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2015-03-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{prause_asexuality_2007, title = {Asexuality: Classification and Characterization}, volume = {36}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {The term “asexual” has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N = 4), individuals who self-identified as asexual were interviewed to help formulate hypotheses for a larger study. The second larger study was an online survey drawn from a convenience sample designed to better characterize asexuality and to test predictors of asexual identity. A convenience sample of 1,146 individuals (N = 41 self-identified asexual) completed online questionnaires assessing sexual history, sexual inhibition and excitation, sexual desire, and an open-response questionnaire concerning asexual identity. Asexuals reported significantly less desire for sex with a partner, lower sexual arousability, and lower sexual excitation but did not differ consistently from non-asexuals in their sexual inhibition scores or their desire to masturbate. Content analyses supported the idea that low sexual desire is the primary feature predicting asexual identity.}, pages = {341--356}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Prause, Nicole and Graham, Cynthia A.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2007-06-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/N32UGG5C/Prause and Graham - 2007 - Asexuality Classification and Characterization.pdf:application/pdf}, } @incollection{bogaert_asexuality_2008, location = {New York}, title = {Asexuality: Dysfunction or variation}, abstract = {Bogaert (2006) discussed whether asexuality, defined as a lack of sexual attraction, should be viewed as a dysfunction. He concluded that asexuality should not necessarily be viewed as a dysfunction. Here I review and expand on these arguments, including on the possible overlap with existing sexual dysfunctions (e.g., Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.) I also review existing research that bears on this question. For example, recent research (Bogaert, 2004, 2007) has suggested that physical health problems are not likely to be elevated in asexual people. Finally, I discuss what it might mean to have no sexual attraction to others, and whether some people who lack sexual attraction (but who still have sexual desire, e.g., masturbate) may have a paraphilia.}, pages = {pp. 9--13}, booktitle = {Psychological Sexual Dysfunctions}, publisher = {Nova Biomedical Books}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, editor = {Carol, J. M. and Alena, M. K.}, date = {2008}, } @article{van_houdenhove_asexuality_2013, title = {Asexuality: Few Facts, Many Questions}, volume = {40}, issn = {0092-623X}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2012.751073}, doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2012.751073}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Although there has been increasing interest in asexuality during the past decade, still little is known on this topic. To define asexuality, three different approaches have been proposed: a definition that is based on sexual behavior, one on sexual desire/sexual attraction, one on self-identification, and one on a combination of these. Depending on the definition used, reported prevalence rates range from 0.6\% to 5.5\%. In this article, the authors present characteristics of asexuality and review biological, psychological, and sociodemographic factors associated with asexuality. Given the suggestion of existing overlap with hypoactive sexual desire disorder, special attention is paid to similarities and differences between this condition and asexuality. It is further noted that theoretical models to understand (the etiology) of asexuality are underdeveloped.}, pages = {175--192}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, author = {Van Houdenhove, Ellen and Gijs, Luk and T’Sjoen, Guy and Enzlin, Paul}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-10-17}, pmid = {24134401}, } @article{van_houdenhove_asexuality_2014, title = {Asexuality: Few Facts, Many Questions}, volume = {40}, issn = {0092-623X, 1521-0715}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0092623X.2012.751073}, doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2012.751073}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, pages = {175--192}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, shortjournal = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, author = {Van Houdenhove, Ellen and Gijs, Luk and T’Sjoen, Guy and Enzlin, Paul}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2014-05-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{gressgard_asexuality_2013, title = {Asexuality: from pathology to identity and beyond}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774166}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774166}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {This article draws attention to the constitutive mechanisms of asexual identity. It identifies a shift in expert discourse: a move away from pathology towards recognition of asexual identity. While this discursive shift, propelled by recent research in psychology and sexology, could pave the way for the inclusion of asexuals in public culture, it also reaffirms dominant terms and formations pertaining to sexuality and intimacy. The article argues that the discursive formation of a new asexual identity takes place through a process of objectification and subjectification/subjection at the interface between expert disciplines and activism. The recognition of identity is constitutive of subjects that are particularly suitable for self-regulation within the parameters of (neo)liberal citizenship. Yet, at the same time, the discursive shift also makes room for critical intervention akin to queer critique of naturalised gender and sexuality norms. The recognition of asexual identity could serve to destabilise the sexual regime (of truth) that privileges sexual relationships against other affiliations and grants sexual-biological relationships a status as primary in the formation of family and kinship relations. The article concludes that asexual identity encourages us to imagine other pathways of affiliation and other concepts of personhood, beyond the tenets of liberal humanism – gesturing instead towards new configurations of the human and new meanings of sexual citizenship.}, pages = {179--192}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Gressgård, Randi}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @article{bogaert_asexuality_2004, title = {Asexuality: Prevalence and associated factors in a national probability sample}, volume = {41}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224490409552235}, doi = {10.1080/00224490409552235}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {I used data from a national probability sample (N {\textgreater} 18,000) of British residents to investigate asexuality, defined as having no sexual attraction to a partner of either sex. Approximately 1\%(n = 195) of the sample indicated they were asexual. A number of factors were related to asexuality, including gender (i.e., more women than men), religiosity, short stature, low education, low socioeconomic status, and poor health. Asexual women also had a later onset of menarche relative to sexual women. The results suggest that a number of pathways, both biological and psychosocial, contribute to the development of asexuality.}, pages = {279--287}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, urldate = {2017-01-22}, date = {2004-08-01}, pmid = {15497056}, keywords = {Prevalence Estimate}, } @article{conley-fonda_asexuality_2018, title = {Asexuality: Sexual Health Does Not Require Sex}, volume = {25}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10720162.2018.1475699}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2018.1475699}, abstract = {The working definition of sexual health published in this issue of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity promises to advance theory, research, practice, and training. The definition implicitly assumes that desire is a requirement of healthy sexuality. Recent emergence of research and advocacy for the asexual identity challenges the contemporary definition of sexual health and offers questions for reflective practice.}, pages = {6--11}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Sexual Addiction \& Compulsivity}, author = {Conley-Fonda, Brenna and Leisher, Taylor}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/YNPZUJ88/Conley-Fonda and Leisher - 2018 - Asexuality Sexual Health Does Not Require Sex.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{brotto_asexuality_2016, title = {Asexuality: Sexual Orientation, Paraphilia, Sexual Dysfunction, or None of the Above?}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Although lack of sexual attraction was first quantified by Kinsey, large-scale and systematic research on the prevalence and correlates of asexuality has only emerged over the past decade. Several theories have been posited to account for the nature of asexuality. The goal of this review was to consider the evidence for whether asexuality is best classified as a psychiatric syndrome (or a symptom of one), a sexual dysfunction, or a paraphilia. Based on the available science, we believe there is not sufficient evidence to support the categorization of asexuality as a psychiatric condition (or symptom of one) or as a disorder of sexual desire. There is some evidence that a subset of self-identified asexuals have a paraphilia. We also considered evidence supporting the classification of asexuality as a unique sexual orientation. We conclude that asexuality is a heterogeneous entity that likely meets conditions for a sexual orientation, and that researchers should further explore evidence for such a categorization.}, pages = {1--9}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Yule, Morag}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-08-19}, langid = {english}, } @article{brotto_asexuality_2017, title = {Asexuality: Sexual Orientation, Paraphilia, Sexual Dysfunction, or None of the Above?}, volume = {46}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Although lack of sexual attraction was first quantified by Kinsey, large-scale and systematic research on the prevalence and correlates of asexuality has only emerged over the past decade. Several theories have been posited to account for the nature of asexuality. The goal of this review was to consider the evidence for whether asexuality is best classified as a psychiatric syndrome (or a symptom of one), a sexual dysfunction, or a paraphilia. Based on the available science, we believe there is not sufficient evidence to support the categorization of asexuality as a psychiatric condition (or symptom of one) or as a disorder of sexual desire. There is some evidence that a subset of self-identified asexuals have a paraphilia. We also considered evidence supportingtheclassification ofasexuality asauniquesexual orientation. We conclude that asexuality is a heterogeneous entity that likely meets conditions for a sexual orientation, and that researchers should further explore evidence for such a categorization.}, pages = {619--627}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Yule, Morag}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2017-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{brotto_asexuality_2017-1, title = {Asexuality: Sexual Orientation, Paraphilia, Sexual Dysfunction, or None of the Above?}, volume = {46}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {Although lack of sexual attraction was first quantified by Kinsey, large-scale and systematic research on the prevalence and correlates of asexuality has only emerged over the past decade. Several theories have been posited to account for the nature of asexuality. The goal of this review was to consider the evidence for whether asexuality is best classified as a psychiatric syndrome (or a symptom of one), a sexual dysfunction, or a paraphilia. Based on the available science, we believe there is not sufficient evidence to support the categorization of asexuality as a psychiatric condition (or symptom of one) or as a disorder of sexual desire. There is some evidence that a subset of self-identified asexuals have a paraphilia. We also considered evidence supportingtheclassification ofasexuality asauniquesexual orientation. We conclude that asexuality is a heterogeneous entity that likely meets conditions for a sexual orientation, and that researchers should further explore evidence for such a categorization.}, pages = {619--627}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Yule, Morag}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2017-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{oliva-farrell_asexuality_2018, title = {Asexuality: To Include or Not to Include a Slice of Cake in the {LGBTQ}+ Community}, url = {https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=libraryprize}, journaltitle = {Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research}, author = {Oliva-Farrell, Devin}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{bogaert_asexuality_2015, title = {Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters}, volume = {52}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713}, shorttitle = {Asexuality}, abstract = {In this review article, human asexuality, a relatively understudied phenomenon, is discussed. Specifically, definitions and conceptualizations of asexuality (e.g., is it a unique category of sexual orientation?), biological and historical contexts, identity issues, discrimination against asexual people relative to other minorities, origins, and variations, including gender differences, are reviewed. Whether asexuality should be construed as a disorder is also discussed. The study of asexuality allows for a better understanding of an underrecognized sexual minority but also affords a unique opportunity to examine and better understand human sexuality.}, pages = {362--379}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, urldate = {2017-01-22}, date = {2015-05-04}, pmid = {25897566}, } @article{pinto_asexually_2014, title = {{ASEXUally}: On Being an Ally to the Asexual Community}, volume = {8}, issn = {1553-8605}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15538605.2014.960130}, doi = {10.1080/15538605.2014.960130}, shorttitle = {{ASEXUally}}, abstract = {The development of allies is crucial to the asexual population. The asexual community is among the most under- researched and poorly understood sexual minority populations. Through discussion of basic information on asexuality, the distinction between asexuality and a diagnosable disorder, and ways that other identities intersect with asexuality, this article offers a foundation and model for asexual ally development. Based on the information presented, recommendations for counselor and counselor educator allies who are working with asexual identified, or potentially asexual individuals, are presented. Suggestions for future research on asexuality are also explored.}, pages = {331--343}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Journal of {LGBT} Issues in Counseling}, author = {Pinto, Stacy Anne}, urldate = {2017-01-02}, date = {2014-10-02}, } @article{pinto_asexually_2014-1, title = {{ASEXUally}: On Being an Ally to the Asexual Community}, volume = {8}, issn = {1553-8605, 1553-8338}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15538605.2014.960130}, doi = {10.1080/15538605.2014.960130}, shorttitle = {{ASEXUally}}, abstract = {The development of allies is crucial to the asexual population. The asexual community is among the most under- researched and poorly understood sexual minority populations. Through discussion of basic information on asexuality, the distinction between asexuality and a diagnosable disorder, and ways that other identities intersect with asexuality, this article offers a foundation and model for asexual ally development. Based on the information presented, recommendations for counselor and counselor educator allies who are working with asexual identified, or potentially asexual individuals, are presented. Suggestions for future research on asexuality are also explored.}, pages = {331--343}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Journal of {LGBT} Issues in Counseling}, shortjournal = {Journal of {LGBT} Issues in Counseling}, author = {Pinto, Stacy Anne}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2014-10-02}, langid = {english}, } @article{przybylo_asexuals_2016, title = {Asexuals against the Cis-tem!}, volume = {3}, issn = {2328-9252, 2328-9260}, url = {http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/3/3-4/653}, doi = {10.1215/23289252-3545347}, pages = {653--660}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {{TSQ}: Transgender Studies Quarterly}, shortjournal = {{TSQ}}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-11-01}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{miyake_asexualaven_2007, location = {Yokohama}, title = {asexualのドラマトゥルギー―{AVENにおける定義の変遷に着目して} (asexual no doramaturugii―{AVEN} ni okeru teigi no hensen ni chakumoku shite)}, isbn = {978-4-86110-540-1}, url = {http://www.shumpu.com/portfolio/618/}, booktitle = {人生の調律師たち (Jinsei no Chouritsushi-tachi)}, publisher = {春風社 (Shumpusha)}, author = {Miyake, Daijiro (三宅大二郎)}, date = {2007-03}, langid = {japanese}, } @thesis{de_lappe_asexy_2018, title = {“Asexy and we know it”: The Emergence of Asexual Activism as a Sexual and Gender Social Movement}, url = {http://oro.open.ac.uk/58665/}, shorttitle = {“Asexy and we know it”}, abstract = {This thesis considers the emerging character of asexual activism in Western societies. It asks what the key factors are impacting on triggering, mobilisation, organisation and performance that motivate asexual-identified individuals into collective activism. It considers the significance of wider {LGBT}+ and Q activism exemplified by Pride as performed spectacle, as a factor influencing the character of contemporary asexual activism. This is considered both in terms of how the staging, setting and scripting of Pride speaks to asexual activists in the West, and, how they speak back to Pride as actor-activists, audience and bystanders to its political theatre. Methodologically, this thesis is based on 15 months of ethnographic research: online semi-structured interviews with asexual activists in both Europe and North America; auto-ethnographic participant-observation of Pride events in Europe and North America, and, specific case studies of {WorldPride} 2014 and Berlin Pride 2015. Theoretically, it draws cross-disciplinarily on: insights from Social Movement Theory, particularly recent work which emphasises the significance of emotive, cultural drama in contemporary activism; insights from Sexuality \& Gender Studies concerning scripted behaviour and {LGBT}+ and Q identity-formations, and, emerging research in Asexual Studies concerning asexual orientations, identities and socialised behaviours. The thesis emphasises the work of Goffmann (1971, 1974, 2017), Jasper (2008), Plummer (1994), Rubin (2011), Stallybrass and White (1986) and Tilly (1995) to analyse the presentation of the asexual activist self, the collective activist performances through which that self is embodied, and the interrelated asexual and Pride narratives that are contended. Through auto-ethnography it considers the researcher’s engagement with these contentious repertoires, as academic and participant-observer who is also an actor-activist, audience member and bystander. This analysis reveals a disconnect between the ongoing, framed scripting of Pride activism in the West and the emerging core-frames of asexual activist scripts; even as asexual activists seek alignment.}, pagetotal = {284}, institution = {The Open University}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {de Lappe, Joseph}, urldate = {2019-02-05}, date = {2018-12-04}, } @article{erro_asexy_2011, title = {Asexy Pioneer: Asexuality Versus Eroticism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!}, journaltitle = {Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature}, author = {Erro, N}, date = {2011}, } @incollection{oliveira_assexualidade_2012, location = {Brasília}, title = {Assexualidade e medicalização na mídia televisiva norte - americana}, isbn = {978-85-88551-72-5}, url = {http://generoeeducacao.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2012_Oliveira_Assexualidade-e-medicalizacao.pdf}, abstract = {O objetivo desdte artigo, além o de buscar uma aproximação ao conceito de assexualidade difundido pela {AVEN}, é registrar o discurso médico que atravessa as falas de terapeutas sexuais convidados a discutir este tema na mídia televisiva norte-americana em 2006 e 2007. Nesse sentido, esta introdução tratará algumas reflexões sobre o processo de medicalização da sexualidade - o qual afeta directamente a assexualidade -, considerando a legitimidade da área médica na produção de conhecimientos sobre sexualidade. Em segunda, será apresentada a {AVEN} (Asexuality Visibility and Education network) - comunidade assexual norte-americana fundada em 2001-, bem como um breve histórico da pesquisa científica sobre assexualidade. A seguir, será feita a apresentação dos programas televisivos norte-americanos que receberam indivíduos assexuais para entrevistas, concluindo com o registro e análise do discurso médico contido nas falas de terapeutas sexuais que falaram sobre a assexualidade nos programas.}, booktitle = {Minorias Sexuais: direitos e preconceitos}, publisher = {Editora Consultex}, author = {Oliveira, Elisabete R.B.}, date = {2012}, langid = {portuguese}, } @thesis{lemos_assexualidade_2011, location = {Aveiro (Portugal)}, title = {Assexualidade: factores de vulnerabilidade psicológica}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10773/8372}, abstract = {The present investigation sought to contribute to the understanding of the asexuality, specifically, sought to check if there were significant differences on the levels of beliefs, personality and psychopathology between asexual and non asexual women, in short, we tried to understand what psychological factors are associated to this almost unexplored area of the sexual variability. A total of 170 females with more than 18 years of age participated in the study. Two groups were created: Asexual Group (n = 85) (females who consider themselves asexual) and Control Group (n = 85) (non asexual females). All participants completed an online questionnaire that was consisted of: Introductory Questionnaire, Sexual Dysfunctional Beliefs Questionnaire ({SDBQ}; P. Nobre \& Pinto-Gouveia Gomes, 2003), Brief Symptom Inventory ({BSI}; Derogatis \& Spencer, 1982) and the {NEO} {FFI} (Costa and {McCrae}, 1992). The results showed that asexual females have lower frequency of sexual activity and are more believers and religion practitioners than the Control Group. As regards to sexual beliefs the results indicated that asexual females endorse significantly more dysfunctional sexual beliefs (conservatism, desire as a sin, age related beliefs and body image beliefs ). Regarding personality, results indicated that asexual females present significantly higer levels of neuroticism and lower levels of extraversion and conscientiousness. Finally the groups were not distinguished in relation to the presence of psychopathological symptomatology. In general, the results suggest that asexuality is independent from psychopathology mechanisms and that personality traits and sexual beliefs may work as predisposing factors for its manifestation.}, pagetotal = {36}, institution = {Universidade de Aveiro}, type = {Master thesis}, author = {Lemos, Diana da Silva Couto Manero de}, date = {2011}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{rozenthal_assexualidade_2018, title = {Assexualidade: um olhar psicanalítico para o futuro}, volume = {40}, url = {http://cprj.com.br/ojs-cprj/index.php/cadernosdepsicanalisecprj/article/view/26}, abstract = {In this article, I try to show that, from the perspective of psychoanalysis, unlike asexuality as sexual and gender identity, it is possible to establish it as the singularity of the subject. This crucial displacement elevates asexuality to the bodily force of creation level or force of sublimation. This one is capable of promoting the stylization of the subject, style meaning force of being what the subject is. The sublimation removes social ideals and the consequent disputes over recognition, allowing infinite sexualities to approach in the public space: each individual corresponds to a singular sexual identity. // Neste artigo, procuro mostrar que, sob a perspectiva da psicanálise, é possível, diferentemente da assexualidade como identidade e gênero sexual, estabelecê-la como singularidade do sujeito. Este deslocamento crucial eleva a assexualidade à força corporal da criação ou força de sublimação. Esta última é capaz de promover a estilização do sujeito, estilo tendo o sentido de força de ser o que o sujeito é. A sublimação afasta os ideais sociais e as consequentes disputas por reconhecimento, permitindo que sexualidades infinitas se aproximem no espaço público: a cada indivíduo corresponde, então, uma identidade sexual singular.}, pages = {111--124}, number = {38}, journaltitle = {Cadernos de Psicanálise}, author = {Rozenthal, Eduardo}, date = {2018}, langid = {portuguese}, } @book{dandrea_assexualidades_2017, location = {Brazil}, title = {Assexualidades em Trânsito: Deslocando sobre o arco-íris com tonalidades cinza e preto}, isbn = {978-85-947502-2-8}, shorttitle = {Assexualidades em Trânsito}, abstract = {Pesquisa que investiga os processos de subjetivação e a emergência da assexualidade no contemporâneo, observando algumas singularidades dessa população. Descreve a assexualidade como possibilidade de orientação sexual, entendida como um não desejo sexual e como ato político. Aponta para a despatologização da assexualidade e a necessidade dar visibilidade a ela, sustentando as relações de força presentes nessa orientação sexual.}, pagetotal = {144}, publisher = {Metanoia Editora}, author = {D'Andrea, Luigi}, date = {2017}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{bezerra_assexualidades_2018, title = {Assexualidades: perspectivas queer e feminista}, volume = {70}, issn = {1809-5267}, url = {http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1809-52672018000100021&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt}, shorttitle = {Assexualidades}, abstract = {[Book review]}, pages = {305--310}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia}, author = {Bezerra, Paulo Victor}, urldate = {2019-02-05}, date = {2018}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{marriage_autism_2009, title = {Autism Spectrum Disorder Grown Up: A Chart Review of Adult Functioning}, volume = {18}, issn = {1719-8429}, url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2765385/}, shorttitle = {Autism Spectrum Disorder Grown Up}, abstract = {Objective: To survey the adult functioning of patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder ({ASD}), and to compare the outcomes for those diagnosed in childhood with those diagnosed as adults. Methods: Using a chart review, we evaluated the adult outcomes for 45 individuals diagnosed with {ASD} prior to age 18, and compared this with the functioning of 35 patients whose {ASD} was identified after 18 years. Concurrent mental illnesses were noted for both groups. Results: Adult outcome was poorest for those with the combination of {ASD} and Intellectual Disability ({ID}). The sub- group of individuals with Autism identified in adulthood whose functioning was assessed after 25 years of age had achieved more in the areas of education and independent living. All three groups had a high frequency of psychiatric co-morbidity. Conclusion: While co-morbid {ID} and {ASD} generally imply a poor outcome, for children and youth with {ASD} and normal range {IQ}, adult functioning is more variable and difficult to predict. Because of delays in ongoing social development, some of these individuals may attain educational, independent living and relationship goals, but reach them a decade or more later than typical for the general population.}, pages = {322--328}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry}, shortjournal = {J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry}, author = {Marriage, Samantha and Wolverton, Annie and Marriage, Keith}, urldate = {2017-01-27}, date = {2009-11}, pmid = {19881941}, pmcid = {PMC2765385}, } @thesis{bezerra_avessos_2015, location = {Sao Paulo}, title = {Avessos do excesso: a assexualidade}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132159}, abstract = {The Asexuals define themselves as people who do not experience sexual attraccion. The idea of an asexual individual brings up discussions about the political uses of sex, calls into question the epistemology of sexuality and raises debates about contemporary modes of subjectification. This thesis presents the scientific development of asexuality and outlines some understanding on the issue. The first chapter provides a detailed narrative of all the scientific writings on asexuality, covering every article and book published until now, including the early sources that somehow are related to it. These researches were compiled intending to rebuild identify and contextualize the first mentions to the idea of asexuality as well as the unfolding of the asexual ́s virual communities, which boosted the scientific production on this field. It is noted that the scientific production on asexuality is much like the scientific production on sexuality, rendering the main focusses of the last: the widely held task of legitimating, universalizing and naturalizing, commonly under a biological approach, but it also contains a fewer critical works, aligned with the policies of identity and uses of sex. The second chapter takes asexuality, instead of the asexual individuals, as object of study. Grounded on some articles, on the virtual sites of meeting as well as on some contemporary psychosocial theorists, a possibility of understanding about the group is presented, identifying it as a virtual tribe. Moreover, the ideas of simulacra society, spectacle society, the semblance subject and the subjectivity built over immaterial labor, amongst others, are coordinated in order to comprehend the emergency of asexuality and its position in the present, picturing it as both a form of subjectivation and of resistance. The third chapter reaches to position asexuality within the readings of Foucault ́s History of Sexuality. The concept of sexuality device is presented and discussions about asexuality belonging or not to its subjectivities ́ line of production are made, pointing out the criteria of including or excluding asexuality to such device. It is concluded that asexuality is placed within the recent history of usages of sex, noting asexuality as a typical product of the sexuality device, once it relies on the same logical framework that it supposedly disapproves.}, pagetotal = {143}, institution = {Universidade Estadual Paulista}, type = {Doctoral thesis}, author = {Bezerra, Paulo Victor}, date = {2015-06-19}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{kakinuma__2013, title = {Aセクシャルにおける量的研究について――Aセクシャル論文のレビューⅡ (Asekusharu ni okeru ryoteki kenkyu ni tsuite : Asekusharu ronbun no rebyu(2))}, volume = {13}, issn = {1346-1478}, pages = {45--53}, number = {88}, journaltitle = {聖マリアンナ医学研究誌}, author = {Kakinuma, Kenji (柿沼賢治) and Fusegi, Makoto (布施木誠)}, date = {2013}, langid = {japanese}, } @article{elgie_being_2020, title = {{BEING} {AND} {DOING}: {INTERROGATING} {DOMINANT} {NARRATIVES} {OF} {ASEXUAL} {KINSHIP} {IN} {AN} {AMATONORMATIVE} {CULTURE}}, abstract = {Taking a sociological approach grounded in intersectionality and queer theory, this thesis traces and investigates online asexual discourse and identity politics in order to critically investigate the way that asexual culture and Western culture more broadly understands the intersections of friendship, kinship, adulthood, and intimacy. Recognizing the ways that asexual discourse has uncritically taken up problematic nationalist, neoliberal, and racialized understandings of romantic kinship in its identity politics is necessary in order to shift asexual discourse from a respectability and visibility politics with the aim of neoliberal assimilation to a political consciousness that queerly reinterprets the role of sexuality in forming kinship. I begin by tracing the history of online asexual discourse, situating the importance of this specific online culture to asexual worldmaking in a North American context. Here, I situate asexual theory in the context of amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality and find that asexual struggles for public recognition and legitimacy often rely on a problematic respectability politics based on notions of biologized, racialized, and gendered normalcy. Next, I investigate the deep cultural entanglements of the sexual and the romantic, calling into question the ontological underpinnings of the Split Attraction Model by investigating the category of the ‘romantic’ as a culturally mediated, gendered, racialized, and classed historical construction. Here, I draw on philosophical work on the nature of romantic love and on the historical and political role of marriage, and on scholars of queerness from Black, Indigenous and Asian-American contexts to inform a decolonial and racially nuanced understanding of the {SAM}’s political underpinnings, noting how social control in the form of sexual romantic norms is exerted differently on gendered, sexualized, and racialized bodies. iv Finally, I ask what it means to practice nonsexual kinship, and how asexual/aromantic identity gets deployed in practice, drawing on the literature of polyamory to think through the difference between identity and practice. By tracing different examples of asexual/aromantic kinship practice that is not necessarily grounded in asexual or aromantic identity, I pose a new paradigm for thinking nonsexual kinship, opening asexual/aromantic kinship rather than identity as the grounds for thinking both asexuality and queerness.}, pages = {121}, author = {Elgie, Evelyn}, date = {2020-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{elgie_being_2020-1, title = {{BEING} {AND} {DOING}: {INTERROGATING} {DOMINANT} {NARRATIVES} {OF} {ASEXUAL} {KINSHIP} {IN} {AN} {AMATONORMATIVE} {CULTURE}}, abstract = {Taking a sociological approach grounded in intersectionality and queer theory, this thesis traces and investigates online asexual discourse and identity politics in order to critically investigate the way that asexual culture and Western culture more broadly understands the intersections of friendship, kinship, adulthood, and intimacy. Recognizing the ways that asexual discourse has uncritically taken up problematic nationalist, neoliberal, and racialized understandings of romantic kinship in its identity politics is necessary in order to shift asexual discourse from a respectability and visibility politics with the aim of neoliberal assimilation to a political consciousness that queerly reinterprets the role of sexuality in forming kinship. I begin by tracing the history of online asexual discourse, situating the importance of this specific online culture to asexual worldmaking in a North American context. Here, I situate asexual theory in the context of amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality and find that asexual struggles for public recognition and legitimacy often rely on a problematic respectability politics based on notions of biologized, racialized, and gendered normalcy. Next, I investigate the deep cultural entanglements of the sexual and the romantic, calling into question the ontological underpinnings of the Split Attraction Model by investigating the category of the ‘romantic’ as a culturally mediated, gendered, racialized, and classed historical construction. Here, I draw on philosophical work on the nature of romantic love and on the historical and political role of marriage, and on scholars of queerness from Black, Indigenous and Asian-American contexts to inform a decolonial and racially nuanced understanding of the {SAM}’s political underpinnings, noting how social control in the form of sexual romantic norms is exerted differently on gendered, sexualized, and racialized bodies. iv Finally, I ask what it means to practice nonsexual kinship, and how asexual/aromantic identity gets deployed in practice, drawing on the literature of polyamory to think through the difference between identity and practice. By tracing different examples of asexual/aromantic kinship practice that is not necessarily grounded in asexual or aromantic identity, I pose a new paradigm for thinking nonsexual kinship, opening asexual/aromantic kinship rather than identity as the grounds for thinking both asexuality and queerness.}, pages = {121}, author = {Elgie, Evelyn}, date = {2020-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{walton_beyond_2016, title = {Beyond Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual: A Diversity in Sexual Identity Expression}, volume = {45}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0778-3}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0778-3}, shorttitle = {Beyond Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual}, pages = {1591--1597}, number = {7}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Walton, Michael T. and Lykins, Amy D. and Bhullar, Navjot}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-10-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{anders_beyond_2015, title = {Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory}, volume = {44}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8}, shorttitle = {Beyond Sexual Orientation}, abstract = {Sexual orientation typically describes people’s sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory ({SCT}) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality—gender/sex and partner number. {SCT} also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using {SCT} and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that {SCT} changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research.}, pages = {1177--1213}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Anders, Sari M. van}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2015-07-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{yule_biological_2014, title = {Biological Markers of Asexuality: Handedness, Birth Order, and Finger Length Ratios in Self-identified Asexual Men and Women}, volume = {43}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-013-0175-0}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-013-0175-0}, shorttitle = {Biological Markers of Asexuality}, abstract = {Human asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything and it has been suggested that it may be best conceptualized as a sexual orientation. Non-right-handedness, fraternal birth order, and finger length ratio (2D:4D) are early neurodevelopmental markers associated with sexual orientation. We conducted an Internet study investigating the relationship between self-identification as asexual, handedness, number of older siblings, and self-measured finger-lengths in comparison to individuals of other sexual orientation groups. A total of 325 asexuals (60 men and 265 women; M age, 24.8 years), 690 heterosexuals (190 men and 500 women; M age, 23.5 years), and 268 non-heterosexuals (homosexual and bisexual; 64 men and 204 women; M age, 29.0 years) completed online questionnaires. Asexual men and women were 2.4 and 2.5 times, respectively, more likely to be non-right-handed than their heterosexual counterparts and there were significant differences between sexual orientation groups in number of older brothers and older sisters, and this depended on handedness. Asexual and non-heterosexual men were more likely to be later-born than heterosexual men, and asexual women were more likely to be earlier-born than non-heterosexual women. We found no significant differences between sexual orientation groups on measurements of 2D:4D ratio. This is one of the first studies to test and provide preliminary empirical support for an underlying neurodevelopmental basis to account for the lack of sexual attraction characteristic of asexuality.}, pages = {299--310}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Yule, Morag A. and Brotto, Lori A. and Gorzalka, Boris B.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2014-02-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{bush_brief_2020, title = {Brief Report: Asexuality and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum}, issn = {1573-3432}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04565-6}, doi = {10.1007/s10803-020-04565-6}, shorttitle = {Brief Report}, abstract = {Existing research suggests that people with Autism Spectrum Disorder ({ASD}) are more likely than those without {ASD} to self-identify as asexual, or as being on the asexual spectrum. This study contributes to the literature by exploring aspects of sexuality and well-being in a large, community-based sample of young women (18–30 years old) with {ASD} (N = 247) and comparing the experiences of those with asexual spectrum identities and those with other sexual orientations (e.g., gay, bisexual, heterosexual). In the present sample, asexual participants reported less sexual desire and fewer sexual behaviors than those with other sexual orientations, but greater sexual satisfaction. Being on the asexual spectrum also was associated with lower generalized anxiety symptoms. Clinical and research implications are discussed.}, journaltitle = {Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders}, shortjournal = {J Autism Dev Disord}, author = {Bush, Hillary H. and Williams, Lindsey W. and Mendes, Eva}, urldate = {2020-07-18}, date = {2020-06-13}, langid = {english}, } @article{blinch_but_2018, title = {But who's the man? Representations of sexuality and the feminist potential of orange is the new black}, url = {https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/5387}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-340}, shorttitle = {But who's the man?}, abstract = {The amount of sexual content on television has grown exponentially over the last two decades. Much of this content works to enforce heteronormative ideals and demonstrate a male/active, female/passive dichotomy when performing sexuality. This mixed-methods study explored the representations of sexuality on the first season of the female-centric show Orange is the New Black from a critical feminist perspective. Interactions between three couples on the show were analyzed for the presence of the heterosexual script through a quantitative content analysis. Each of the couples, which included two queer relationships, enacted this script in their performance of sexuality. Five adult women who self-identify as feminist were interviewed to explore their opinions on the representations of sexuality on the show, analyzed through thematic analysis. Important barriers that participants noted the show had broken included having a diverse cast, a prominent transgender character, and presenting sexuality as part of larger narratives. Yet, participants questioned numerous aspects of the show, underlining a consensus that the show was not working to combat the dominant discourse of patriarchy through any meaningful ways.}, author = {Blinch, Abby}, urldate = {2019-02-05}, date = {2018-01-16}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{nixon_cake_2017, title = {'Cake is Better than Sex' - {AVEN} and Asexuality}, isbn = {978-1-315-44622-6}, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315446240/chapters/10.4324/9781315446240-11}, abstract = {This chapter outlines a small scale research focused on the challenges of representing asexual orientation that has been defined in terms of absence, which is of sexual drive, desire and practices. It reflects on the lack of visibility of asexuality, which has been identified as a substantial barrier to its inclusion in other sexuality-based political action groups. The chapter offers an analysis that suggests how asexual communities overcome the issue of invisibility. It suggests that by adopting practices of eating cake and celebrating an annual cake day, asexuality is performed in a way that challenges common stereotypes to which asexuals have been subjected. In addition, the question of asexual people enjoying cakes as a new stereotype has been discussed on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network's ({AVEN}'s) forums. Existing discourses around pleasures derived from food provoke a number of questions that may be asked in relation to the practices of eating cake and celebrating an annual cake day by asexuals.}, pages = {11}, booktitle = {Sex in the Digital Age}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Pacho, Agata}, editor = {Nixon, Paul G. and Düsterhöft, Isabel K.}, date = {2017-08-16}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {NR}0xDwAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Social Science / General, Social Science / Sociology / General}, } @report{noauthor_campus_2014, title = {Campus Climate Project Final Report}, url = {http://campusclimate.ucop.edu/_common/files/pdf-climate/ucsystem-full-report.pdf}, institution = {University of California}, urldate = {2017-09-07}, date = {2014-03}, } @article{mitchell_challenging_2018, title = {Challenging Accepted Scripts of Sexual “Normality”: Asexual Narratives of Non-normative Identity and Experience}, issn = {1936-4822}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9567-6}, doi = {10.1007/s12119-018-9567-6}, shorttitle = {Challenging Accepted Scripts of Sexual “Normality”}, abstract = {Sexual desire is often assumed to be natural and universally experienced by all adult human beings. The lived experiences of asexual individuals, however, are beginning to challenge this assumption. The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of asexual experience and identity. This study employed life story interviews with ten self-identified asexual individuals. Results show that asexuality is far more complicated than just a lack of sexual attraction. Respondents in this study arrived at an asexual identity after a discovery process, one that involved research on various sexualities. Participants report discovering an identity that “fit” through research on digital mediums, with Reddit being particularly influential. Several respondents reported trouble with their gender identity, particularly the set of sexual expectations that were hitched to their respective gender expressions. Many respondents noted that they were often assumed to be homosexual. Several participants described their “coming out” process as very similarly aligned with homosexual disclosure. Most respondents first had sexual encounters before realizing their asexual orientation. All respondents experienced relationships, community, connection and romance on their own terms, in unique and creative ways. This group of participants were by no means isolated. Indeed, all interviewees reported involvement in strong communities and many respondents experienced support from others. That said, several respondents did endure resistance, denial and pathologizing reactions from other people, including family members. The insights from this study challenge the normative ways we imagine sexuality, romance and attraction.}, journaltitle = {Sexuality \& Culture}, shortjournal = {Sexuality \& Culture}, author = {Mitchell, Heather and Hunnicutt, Gwen}, date = {2018-09-26}, langid = {english}, keywords = {asexuality, Gender, Identity, Non-normative, Sexualities}, } @report{gebicki_change_2017, title = {Change the course: national report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities}, shorttitle = {Change the course}, abstract = {At the request of Australiaâs 39 universities, the Australian Human Rights Commission has conducted a national, independent survey of university students to gain greater insight into the nature, prevalence and reporting of sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities. The National university student survey on sexual assault and sexual harassment (the National Survey) also examined the effectiveness of university services and policies that address sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus. The request to conduct this survey follows decades of advocacy on the topic of sexual assault and sexual harassment at universities both within Australia and overseas. The National Survey is the first of its kind and the first attempt to examine in detail the scale and the nature of the problem in Australia. This work builds on the Commissionâs extensive experience leading projects of this nature, including the Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force and conducting national workplace sexual harassment surveys for the past 12 years. The National Survey measured the experiences of over 30,000 students across all 39 universities and collected information about : prevalence of sexual assault and sexual harassment among Australian university students in 2015 and 2016, characteristics of people who experienced sexual assault and sexual harassment, characteristics of perpetrators of sexual assault and sexual harassment, settings where students experienced sexual assault and sexual harassment at university, reporting of sexual assault and sexual harassment, and students recommendations for change. This report outlines the findings of the National Survey, provides an analysis of the qualitative information received through the submissions, and makes recommendations for areas of action and reform. [Executive summary, ed].}, author = {Gebicki, Camilla and Pomering, Romana and Flynn, George and Grogran, Noleen and Hunt, Emma and Bell, Jessica and Raman, Kishor Napier and Meagher, Alexandra}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, note = {{OCLC}: 1000472428}, } @article{colborne_chasing_2018, title = {Chasing Aces: Asexuality, Misinformation and the Challenges of Identity}, volume = {14}, url = {https://ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article/view/6926}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5931/djim.v14i0.6926}, shorttitle = {Chasing Aces}, abstract = {Asexuality is a deeply misunderstood and little-known sexual orientation. This is partly due to misconceptions and marginalization of asexual people, and partly by a lack of information about the orientation. This paper outlines the misconceptions of the ‘causes’ of asexuality, namely Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder ({HSDD}), abuse, and religious abstinence. These causes are shown to be invalid due to the key element of self-identification in determining an orientation.; nevertheless, they persist in society because little is known about the nature of asexuality. The facets of the asexual orientation are then discussed: levels of sexual attraction, sexual desire, and romantic orientation, displaying the complex attempt to define asexuality, made even more difficult by a lack of sources concerning these facets.. Finally, the tension between the {LGBTQ}+ community and asexuals is discussed in terms of the debate about including asexuals in this community, with the groups often speaking at cross-purposes. It becomes clear that being asexual requires a complex navigation of territory, and this problem is exacerbated at every step by a lack of information. It is therefore crucial that this informational gap is addressed at each of these three critical areas in order to build a more complete societal grasp of asexuality, and to create a vibrant, open community for those who identify as asexual.}, journaltitle = {Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management}, author = {Colborne, Adrienne}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/WXQU4JZJ/Colborne - 2018 - Chasing Aces Asexuality, Misinformation and the C.pdf:application/pdf}, } @inproceedings{bauer_combatting_2017, title = {Combatting the Underrepresentation of Intersectional Experiences in the Asexual Community}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/40949833/Combatting_the_Underrepresentation_of_Intersectional_Experiences_in_the_Asexual_Community}, abstract = {Presented at the {NWSA} Conference in 2017 Panel: Intersectionalizing Asexuality Studies and Asexualizing Intersectionality Paper Title: Combatting the Underrepresentation of Intersectional Experiences in the Asexual Community}, eventtitle = {{NWSA} Conference 2017}, booktitle = {Intersectionalizing Asexuality Studies and Asexualizing Intersectionality}, author = {Bauer, C.}, urldate = {2020-08-07}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, } @article{scherrer_coming_2008, title = {Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire}, volume = {11}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460708094269}, doi = {10.1177/1363460708094269}, shorttitle = {Coming to an Asexual Identity}, abstract = {Sexuality is generally considered an important aspect of selfhood. Therefore, individuals who do not experience sexual attraction, and who embrace an asexual identity, are in a unique position to inform the social construction of sexuality. This study explores the experiences of asexual individuals utilizing open ended internet survey data from 102 self-identified asexual people. In this article I describe several distinct aspects of asexual identities: the meanings of sexual, and therefore, asexual behaviors, essentialist characterizations of asexuality, and lastly, interest in romance as a distinct dimension of sexuality. These findings have implications not only for asexual identities, but also for the connections of asexuality with other marginalized sexualities.}, pages = {621--641}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Scherrer, Kristin S.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2008-10-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/9WMEGYMK/Scherrer - 2008 - Coming to an Asexual Identity Negotiating Identit.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{scherrer_coming_2008-1, title = {Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire}, volume = {11}, issn = {1363-4607, 1461-7382}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460708094269}, doi = {10.1177/1363460708094269}, shorttitle = {Coming to an Asexual Identity}, abstract = {Sexuality is generally considered an important aspect of selfhood. Therefore, individuals who do not experience sexual attraction, and who embrace an asexual identity, are in a unique position to inform the social construction of sexuality. This study explores the experiences of asexual individuals utilizing open ended internet survey data from 102 self-identified asexual people. In this article I describe several distinct aspects of asexual identities: the meanings of sexual, and therefore, asexual behaviors, essentialist characterizations of asexuality, and lastly, interest in romance as a distinct dimension of sexuality. These findings have implications not only for asexual identities, but also for the connections of asexuality with other marginalized sexualities.}, pages = {621--641}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Scherrer, Kristin S.}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2008-10}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/6ZE4USTE/Scherrer - 2008 - Coming to an Asexual Identity Negotiating Identit.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{scherrer_coming_2008-2, title = {Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire}, volume = {11}, issn = {1363-4607, 1461-7382}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460708094269}, doi = {10.1177/1363460708094269}, shorttitle = {Coming to an Asexual Identity}, abstract = {Sexuality is generally considered an important aspect of selfhood. Therefore, individuals who do not experience sexual attraction, and who embrace an asexual identity, are in a unique position to inform the social construction of sexuality. This study explores the experiences of asexual individuals utilizing open ended internet survey data from 102 self-identified asexual people. In this article I describe several distinct aspects of asexual identities: the meanings of sexual, and therefore, asexual behaviors, essentialist characterizations of asexuality, and lastly, interest in romance as a distinct dimension of sexuality. These findings have implications not only for asexual identities, but also for the connections of asexuality with other marginalized sexualities.}, pages = {621--641}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Scherrer, Kristin S.}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2008-10}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/4E4RKR6N/Scherrer - 2008 - Coming to an Asexual Identity Negotiating Identit.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{shively_components_1977, title = {Components of Sexual Identity}, volume = {3}, issn = {0091-8369}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J082v03n01_04}, doi = {10.1300/J082v03n01_04}, abstract = {This paper examines the four components of sexual identity: biological sex, gender identity, social sex-role, and sexual orientation. Theories about he development of each component and how they combine and conflict to form the {individualÆs} sexual identity are discussed. As defined here, social sex-role includes the {individualÆs} femininity and masculinity. Sexual orientation includes the {individualÆs} physical and offectional sexual preferences for relationships with members of the same and/or opposite biological sex. This paper may help to clarify meanings of the following terms used in research on sexual identity: sex, gender, femininity, masculinity, heterosexuality, and homosexuality.}, pages = {41--48}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Journal of Homosexuality}, author = {Shively, Michael G. and De Cecco, John P.}, urldate = {2017-01-27}, date = {1977-12-02}, pmid = {591712}, } @thesis{bougie_composing_2021, title = {Composing aromanticism}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10355/85832}, abstract = {The term "aromantic" describes those who experience little to no romantic attraction to other people, marking a queer identity hardly referenced in either scholarship or popular conversation. Aromanticism's obscurity doesn't only render it difficult for aromantic people to communicate to those who don't identify or aren't familiar with the term -- it also often leaves aromantics themselves uncertain as to how they might put their perspectives and experiences to words (much less music, visual art, and so on). In this thesis, I suggest that both the aromantic community and composition studies might benefit from some manner of allyship or collaboration with each other. While scholars of queer composition have been publishing exciting work for the past several decades on queering form and genre, writing pedagogy, even how success or failure in composing can be imagined as a whole, their scholarship has yet to either acknowledge the aromantic community's presence or incorporate some of its viewpoints. Following such scholars as Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Rhodes, and Stacey Waite, I wonder how queering composition might look different if aromanticism were incorporated into it. To do so, I share from my own aromantic experiences and compositions as well as offer overviews on the contemporary aromantic community and composition studies' queer table. The resulting project is a collage of research and something like prose poetry (not to mention drama and visual art), itself a text that takes a hopeful stab at queering form, queerly content as to whether it might succeed or fail in its genre.}, institution = {University of Missouri--Columbia}, type = {M.A.}, author = {Bougie, C.}, editora = {Itagaki, Lynn}, editoratype = {collaborator}, urldate = {2022-03-08}, date = {2021-05}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.32469/10355/85832}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/I4HGVQK7/Bougie - 2021 - Composing aromanticism.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{bougie_composing_2021-1, title = {Composing aromanticism}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10355/85832}, abstract = {The term "aromantic" describes those who experience little to no romantic attraction to other people, marking a queer identity hardly referenced in either scholarship or popular conversation. Aromanticism's obscurity doesn't only render it difficult for aromantic people to communicate to those who don't identify or aren't familiar with the term -- it also often leaves aromantics themselves uncertain as to how they might put their perspectives and experiences to words (much less music, visual art, and so on). In this thesis, I suggest that both the aromantic community and composition studies might benefit from some manner of allyship or collaboration with each other. While scholars of queer composition have been publishing exciting work for the past several decades on queering form and genre, writing pedagogy, even how success or failure in composing can be imagined as a whole, their scholarship has yet to either acknowledge the aromantic community's presence or incorporate some of its viewpoints. Following such scholars as Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Rhodes, and Stacey Waite, I wonder how queering composition might look different if aromanticism were incorporated into it. To do so, I share from my own aromantic experiences and compositions as well as offer overviews on the contemporary aromantic community and composition studies' queer table. The resulting project is a collage of research and something like prose poetry (not to mention drama and visual art), itself a text that takes a hopeful stab at queering form, queerly content as to whether it might succeed or fail in its genre.}, institution = {University of Missouri--Columbia}, type = {M.A.}, author = {Bougie, C.}, editora = {Itagaki, Lynn}, editoratype = {collaborator}, urldate = {2022-03-08}, date = {2021-05}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.32469/10355/85832}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/TLJJE55C/Bougie - 2021 - Composing aromanticism.pdf:application/pdf}, } @report{emens_compulsory_2014, location = {Rochester, {NY}}, title = {Compulsory Sexuality}, url = {https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2218783}, abstract = {Asexuality is an emerging identity category that challenges the common assumption that everyone is defined by some type of sexual attraction. Asexuals — those who report feeling no sexual attraction to others — constitute one percent of the population, according to one prominent study. In recent years, some individuals have begun to identify as asexual and to connect around their experiences interacting with a sexual society. Asexuality has also become a protected classification under the antidiscrimination law of one state and several localities, but legal scholarship has thus far neglected the subject. This Article introduces asexuality to the legal literature as a category of analysis, an object of empirical study, and a phenomenon of medical science. It then offers a close examination of the growing community of self-identified asexuals. Asexual identity has revealing intersections with the more familiar categories of gender, sexual orientation, and disability, and inspires new models for understanding sexuality. Thinking about asexuality also sheds light on our legal system. Ours is arguably a sexual law, predicated on the assumption that sex is important. This Article uses asexuality to develop a framework for identifying the ways that law privileges sexuality. Across various fields, these interactions include legal requirements of sexual activity, special carve-outs to shield sexuality from law, legal protections from others’ sexuality, and legal protections for sexual identity. Applying this framework, the Article traces several ways that our sexual law burdens, and occasionally benefits, asexuals. This Article concludes by closely examining asexuality’s prospects for broader inclusion into federal, state, and local antidiscrimination laws.}, number = {{ID} 2218783}, institution = {Social Science Research Network}, type = {{SSRN} Scholarly Paper}, author = {Emens, Elizabeth F.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2014-02-11}, } @thesis{stucki_compulsory_2018, location = {Corvallis, Oregon}, title = {Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students}, url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/c247dz364}, shorttitle = {Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education}, abstract = {This thesis explores the experiences of ten asexual and aromantic college students at Oregon State University and the strategies they used to navigate their sexualized and romanticized campuses. The questions that guided this research were about belonging, resilience, kinship, and worldview. Did they feel they belonged to anyone or mattered to anyone at the university, were they resilient and what helped them be resilient, where and how did they find community and how did they view the world through their identities? Photovoice research was used as the methodology in this study, using photography to make visible asexual and aromantic students who have been treated as invisible ({MacNeela} \& Murphy, 2015). This research was collaborative with the participants, they were viewed as co-researchers and they made meaning of their lives and identities together (Wang \& Burris, 1997). Study data illuminated a hostile campus environment for asexual and aromantic students, where they felt excluded and othered by society, friends, family, classmates, and professors. Yet despite their invisibility they practiced resilience and found belonging and kinship as strategies to be successful in college. Keywords: asexuality, aromanticism, college students, student affairs, {LGBTQIA}+, compulsory sexuality, amatonormativity.}, pagetotal = {224}, institution = {Oregon State University}, type = {Masters Thesis}, author = {Stucki, Elijah G.}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{chasin_considering_2016, title = {Considering Asexuality as a Sexual Orientation and Implications for Acquired Female Sexual Arousal/Interest Disorder}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0893-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0893-1}, pages = {1--5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-11-15}, langid = {english}, } @article{chasin_considering_2017, title = {Considering Asexuality as a Sexual Orientation and Implications for Acquired Female Sexual Arousal/Interest Disorder}, volume = {46}, issn = {1573-2800}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0893-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0893-1}, pages = {631--635}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2019-02-06}, date = {2017-04-01}, langid = {english}, keywords = {Compulsory Sexuality, Sexual Attraction, Sexual Desire, Sexual Disorder, Sexual Orientation}, } @incollection{ginicola_counseling_2017, title = {Counseling Asexual Clients}, isbn = {978-1-119-37551-7}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119375517.ch18}, abstract = {Asexual persons experience little to no sexual attraction to others, although they may still experience romantic attraction and a desire to bond with others. Asexual people often experience bias and marginalization from allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) within heterosexual and queer communities. Asexuals may also face bias from well‐intentioned therapists who assume their lack of sexual attraction is due to trauma or a disorder. Although little research has been performed on counseling asexual persons, the authors review appropriate diagnostic counseling criteria for arousal and sexual disorders versus an asexual identity, and affirmative and strength‐based techniques appropriate for work with this population.}, pages = {251--258}, booktitle = {Affirmative Counseling With {LGBTQI}+ People}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, author = {Ginicola, Misty M. and Ruggiero, Angela}, urldate = {2018-04-24}, date = {2017-02-22}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1002/9781119375517.ch18}, } @article{przybylo_crisis_2011, title = {Crisis and safety: The asexual in sexusociety}, volume = {14}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460711406461}, doi = {10.1177/1363460711406461}, shorttitle = {Crisis and safety}, abstract = {This article provides a discussion of the implications that asexuality, as an identity category emerging in the West, carries for sexuality. Asexuality provides an exciting forum for revisiting questions of sexual normativity and examining those sex acts which are cemented to appear ‘natural’ through repetition, in the discursive system of sexusociety. Drawing especially on feminist and postmodern theories, I situate asexuality as both a product of and reaction against our sexusocial, disoriented postmodern here and now. This article also addresses the question of whether or not, and on what terms, asexuality may be considered a resistance against sexusociety.}, pages = {444--461}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2011-08-01}, langid = {english}, } @inproceedings{chasin_defining_2013, location = {Cincinnati, Ohio}, title = {Defining Asexuality Into (Or Out Of) Its Radical Potential}, url = {http://cj.chasin.ca/Chasin_Reconsidering%20Asexuality_NWSA-Nov.2013.pdf}, abstract = {Academic work has largely defined asexuality as lifelong lack of sexual attraction. Considering the psychiatric diagnosis of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder ({HSDD}), this definition is politically safe. It clearly distinguishes between a) “real” asexuals whose embodies experiences should be respected and left intact), and b) “real” {HSDD} sufferers who should be “fixed” through clinical intervention. However, this distinction conceals other normatively unacknowledged embodied asexualities, and avoids questioning why people (especially women) are distressed about not wanting sex, in a context of compulsory sexuality. Social change challenges {HSDD}'s claim on the bodies and minds of asexuals and women.}, eventtitle = {National Women's Studies Association Annual Convention}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2016-12-26}, date = {2013-11}, } @article{lopez_ruiz_descontento_2016, title = {Descontento y masculinización social: con la A de asexualidad}, issn = {0211-4364}, url = {http://www.injuve.es/sites/default/files/2016/45/publicaciones/revista111_cap2.pdf}, abstract = {El presente texto analiza el surgimiento del movimiento de defensa de la asexualidad como “cuarta orientación sexual”, a añadir a la homo, la hetero y la bi-sexualidad, desde el marco teórico de la acción social como acción simbólica, cultural, un enfoque que permite explorar las relaciones de esta nueva identidad con otros procesos de desafiliación, no sólo de las identidades sexuales tradicionales, sino también de otros valores e instituciones, que afectan desde los ámbitos más privados (familia y redes primarias) hasta los más públicos o explícitamente políticos.}, pages = {27--41}, number = {111}, journaltitle = {Revista de Estudios de Juventud}, author = {López Ruiz, María Teresa}, urldate = {2017-01-25}, date = {2016}, } @inproceedings{marti_desde_2013, location = {Rosario (Argentina)}, title = {Desde afuera del dispositivo: la asexualidad o el reverso ilegible de la identidad}, url = {http://www.puds.unr.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Mart%C3%AD-M.E.-Desde-afuera-del-dispositivo.-La-asexualidad-o-el-reverso-ilegible-de-la-identidad1.pdf}, abstract = {El presente texto aborda la disidencia asexual con el objetivo de analizar su potencialidad disruptiva respecto las configuraciones inteligibles de la identidad sexual y como afuera absoluto del dispositivo de sexualidad. Mientras, por un lado, existe la creciente necesidad de pensarla como posición identitaria válida a modo de estrategia de reconocimiento social, por otro lado, también persiste la insistencia de ciertos sectores, como la sexología y la psiquiatría, de singularizar sus contornos y definirla desde el estudio entomológico clasificatorio que permita determinar las causas que comprueben su origen patológico y su anomalía. Es posible también reivindicar esa anomalía y reconocer la potencialidad subversiva respecto de las configuraciones ontológicas permitidas y ver la potencia de su negatividad como un afuera constitutivo que habilita todas y ninguna de las configuraciones posibles.}, eventtitle = {{II} Coloquio Internacional “Saberes Contemporáneos desde la Diversidad Sexual: teoría, crítica, praxis”}, pages = {189--198}, publisher = {Programa Universitario de Diversidad Sexual, Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios, Universidad Nacional de Rosario}, author = {Martí, María Eugenia}, date = {2013}, } @incollection{zimmermann_desire_2018, location = {Lanham, Maryland}, title = {Desire, Queer Politics, and the Materiality of Experience: Early Asexual Discourses in Online Communities}, isbn = {978-1-4985-5816-7}, shorttitle = {Desire, Queer Politics, and the Materiality of Experience}, abstract = {[...] Although it has been criticized in more "materialist" approaches from feminist phenomenological and feminist biological perspectives (Fausto-Sterling 2000), the dilemma of access to, and intelligibility of experiences, has not been solved satisfactorily. This chapter does not intend to offer a final solution to this dilemma, but to present and discuss a case study example, in which the (in)accessibility to material experiences is both enabled through discursivation and challenging the discourse. Early asexual discourses provide a fruitful perspective on this intersection. Here, subjects seek to "make sense" of a specific constitution—the absence of attraction is experienced as an active, unruly force for which not only no words but, moreover, no conception at all exist.}, pages = {145--162}, booktitle = {Material Discourse — Materialist Analysis: Approaches in Discourse Studies}, publisher = {Lexington Books}, author = {Zimmermann, Julia Maria}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{dandrea_deslocando_2018, title = {Deslocando sobre o arco-íris com tonalidades cinza e preto: assexualidades em trânsito}, volume = {25}, issn = {1807-8214}, url = {http://www.periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/artemis/article/view/36065}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2018v25n1.36065}, shorttitle = {Deslocando sobre o arco-íris com tonalidades cinza e preto}, abstract = {This paper inquiry about the processes of subjectivity and the emergence of asexuality in order to observe some peculiarities and particularities in the contemporary context. We conducted a study of the history of asexuality from the perspective of Michel Foucault and a rhizomatic perspective making a dialogue between the ideas of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. We have described asexuality as a possibility of sexual orientation, perceived as a non-sexual desire and as a political act. We have gone through the depathologization process of asexuality as an effective possibility. We use a two-step procedure as a methodological process: netnography and semi-structured interviews conducted with individuals, who identify themselves as asexual, going through the analysis of these speeches and stories and associating it with the process of self-identification. We conclude that it is necessary to give visibility to asexuality sustaining the balance of power present in this sexual orientation. // Este texto trata dos processos de subjetivação presentes na emergência da assexualidade visando observar algumas singularidades e particularidades no contexto contemporâneo. Realizamos um estudo da história da assexualidade a partir de um olhar foucaultiano e de um olhar rizomático efetuando, assim, uma interlocução entre as ideias de Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari. Nessa direção abordamos a assexualidade como possiblidade de orientação sexual, entendida como um não desejo sexual. Efetuamos ainda um processo de despatologização da assexualidade, como possibilidade efetiva.Como processo metodológico, utilizamos duas etapas: a netnografia e entrevistas semiestruturadas com indivíduos que se identificam como assexuais, posteriormente foi realizada a análise dessas falas e histórias, coadunando com o processo de autoidentificação. Concluímos que é necessário dar visibilidade à assexualidade, sustentando as relações de força presentes nesse tipo de orientação sexual.}, pages = {219--239}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Revista Ártemis}, author = {D'Andrea, Luigi Silvino and Romagnoli, Roberta Carvalho}, date = {2018}, langid = {portuguese}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/7HIZ3MZB/D'Andrea and Romagnoli - 2018 - Deslocando sobre o arco-íris com tonalidades cinza.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{lin_development_2012, title = {{DEVELOPMENT} {AND} {VALIDATION} {OF} A {PSYCHOLOGICAL} {SENSE} {OF} {LGBT} {COMMUNITY} {SCALE}: Sense of {LGBT} Community Scale}, volume = {40}, issn = {00904392}, url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/jcop.21483}, doi = {10.1002/jcop.21483}, shorttitle = {{DEVELOPMENT} {AND} {VALIDATION} {OF} A {PSYCHOLOGICAL} {SENSE} {OF} {LGBT} {COMMUNITY} {SCALE}}, pages = {573--587}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Journal of Community Psychology}, shortjournal = {J. Community Psychol.}, author = {Lin, Yen-jui and Israel, Tania}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2012-07}, langid = {english}, } @article{hoffarth_development_2016, title = {Development and validation of the Attitudes Towards Asexuals ({ATA}) scale}, volume = {7}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2015.1050446}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2015.1050446}, abstract = {Although asexuality (i.e., lack of sexual attraction) is receiving increasing public and academic attention, anti-asexual bias has been the focus of little empirical study. Here, we develop a measure of anti-asexual bias, the Attitudes Towards Asexuals ({ATA}) scale, consisting of a 16-item factor with strong reliability (α = .94). The {ATA} demonstrated convergent validity in terms of correlations with individual differences (e.g., positive relations with Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation) and anti-asexual behavioural intentions (e.g., discomfort renting to and hiring asexuals, contact avoidance). Further, these relations were statistically unique from singlism (i.e., bias against singles). In addition, we found relations between greater {ATA} and greater sexism, greater traditional gender norm endorsement and lower past intergroup contact with asexuals, suggesting potential avenues for expanding our understanding of anti-asexual bias. Implications for examining anti-asexual bias as a distinct form of sexual prejudice are discussed.}, pages = {88--100}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Hoffarth, Mark R. and Drolet, Caroline E. and Hodson, Gordon and Hafer, Carolyn L.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-04-02}, } @thesis{fredrick_development_2017, location = {Johnson City, {TN}}, title = {Development and Validation of the Bisexual Microaggressions Scale}, url = {http://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4735&context=etd}, abstract = {Sexual minorities face stigmatizing experiences which can lead to disparities in physical and mental health, as well as social and economic resources. Additionally, research suggests that microaggressions, or small actions and comments that speak to a person’s prejudices, act as stigmatizing experiences and contribute to negative outcomes for the stigmatized. However, most studies of sexual minority health do not explore bisexual experiences uniquely, despite evidence that bisexuals have unique experiences of stigma and microaggressions. Those studies that do explore bisexual experiences find worse outcomes for bisexuals than their lesbian or gay counterparts. Thus, the current study developed a quantitative scale for assessing experiences of microaggressions specific to bisexuals. A 35-item scale formulated around previously identified microaggression types was validated using data from a sample of 232 bisexuals. Results indicated that bisexual microaggressions were distinct from homonegative microaggressions and that bisexual microaggressions were related to worse physical, psychological, and environmental quality of life. This scale is an additional tool that researchers may use in understanding how stigma experiences lead to negative outcomes, as well as to identify opportunities for alleviating disparities.}, pagetotal = {127}, institution = {East Tennesee State University}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Fredrick, Emma G.}, date = {2017-08}, } @thesis{roza_diversidade_2017, location = {Cascavel (Brasil)}, title = {Diversidade sexual no espaço escolar: concepções, percepções e práticas de adolescentes em escola pública urbana do Sudoeste do Paraná}, url = {http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/3115}, abstract = {This research analyzes the sexual diversity in the school space, emerging thematic in the present time, given that it is the context that has been designated as the 3rd place of discrimination against homosexuals, overcome only by the family and by friends and neighbors. Held in 2016-2017, the objective was to identify and analyze the perceptions, conceptions and practices of the high school adolescents of an urban public school in southwestern Paraná on sexual diversity and sexual rights as human and fundamental rights. Anchored in the theoretical-methodological framework of historical-dialectical materialism, it analyzed the question from a critical and reflexive perspective, with the purpose of understanding the concept of sexuality and sexual diversity, to identify the representations of adolescents, to apprehend social reality in which the object was immersed and to substantiate its analysis, in a perspective of totality and consideration of its multiple relations. This is a qualitative research of an ethnographic nature, with questionnaires (93 adolescents, aged between 16 and 18 years) and focus groups (25, of the participants of the questionnaire), as data collection tools. Adolescents participated in five meetings in two weekly focus groups, corresponding to fifteen hours of debates. In the groups, the discussion of ideas was encouraged, in a constant exercise of speaking and listening, and it was sought to deepen the treatment of the questions of the questionnaire. The data analysis was developed throughout the interaction process with the research participants and with the environment in which they were inserted. The research results evidenced the lack of knowledge and the confusion of the subjects on issues related to sexual diversity; the existence of prejudice and discrimination in context; the predominance of the treatment of questions of sexuality and sexual diversity by the teachers under an uncritical, normative, moralistic and /or religious approach, with emphasis on the biological, reproduction, health and sexual violence dimensions; the prevalence of approaching sexuality issues indirectly and unintentionally in the disciplines, pointing to a lack of space for the school to act in sex education work, with a view to recognizing and respecting sexual diversity and sexual rights, based on current legislation; evidenced imperatives of teacher education and some possibilities of paths to be followed, with the aim of moving towards the necessary performance of the school; and the potential of the focus group to promote knowledge and critical reflection on sexual diversity in order to pursue dialogue and students and teacher formation. This procedure has shown that the absence of the imposition of a given ideology is valuable for everyone to feel welcomed in the debate and active in the construction of knowledge. In the struggle against the hegemony of heteronormative logic, education is a way for the ethical formation of young people and for the possibility of knowledge being apprehended and lived meaningfully, in a process in which action is followed by reflection, in a dialectical and continuous movement.}, pagetotal = {276}, institution = {Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná}, type = {Dissertação}, author = {Roza, Rosangela da}, date = {2017}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{cranney_does_2016, title = {Does Asexuality Meet the Stability Criterion for a Sexual Orientation?}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0887-z}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0887-z}, pages = {1--2}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Cranney, Stephen}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-11-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{carlat_eating_1997, title = {Eating Disorders in Males: A Report on 135 Patients}, volume = {154}, url = {http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/ajp.154.8.1127}, abstract = {Objective: The goal of this study was to better understand the etiology, clinical characteristics, and prognosis of eating disorders in males. Method: All males with eating disorders who had been treated at Massachusetts General Hospital from Jan. 1, 1980, to Dec. 31, 1994, were identified. Hospital charts and psychiatric departmental records were reviewed to verify that the eating disorders met {DSM}-{IV} criteria and to abstract demographic and clinical data. Results: One hundred thirty-five males with eating disorders were identified, of whom 62 (46\%) were bulimic, 30 (22\%) were anorexic, and 43 (32\%) met criteria for an eating disorder not otherwise specified. There were marked differences in sexual orientation by diagnostic group; 42\% of the male bulimic patients were identified as either homosexual or bisexual, and 58\% of the anorexic patients were identified as asexual. Comorbid psychiatric disorders were common, particularly major depressive disorder (54\% of all patients), substance abuse (37\%), and personality disorder (26\%). Many patients had a family history of affective disorder (29\%) or alcoholism (37\%). Conclusions: While most characteristics of males and females with eating disorders are similar, homosexuality/bisexuality appears to be a specific risk factor for males, especially for those who develop bulimia nervosa. Future research on the link between sexual orientation and eating disorders would help guide prevention and treatment strategies. (Am J Psychiatry 1997; 154:1127–1132)}, number = {8}, journaltitle = {American Journal of Psychiatry}, author = {Carlat, Daniel J and Camargo, Carlos A and Herzog, David B}, date = {1997-08}, } @report{merino_lozano_reflejo_2015, title = {El Reflejo de lo Invisible: Representaciones culturales de la asexualidad}, url = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6BDU7eEBYJpbHQ4UHZEYkoxTnM/view}, shorttitle = {El Reflejo de lo Invisible}, abstract = {[...]Para evitar que vuelvan a producirse estos conflictos de identidad, creemos conveniente ofrecer una representación cultural adecuada de todas las identidades, sexuales o no. Por ello, hemos decidido trabajar en una minoría sexual que hasta ahora carecía de una identidad o representación sólidamente construida, esto es, la asexualidad. Puesto que se trata de un colectivo todavía en proceso de formación, nos resultará mucho más fácil operar con este concepto aún no solidificado ni convencionalizado. Con este fin, hemos dividido este trabajo en cuatro apartados que, progresivamente, pretenderán dar cuenta de la identidad asexual y aportarán ciertas reflexiones sobre cómo construir una representación cultural adecuada, que sirva de identidad a todos/as aquellos/as que deseen autoidentificarse como asexuales.}, pages = {37}, institution = {[Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]}, author = {Merino Lozano, David}, date = {2015}, } @article{ingudomnukul_elevated_2007, title = {Elevated rates of testosterone-related disorders in women with autism spectrum conditions}, volume = {51}, issn = {0018-506X}, doi = {10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.02.001}, abstract = {The androgen theory of autism proposes that autism spectrum conditions ({ASC}) are in part due to elevated fetal testosterone ({FT}) levels, which are positively correlated with a number of autistic traits and inversely correlated with social development and empathy. A medical questionnaire was completed by n=54 women with {ASC}, n=74 mothers of children with {ASC}, and n=183 mothers of typically developing children to test whether women with {ASC} have an increased rate of testosterone-related medical conditions, and to see whether mothers of children with {ASC} show similar abnormalities, as part of the 'broader autism phenotype'. Compared to controls, significantly more women with {ASC} reported (a) hirsutism, (b) bisexuality or asexuality, (c) irregular menstrual cycle, (d) dysmenorrhea, (e) polycystic ovary syndrome, (f) severe acne, (g) epilepsy, (h) tomboyism, and (i) family history of ovarian, uterine, and prostate cancers, tumors, or growths. Compared to controls, significantly more mothers of {ASC} children reported (a) severe acne, (b) breast and uterine cancers, tumors, or growths, and (c) family history of ovarian and uterine cancers, tumors, or growths. These results suggest current hormone abnormalities in women with {ASC} and their mothers. Direct investigations of serum testosterone levels and genetic susceptibility to high testosterone production or sensitivity in women with {ASC} would illuminate the origin of these conditions. The relationship between {FT} and current testosterone levels also needs to be clarified. The present results may be relevant to understanding the increased male risk to developing autism.}, pages = {597--604}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Hormones and Behavior}, shortjournal = {Horm Behav}, author = {Ingudomnukul, Erin and Baron-Cohen, Simon and Wheelwright, Sally and Knickmeyer, Rebecca}, date = {2007-05}, pmid = {17462645}, } @article{diamond_emerging_2004, title = {Emerging Perspectives on Distinctions Between Romantic Love and Sexual Desire}, volume = {13}, issn = {0963-7214}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00287.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00287.x}, abstract = {Although sexual desire and romantic love are often experienced in concert, they are fundamentally distinct subjective experiences with distinct neurobiological substrates. The basis for these distinctions is the evolutionary origin of each type of experience. The processes underlying sexual desire evolved in the context of sexual mating, whereas the processes underlying romantic love—or pair bonding—originally evolved in the context of infant-caregiver attachment. Consequently, not only can humans experience these feelings separately, but an individual's sexual predisposition for the same sex, the other sex, or both sexes may not circumscribe his or her capacity to fall in love with partners of either gender. Also, the role of oxytocin in both love and desire may contribute to the widely observed phenomenon that women report experiencing greater interconnections between love and desire than do men. Because most research on the neurobiological substrates of sexual desire and affectional bonding has been conducted with animals, a key priority for future research is systematic investigation of the coordinated biological, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional processes that shape experiences of love and desire in humans.}, pages = {116--119}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Current Directions in Psychological Science}, shortjournal = {Current Directions in Psychological Science}, author = {Diamond, Lisa M.}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2004-06-01}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{bastos_entretantos_2015, location = {São Paulo (Brasil)}, title = {Entretantos}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/11449/149262}, abstract = {Entretantos é um canal na plataforma online {YouTube} que tem como principal objetivo o fornecimento de voz e espaço a grupos excluídos ou mal representados pela mídia tradicional. Através de entrevistas organizadas em forma de minidocumentários, o projeto buscou apresentar as realidades, por quem as vive, de pessoas transgêneras, mulheres gordas, pessoas em situação de rua, assexuais e mulheres negras}, pagetotal = {96}, institution = {Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho}, type = {Trabalho de conclusão de curso}, author = {Bastos, Beatriz Cantos Lopes and Severino, Juliana and Almeida, Letícia Borba de and Sarno, Lívia}, date = {2015}, langid = {portuguese}, note = {Minidocumental "Sexo? Prefiro bolo!" in the {YouTube} channel Entretantos: https://youtu.be/-\_pi7fz8aCw}, } @article{pacho_establishing_2013, title = {Establishing Asexual Identity: The Essential, the Imaginary, and the Collective}, volume = {10}, url = {http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/46138643/Sexuality_in_Focus.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1485852147&Signature=x5bJcV6xn3TvzMR5ykSteJhuYY8%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DArpita_Das_Annelies_Kleinherenbrink_and.pdf#page=13}, abstract = {Sexuality is seen as a crucial aspect of one’s identification and sexual desire is perceived as the core of one’s identity. Therefore, the emergence of an asexual identity constitutes a radical disruption of approaches to identity and epistemology in social science. This study explores a virtual community of asexual individuals who engage in discussions about contradictory processes of identification, the instability of sexual identities, gender relations and possible representations of asexuality. This work locates the process of sustaining an asexual identity and its representation within a broader critique of essentialist positions. Furthermore, it investigates the distinctive features of on-line communities and the implications of the Internet in their establishment. These findings may lead to a better understanding of asexuality as well as an enhanced insight into the social and cultural negotiations over the sexual. Keywords: Asexuality, lack of desire, sexual identities, identity representation, virtual community}, pages = {13--35}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Graduate Journal of Social Science}, author = {Pacho, Agata}, date = {2013-02}, } @article{lund_examining_2016, title = {Examining Concordant and Discordant Sexual and Romantic Attraction in American Adults: Implications for Counselors}, volume = {10}, issn = {1553-8605}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15538605.2016.1233840}, doi = {10.1080/15538605.2016.1233840}, shorttitle = {Examining Concordant and Discordant Sexual and Romantic Attraction in American Adults}, abstract = {The present study examined self-reported sexual and romantic attractions in a sample of 414 American adults. Forty-four (10.6\%) participants reported discordant sexual and romantic orientations. The most commonly reported type of discordant attraction was bisexual sexual attraction but romantic attraction to only one sex, followed by romantic attraction to both sexes but sexual attraction to either one or neither sex. There were no significant gender, age, or relationship status differences between individuals with concordant and discordant orientation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.}, pages = {211--226}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Journal of {LGBT} Issues in Counseling}, author = {Lund, Emily M. and Thomas, Katie B. and Sias, Christina M. and Bradley, April R.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-10-01}, } @article{lund_examining_2016-1, title = {Examining Concordant and Discordant Sexual and Romantic Attraction in American Adults: Implications for Counselors}, volume = {10}, issn = {1553-8605, 1553-8338}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15538605.2016.1233840}, doi = {10.1080/15538605.2016.1233840}, shorttitle = {Examining Concordant and Discordant Sexual and Romantic Attraction in American Adults}, abstract = {The present study examined self-reported sexual and romantic attractions in a sample of 414 American adults. Forty-four (10.6\%) participants reported discordant sexual and romantic orientations. The most commonly reported type of discordant attraction was bisexual sexual attraction but romantic attraction to only one sex, followed by romantic attraction to both sexes but sexual attraction to either one or neither sex. There were no significant gender, age, or relationship status differences between individuals with concordant and discordant orientation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.}, pages = {211--226}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Journal of {LGBT} Issues in Counseling}, shortjournal = {Journal of {LGBT} Issues in Counseling}, author = {Lund, Emily M. and Thomas, Katie B. and Sias, Christina M. and Bradley, April R.}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2016-10}, langid = {english}, } @article{ceglie_exploring_2016, title = {Exploring Asexual Identity}, url = {http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/aes_event/2016/all/254}, journaltitle = {Academic Excellence Showcase Schedule}, author = {Ceglie, Paige}, date = {2016-05-26}, } @article{sumerau_exploring_2018, title = {Exploring the Experiences of Heterosexual and Asexual Transgender People}, volume = {7}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/9/162}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci7090162}, abstract = {This article explores two cases at the intersection of emerging studies of transgender experience: heterosexualities and asexualities. Drawing on data from a mixed-methodological survey, we analyze the ways 57 asexual transgender people and 42 heterosexual transgender people occupying varied gender, race, class, age, and religious identities (1) make sense of gender and (2) experience coming out as transgender. Our analyses reveal some ways cisnormativity impacts transgender people across sexual identities, and the theoretical potential of incorporating transgender people into studies focused on asexualities and heterosexualities. In conclusion, we outline implications for understanding (1) transgender experiences with cisnormativity across sexual and other social locations and (2) possibilities for expanding studies of heterosexualities and asexualities beyond cisgender experiences.}, pages = {162}, number = {9}, journaltitle = {Social Sciences}, shortjournal = {Soc. Sci.}, author = {Sumerau, J. E. and Barbee, Harry and Mathers, Lain A. B. and Eaton, Victoria}, date = {2018}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/6ZFFAETW/Sumerau et al. - 2018 - Exploring the Experiences of Heterosexual and Asex.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{hoglund_finnish_2014, title = {Finnish Women and Men Who Self-Report No Sexual Attraction in the Past 12 Months: Prevalence, Relationship Status, and Sexual Behavior History}, volume = {43}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-013-0240-8}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-013-0240-8}, shorttitle = {Finnish Women and Men Who Self-Report No Sexual Attraction in the Past 12 Months}, abstract = {The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of not reporting sexual attraction in the past year and its associations with factors related to partner relations as well as sexuality-related characteristics in a population-based sample of Finnish twins. The present study was based on a total of 3,540 participants (1,304 men and 2,236 women) aged 33–43 years. A total of 19 men and 73 women reported complete absence of sexual interest in women or men during the past year. Older age was associated with absence of sexual interest in the past year in women, but not men. Individuals who reported absence of sexual interest in the past year were more likely than individuals who reported sexual interest to be single, but those who were in a relationship did not express more dissatisfaction with their relationships. Individuals who reported absence of sexual interest in the past year had had fewer sexual partners and reported less experience of sexual behavior in childhood. Women who reported no sexual interest in the past year, but who were nevertheless sexually active, reported higher frequencies of sexual dysfunctions than matched controls. No significant differences regarding the tendency to fake orgasm were found between the sexually active individuals who reported absence of sexual interest in the past year and the group of matched controls. The present study suggests that absence of sexual interest may be a lifelong phenomenon which does not necessarily affect relationship satisfaction, but is associated with variation in sexual behaviors.}, pages = {879--889}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Höglund, Jannike and Jern, Patrick and Sandnabba, N. Kenneth and Santtila, Pekka}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2014-07-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{macneela_freedom_2015, title = {Freedom, Invisibility, and Community: A Qualitative Study of Self-Identification with Asexuality}, volume = {44}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-014-0458-0}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-014-0458-0}, shorttitle = {Freedom, Invisibility, and Community}, abstract = {A significant body of research is now emerging on the subjective meaning of asexuality. This study explored how self-identification as asexual is managed, both as a threat to the self-concept and a source of personal meaning. A total of 66 self-identified asexuals were recruited from an asexuality internet community and responded to open-ended questions on an online survey. Of these, 31 participants identified as female, 15 as male, 18 gave a different label such as genderqueer or androgynous, and two did not provide information on gender. A thematic analysis of the transcripts resulted in three themes. Socially, asexuality attracted denial and resistance due to incompatibility with heteronormative societal expectations. Despite the threat to self-integrity arising from asexuality being socially rejected, it was typically assimilated as a valued and meaningful orientation on an intra-personal level, aided by information and support from the online community. A second level of threat to self arose whereby other self-identifications, especially gender, had to be reconciled with a non-sexual persona. The accommodation made to other elements of the self was reflected in complex sub-identities. The findings were interpreted using identity process theory to understand how threats arising from self-identifying as asexual are managed. Although asexuality emerges as an orientation to sexuality that can be reconciled with the self, its invisibility or outright rejection in society constitute an on-going challenge.}, pages = {799--812}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {{MacNeela}, Pádraig and Murphy, Aisling}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2015-04-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{macneela_freedom_2015-1, title = {Freedom, Invisibility, and Community: A Qualitative Study of Self-Identification with Asexuality}, volume = {44}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-014-0458-0}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-014-0458-0}, shorttitle = {Freedom, Invisibility, and Community}, abstract = {A significant body of research is now emerging on the subjective meaning of asexuality. This study explored how self-identification as asexual is managed, both as a threat to the self-concept and a source of personal meaning. A total of 66 selfidentified asexuals were recruited from an asexuality internet community and responded to open-ended questions on an online survey. Of these, 31 participants identified as female, 15 as male, 18 gave a different label such as genderqueer or androgynous, and two did not provide information on gender. A thematic analysis of the transcripts resulted in three themes. Socially, asexuality attracted denial and resistance due to incompatibility with heteronormative societal expectations. Despite the threat to self-integrity arising from asexuality being socially rejected, it was typically assimilated as a valued and meaningful orientation on an intra-personal level, aided by information and support from the online community. A second level of threat to self arose whereby other self-identifications, especially gender, had to be reconciled with anon-sexual persona.Theaccommodationmade to other elements of the self was reflected in complex sub-identities. The findings were interpreted using identity process theory to understand how threats arising from self-identifying as asexual are managed. Although asexuality emerges as an orientation to sexuality that can be reconciled with the self, its invisibility or outright rejection in society constitute an on-going challenge.}, pages = {799--812}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {{MacNeela}, Pádraig and Murphy, Aisling}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2015-04}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{holler_friends_2017, location = {New Paltz}, title = {{FRIENDS}, {LOVE}, \& {TINDER}: {AN} {INVESTIGATION} {OF} {THE} {EFFECT} {OF} {AUDITORY} {SOCIAL} {STIMULATION} {ON} {SEXUAL} {AND} {ROMANTIC} {ATTRACTION} {TOWARD} {POTENTIAL} {MATES}}, url = {https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/69337/Holler_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}, abstract = {Humans are social apes that adapted to social networks that were no larger than approximately 150 individuals (Dunbar, 1993). Today, the computer and internet provide humans the means to communicate with virtually anyone across the planet. To explore if using online social venues (e.g., tinder) versus physically attending social venues, such as a popular restaurant, facilitate sexual and romantic attraction toward others, participants were exposed to an auditory stimulus while evaluating 10 images of attractive target mates on 3 dependent measures: interest to have sex with target mates (sex-interest), interest to date target mates (date-interest), and sexual attractiveness of target mates. Of the 3 auditory stimuli—social stimulation (ambient sounds of a restaurant), controlled stimulation (sounds of flowing water), and no stimulation (silence)—sounds of flowing water, compared to silence, produced significantly higher date-interest ratings, t(60) = 2.00, p = .05, d = .51 and, marginally, significantly higher sex-interest ratings, t(57) = 2.00, p = .051, d = .52. Average spent hours per day using a computer significantly predicted date-interest and sex-interest among women and men, respectively. Additionally, the Asexual Identification Scale ({AIS}; Yule, Brotto, \& Gorzalka, 2015) was applied to plot participants along the asexual spectrum. {AIS} scores significantly predicted (1) sexinterest, but only among men, and (2) date-interest, but only among women.}, pagetotal = {74}, institution = {{STATE} {UNIVERSITY} {OF} {NEW} {YORK} {AT} {NEW} {PALTZ}}, type = {Psychology {MA} Thesis}, author = {Holler, Richard H}, urldate = {2017-08-08}, date = {2017-07}, } @thesis{yule_furthering_2011, location = {Vancouver}, title = {Furthering our Understanding of Asexuality: An Investigation Into Biological Markers of Asexuality, and the Development of the Asexuality Identification Scale}, url = {https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/id/131897/ubc_2011_fall_yule_morag.pdf}, pagetotal = {111}, institution = {University of British Columbia}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Yule, Morag}, date = {2011-08}, } @incollection{filipova_gender_2018, location = {[Berlin]}, title = {Gender and Asexuality in Academic Sources}, isbn = {978-3-8474-2183-2}, pages = {108--122}, booktitle = {Gender in Focus: Identities, Codes, Stereotypes and Politics}, publisher = {Barbara Budrich Publishers}, author = {Filipová, Petra}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{bianchi_gender_2018, title = {Gender Discrepancy in Asexual Identity: The Effect of Hegemonic Gender Norms on Asexual Identification}, url = {https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=wwu_honors}, pagetotal = {156}, institution = {Western Washington University}, type = {Undergraduate Honors}, author = {Bianchi, Tori}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @report{noauthor_gender_2021, location = {Washington, {DC}}, title = {Gender identity and sexual orientation differences by generation}, url = {https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-02/topline_gendersexuality_identity_022321_0.pdf}, pages = {5}, institution = {Ipsos}, date = {2021-02-23}, } @thesis{filipova_gender_2017, location = {[Palma, Spain]}, title = {Gender in Contemporary U.S. Culture: Asexuality in Representation and Reception}, url = {http://repositori.uib.es/xmlui/handle/11201/145748}, shorttitle = {Gender in Contemporary U.S. Culture}, abstract = {Since the beginning of the 21st century, asexuality has been a point of interest both for researchers and for the communities of people who have claimed this orientation. Having gained visibility in the past decade, some asexual characters have emerged on {US} television. Due to the relevance of fictional characters in popular culture as possible role models for the creation of people’s gender and sexual identities, it is necessary to examine the available representation of asexuality as a newly described sexual orientation. Asexual men have been chosen for the analysis for two reasons: first, based on the available research, it is predicted that sex has a greater impact on the creation of masculinities than the creation of femininities. Second, female asexual characters are mostly absent from current {US} television fiction. Through the application of theoretical knowledge on asexuality and masculinity, this thesis aims to examine how asexual men can create their identities on the basis of television role models, i.e. to answer the following research questions: Do asexual men face more difficulty in constructing their masculine identities than non-asexual men? Are asexual men forced to excessively employ those aspects of masculine identities that are not connected to sexuality to construct or reaffirm their masculinities, or do they perform heterosexuality in order to do so? Does television fiction of the 21st century offer asexual men role models for the creation of masculine identities? In order to answer these questions, theoretical sources on masculinity and asexuality are applied to the analysis of two television shows, The Big Bang Theory (2007-present) and Dexter (2006-2013). Both series feature a male protagonist who could be classified as asexual based on behavior, thoughts, or speech, and the comparison of characters in both sitcom and drama provides insight into the creation of asexual masculinities as presented in television.}, pagetotal = {242}, institution = {Universitat de les Illes Balears; Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach}, type = {Doctoral thesis}, author = {Filipová, Petra}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, } @article{filipova_gender_2018-1, title = {Gender in Contemporary U.S. Culture. Asexuality in Representation and Reception.}, rights = {info:eu-repo/semantics/{openAccess}}, url = {http://dspace.uib.es/xmlui/handle/11201/145748}, abstract = {[eng] Since the beginning of the 21st century, asexuality has been a point of interest both for researchers and for the communities of people who have claimed this orientation. Having gained visibility in the past decade, some asexual characters have emerged on {US} television. Due to the relevance of fictional characters in popular culture as possible role models for the creation of people’s gender and sexual identities, it is necessary to examine the available representation of asexuality as a newly described sexual orientation. Asexual men have been chosen for the analysis for two reasons: first, based on the available research, it is predicted that sex has a greater impact on the creation of masculinities than the creation of femininities. Second, female asexual characters are mostly absent from current {US} television fiction. Through the application of theoretical knowledge on asexuality and masculinity, this thesis aims to examine how asexual men can create their identities on the basis of television role models, i.e. to answer the following research questions: Do asexual men face more difficulty in constructing their masculine identities than non-asexual men? Are asexual men forced to excessively employ those aspects of masculine identities that are not connected to sexuality to construct or reaffirm their masculinities, or do they perform heterosexuality in order to do so? Does television fiction of the 21st century offer asexual men role models for the creation of masculine identities? In order to answer these questions, theoretical sources on masculinity and asexuality are applied to the analysis of two television shows, The Big Bang Theory (2007-present) and Dexter (2006-2013). Both series feature a male protagonist who could be classified as asexual based on behavior, thoughts, or speech, and the comparison of characters in both sitcom and drama provides insight into the creation of asexual masculinities as presented in television.}, author = {Filipová, Petra}, urldate = {2019-02-05}, date = {2018-05-04}, } @article{zurbriggen_gender_2017, title = {Gender, Sexuality, and Psychology: History, Theory, Debates, and New Directions}, issn = {0360-0025, 1573-2762}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-016-0720-0}, doi = {10.1007/s11199-016-0720-0}, shorttitle = {Gender, Sexuality, and Psychology}, pages = {1--3}, journaltitle = {Sex Roles}, shortjournal = {Sex Roles}, author = {Zurbriggen, Eileen L.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2017-01-11}, langid = {english}, } @article{gupta_gendering_2018, title = {Gendering asexuality and asexualizing gender: A qualitative study exploring the intersections between gender and asexuality}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460718790890}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460718790890}, shorttitle = {Gendering asexuality and asexualizing gender}, abstract = {In this article, I explore the intersections between gender and asexuality, drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with 30 asexually-identified individuals living in the United States. I examine the differential effects that gendered sexual norms have on asexually-identified men and women and begin to explore the relationship between asexuality, gender non-conformity, and trans* identities. Based on these findings, I argue that while white, middle-class asexually-identified men may live in greater conflict with dominant gendered sexual norms than white, middle-class asexually-identified women, the sexual autonomy of these asexually-identified men – specifically their right to refuse sexuality – may be greater than the sexual autonomy of these asexually-identified women.}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{gupta_gendering_2019, title = {Gendering asexuality and asexualizing gender: A qualitative study exploring the intersections between gender and asexuality}, volume = {22}, issn = {1363-4607, 1461-7382}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460718790890}, doi = {10.1177/1363460718790890}, shorttitle = {Gendering asexuality and asexualizing gender}, abstract = {In this article, I explore the intersections between gender and asexuality, drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with 30 asexually-identified individuals living in the United States. I examine the differential effects that gendered sexual norms have on asexually-identified men and women and begin to explore the relationship between asexuality, gender non-conformity, and trans* identities. Based on these findings, I argue that while white, middle-class asexually-identified men may live in greater conflict with dominant gendered sexual norms than white, middle-class asexually-identified women, the sexual autonomy of these asexually-identified men – specifically their right to refuse sexuality – may be greater than the sexual autonomy of these asexually-identified women.}, pages = {1197--1216}, number = {7}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2019-10}, langid = {english}, } @book{linn_sandberg_getting_2011, location = {Linköping}, edition = {1:1}, title = {Getting Intimate: a feminist analysis of old age, masculinity \& sexuality}, url = {http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:408208/FULLTEXT01}, series = {Linköping Studies in Arts and Science}, number = {No. 527}, publisher = {Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies – Gender Studies}, author = {Linn Sandberg}, date = {2011}, keywords = {Aging}, } @incollection{carrigan_how_2012, title = {How do you know you don’t like it if you haven’t tried it? Asexual agency and the sexual assumption.}, pages = {3--20}, booktitle = {Sexual Minority Research in the New Millenium}, author = {Carrigan, Mark}, editor = {Morrison, Todd G. and Morrison and Carrigan, Mark and {McDermott}, Daragh T.}, date = {2012}, } @article{hinderliter_how_2013, title = {How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder?}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774165}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774165}, abstract = {Since around 2000, asexuality – conceptualised as a sexual orientation – has begun to emerge as an identity and a movement. Hypoactive sexual desire disorder ({HSDD}), which emerged in the late 1970s with the rise of sex therapy and is currently listed in the {DSM}, has gained increasing attention – promotion and a backlash of criticism – with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry in sex research. The relationship of these categories has often been noted but largely unexplored, and when explored, authors have tended to focus only on how much they do or do not overlap. This article examines the relationships and differences between asexuality and {HSDD} by examining the histories of each, the conceptual sources that each has primarily drawn on (various clinical/medical traditions vs. {LGBT} discourses and reactions against dominant beliefs about sexuality that asexuals find incongruent with their experiences); it examines how each functions in the primary contexts where they are used (asexual spaces and clinicians' offices, respectively) and in larger social discourses.}, pages = {167--178}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Hinderliter, Andrew}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @incollection{kim_how_2010, title = {How much sex is healthy? The pleasures of asexuality}, isbn = {978-0-8147-9593-4}, abstract = {Physicians, public health practitioners, and "pro-sex" activists may agree that sexual drive is a natural, healthy, and essential aspect of the human. Health risks related to sexual activities are often highlighted by these individuals, but the idea that willingness and capability to have sex reflects and promotes a person's psychological and physiological health is widespread in Western contemporary culture. [...] While expressions of sexuality are regulated in society, the absence of sexual desires, feelings, and activities is seen as abnormal and reflective of poor health because of the explicit connection made between sexual activiness and healthiness. [...] The public emergence of asexual people in the U.S., U.K., and Canadian media and in global online communities illustrates that some individuals understand their absence of sexual desire as an asexual identity or orientation, not as a lack or dysfunction.}, pages = {157--169}, booktitle = {Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality}, publisher = {{NYU} Press}, author = {Kim, Eunjung}, date = {2010-11-23}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {qCYUCgAAQBAJ}}, } @article{flore_hsdd_2013, title = {{HSDD} and asexuality: a question of instruments}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774163}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774163}, shorttitle = {{HSDD} and asexuality}, abstract = {The relation between the American Psychiatric Association's ({APA}) Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals ({DSMs}) and asexuality is likely to constitute a prolific direction in research, especially because of the diagnostic category ‘hypoactive sexual desire disorder’ ({HSDD}). This article investigates the concept of sexual desire as outlined by psychiatry and explores the ways in which asexuality disrupts that knowledge. By extension, I consider the model of sexuality that the {DSM} vehiculates. The manuals themselves provide no measures, no scales, and no defined norms, yet, simultaneously, assume a normative sexuality against which all others can be measured and classified. This article discusses the conceptualisation of ‘sexual dysfunctions’ in the {DSM}, of which {HSDD} is a part, and questions how it operates in clinical research into asexuality. I also pay attention to the clause of ‘personal distress’ in {HSDD}, since it appears to be one of the main differences between {HSDD} and asexuality. {HSDD}, asexuality, and the role played by the {DSM} poses questions such as what discourses, forms of knowledge, and institutions, have shaped, silenced, and eventually erased, asexuality.}, pages = {152--166}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Flore, Jacinthe}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @article{yule_human_2017, title = {Human Asexuality: What Do We Know About a Lack of Sexual Attraction?}, issn = {1548-3584, 1548-3592}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-017-0100-y}, doi = {10.1007/s11930-017-0100-y}, shorttitle = {Human Asexuality}, abstract = {Purpose of {ReviewThis} paper reviews the recent literature on human asexuality, which is generally defined as an absence of sexual attraction.Recent {FindingsRecent} work has focused on exploring whether asexuality is best conceptualized as a mental health difficulty, a sexual dysfunction, a paraphilia, a sexual orientation, or as an identity/community, and this literature is reviewed. The authors conclude that asexuality may best be thought of as a sexual orientation and that asexuality as an identity and a community is an important component of the asexual experience.{SummaryOverall}, the term asexuality likely describes a heterogeneous group of individuals, with a range of experiences. Asexuality is likely a normal variation in the experience of human sexuality, and future research into asexuality might inform our understanding of sexuality in general.}, pages = {1--7}, journaltitle = {Current Sexual Health Reports}, shortjournal = {Curr Sex Health Rep}, author = {Yule, M. A. and Brotto, L. A. and Gorzalka, B. B.}, urldate = {2017-02-04}, date = {2017-02-01}, langid = {english}, } @misc{winer_i_2022, title = {“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and Pansexuality as Identity Pathways in Asexual Identity Formation}, abstract = {Identity formation for asexual people can be complicated by limited societal awareness of asexualities. Consequently, people who eventually identify as asexual often adopt other sexual identities in their early lives. In this paper, we extend sexual identity development theory by analyzing the identity trajectories of asexual people who once identified as bisexual or pansexual. Quantitative data suggests that about half of asexual respondents once identified as bisexual or pansexual and a third closely associate with bisexual or pansexual terminology. Qualitative data supports these findings, revealing that bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality are not always seen as mutually exclusive categories by asexual individuals. We argue that the intelligibility of bi-/pansexuality positions them as identity pathways for many asexual individuals who experience equal (albeit little to no) attractions toward men and women.}, author = {Winer and Carroll and Yang and Linder and Miles}, date = {2022}, } @misc{winer_i_2022-1, title = {“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and Pansexuality as Identity Pathways in Asexual Identity Formation}, abstract = {Identity formation for asexual people can be complicated by limited societal awareness of asexualities. Consequently, people who eventually identify as asexual often adopt other sexual identities in their early lives. In this paper, we extend sexual identity development theory by analyzing the identity trajectories of asexual people who once identified as bisexual or pansexual. Quantitative data suggests that about half of asexual respondents once identified as bisexual or pansexual and a third closely associate with bisexual or pansexual terminology. Qualitative data supports these findings, revealing that bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality are not always seen as mutually exclusive categories by asexual individuals. We argue that the intelligibility of bi-/pansexuality positions them as identity pathways for many asexual individuals who experience equal (albeit little to no) attractions toward men and women.}, author = {Winer and Carroll and Yang and Linder and Miles}, date = {2022}, } @report{carvalho_identifying_2021, title = {Identifying with Asexuality and Belonging to the Ace Spectrum: More than Lacking Sexual Attractio}, url = {https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rxysa}, shorttitle = {Identifying with Asexuality and Belonging to the Ace Spectrum}, abstract = {Asexuality is typically defined as a lack of sexual attraction, not representing the multitude of experiences in the ace community. To understand the complex ace identity, we explored the correlates cognitions, feelings, and desires of ace individuals. Results of a cross-sectional study (N = 447, 61.8\% women; Mage = 24.62, {SD} = 6.98) showed that endorsing asexuality as a lack of sexual desire was associated with less experience with romantic partners, more experience with intimate affective relationships, more sex averse attitudes, and avoidant attachment. Sexual attraction was associated with more experience with romantic partners, less experience with intimate romantic and affective relationships, and more sex favorable attitudes. Romantic attraction was associated with more experience with romantic partners, less experience with intimate romantic relationships, and anxious attachment. Desire to establish intimate romantic relationships was associated with more experience with romantic partners, more sex favorable attitudes, and anxious attachment. Lastly, desire to establish intimate affective relationships was associated with more experience with affective relationships and anxious attachment. This study highlights the need to acknowledge diversity within the ace community by showing the importance of past experiences and individual differences in shaping the way ace individuals construe their identity and their relationships.}, author = {Carvalho, Ana Catarina and Rodrigues, David}, urldate = {2021-11-29}, date = {2021}, doi = {10.31234/osf.io/rxysa}, note = {Type: article}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/QX7BFGWS/Carvalho and Rodrigues - 2021 - Identifying with Asexuality and Belonging to the A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{baugh_impact_2019, title = {Impact of Compulsory Sexuality on {LGB} and Asexual Media Consumers}, volume = {5}, issn = {2639-6750}, url = {https://tuljournals.temple.edu/index.php/perceptions/article/view/147}, doi = {10.15367/pj.v5i1.147}, abstract = {This paper seeks to explore the effects of media portrayals of heterosexuality on the romantic and sexual development of adolescent lesbian, gay, bisexual, ({LGB}) and asexual (ace) consumers. The media, specifically network programming, is a powerful tool of socialization which has been dominated by images of heterosexual love since its inception. As a result {LGB} and ace consumers have been systemically erased from the majority of the United States’ mediated social narratives. Non-straight viewers have therefore been precluded from receiving the social guidance and affirmation allotted to heterosexual consumers whose sexual and romantic behaviors are endorsed by the images portrayed onscreen. The underrepresentation of {LGB} and ace people is reflected in other major socializing institutions including the home, church, and academic institutions where heterosexuality is taken for granted as the only acceptable form of sexual or romantic behavior, and non-straight people are consequently erased. Furthermore, tracing the gradual increase in portrayals of love and sex in the media over time and the ubiquitous nature of sexuality throughout society, this paper will explore the nuances inherent in the effects of compulsory heterosexuality on {LGB} people and the effects of compulsory sexuality on asexual people. Ultimately, by understanding television and story-telling as society’s primary means of self-regulation and expression, this paper will interrogate the implications of predominantly heterosexual narratives on the minds and sexual development of young {LGB} and asexual consumers.}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Perceptions}, shortjournal = {{PJ}}, author = {Baugh, Selena}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2019-02-13}, langid = {english}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/5FBJYLDF/Baugh - 2019 - Impact of Compulsory Sexuality on LGB and Asexual .pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{bulmer_implicit_2017, title = {Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Sex and Romance in Asexuals}, issn = {0022-4499, 1559-8519}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2017.1303438}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2017.1303438}, pages = {1--13}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Bulmer, Maria and Izuma, Keise}, urldate = {2017-04-03}, date = {2017-03-31}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/YWA6VIFF/Bulmer and Izuma - 2017 - Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Sex and Rom.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{bulmer_implicit_2018, title = {Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Sex and Romance in Asexuals}, volume = {55}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1303438}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2017.1303438}, abstract = {Despite the recent surge of interest in sexuality, asexuality has remained relatively underresearched. Distinct from abstinence or chastity, asexuality refers to a lack of sexual attraction toward others. Past research suggests asexuals have negative attitudes toward sex, though no research has examined implicit attitudes. While preliminary evidence suggests that many asexuals are interested in engaging in romantic relationships, these attitudes have yet to be examined thoroughly, implicitly, or compared with a control group. This study investigated explicit and implicit attitudes toward sex and romance in a group of asexuals (N = 18, age M = 21.11) and a group of controls (N = 27, age M = 21.81), using the Asexuality Identification Scale ({AIS}), the Triangular Love Scale ({TLS}), semantic differentials, an Implicit Association Task ({IAT}), and two Single Category {IATs}. It was found that asexuals exhibited more negative explicit and implicit attitudes toward sex, as well as more negative explicit attitudes toward romance, relative to controls. There was no significant difference between groups on implicit romantic attitudes. Moreover, aromantic asexuals demonstrated significantly more negative explicit attitudes toward romance than romantic asexuals, though there was no significant difference between groups on implicit measures. Explanations and implications of these findings are discussed.}, pages = {962--974}, number = {8}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Bulmer, Maria and Izuma, Keise}, date = {2018-10-13}, pmid = {28362218}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/9V7ADM23/Bulmer and Izuma - 2018 - Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Sex and Rom.pdf:application/pdf}, } @report{temkin_improving_2017, title = {Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Middle and High School Students}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317370636_Improving_Measurement_of_Sexual_Orientation_and_Gender_Identity_Among_Middle_and_High_School_Students}, abstract = {To develop more valid and reliable measures of adolescent sexual orientation and gender identity, Child Trends, with support from the Arcus Foundation, convened a panel of researchers and practitioners with extensive experience assessing and/or working with {LGBT} youth. We then conducted cognitive interviews with a diverse set of youth to ensure students would understand and feel comfortable responding to tested survey items. Finally, we performed a field test of items resulting from the cognitive interviews by including them in the U.S. Department of Education’s School Climate survey in Washington, {DC}, administered during the 2016-17 school year with over 3,000 middle and high school students.}, pages = {64}, institution = {Child Trends}, author = {Temkin, Deborah and Belford, Johnathan and {McDaniel}, Tyler and Stratford, Brandon and Paris, Dominique}, date = {2017-06}, } @article{alcaire_visible_2021, title = {(In)Visible (a)sexuality? Media discourses and representations on asexuality in Portugal}, rights = {Direitos de Autor (c) 2021 Antropologia Portuguesa}, issn = {2182-7982}, url = {https://impactum-journals.uc.pt}, doi = {10.14195/2182-7982_38_2}, shorttitle = {(In)Visible (a)sexuality?}, abstract = {This article presents the result of a multimodal analysis of the representation of asexuality in Portuguese mainstream media. In Portugal, the media played a pivotal role in the relationship between the newly formed Portuguese asexual community and the wider audience. Media attention on asexuality in Portugal generated a discussion on how asexual people are represented, but also on social representations of sexual diversity in general. As a result, the Portuguese asexual community and {LGBTQI}+ movement were impelled to reflect on their activity and on the public image they wanted to send out. Therefore, the community had to make choices: which media to participate in; who participates; whose faces the message is associated to; to what extent the allies are to be taken into consideration; which types of discourses get privileged, and which become excluded. Amongst other public effects, the Portuguese {LGBTQI}+ movement started to acknowledge asexuality in documents produced by them. The corpus of materials on the subject grew, and asexuality left a significant footprint. The major tendency points towards a positive portrayal of asexuality that puts asexual people centre stage, owning narratives about themselves.}, pages = {23--42}, number = {38}, journaltitle = {Antropologia Portuguesa}, author = {Alcaire, Rita}, urldate = {2022-11-01}, date = {2021-12-15}, langid = {english}, note = {Number: 38}, keywords = {Portugal}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/ZQ8IHM8K/Alcaire - 2021 - (In)Visible (a)sexuality Media discourses and rep.pdf:application/pdf}, } @online{noauthor_indios_nodate, title = {“Índios gays no Brasil”: a colonização das sexualidades indígenas é tema de livro e de entrevista com Estevão Fernandes e Barbara Arisi {\textbar} Combate Racismo Ambiental}, url = {http://racismoambiental.net.br/2017/05/12/indios-gays-no-brasil-a-colonizacao-das-sexualidades-indigenas-e-tema-de-livro-e-de-entrevista-com-estevao-fernandes-e-barbara-arisi/}, urldate = {2017-05-16}, } @article{duraes_insights_2016, title = {Insights on asexuality – defining the fourth sexual orientation}, volume = {Supplement}, issn = {0924-9338}, url = {https://www.infona.pl//resource/bwmeta1.element.elsevier-f5ef739b-671a-32cc-8257-2b7bccb6e536}, doi = {10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.2194}, abstract = {Although the phenomenon of asexuality is not new – it was first mentioned in the 1950s, in the works of Kinsey et al. – it remained ignored and unstudied by the scientific community until Bogaert ignited new interest in this topic. In 2004, the author published his findings regarding the prevalence of asexuality and reported that 1.05\% of the British population was asexual.Human asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything, either hetero or homosexual, although this definition is not consensual.This work aims to review the conceptualization of human asexuality, and the social, biologic and psychologic factors associated.A review of relevant literature was conducted alongside online database research ({PubMed} and Medscape), using the keywords “human” and “asexuality”.Despite the fact that many approaches have been proposed to define asexuality (lack of sexual behavior, lack of sexual attraction, self-identification as asexual or a combination of the previous) there is growing evidence supporting the conceptualization of asexuality as a unique sexual orientation, thus representing a fourth category.It appears to be more frequent in women and associated to religiosity, lower education level, lower socioeconomic status, and poor health.Despite the increased interest of the scientific community in the study of asexuality, many questions remain unanswered. Additional studies are crucial in order to provide a clear understanding and acceptance of asexuality in this highly sexualized and voyeuristic society we live in, and also to allow for a better understanding of the complexity of human sexuality.}, pages = {S735}, number = {33}, journaltitle = {European Psychiatry}, author = {Durães, D. and Martins, J. and Borralho, R.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016}, } @article{teut_integrating_2019, title = {Integrating Asexuality: A is for Asexual in {LGBTQIA}+}, volume = {2019}, rights = {© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.}, issn = {1536-0733}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cc.20381}, doi = {10.1002/cc.20381}, shorttitle = {Integrating Asexuality}, abstract = {This chapter addresses the large gap in information about asexual identities, examines potential prevalence rates of asexual individuals interacting with community colleges, and equips practitioners with tools for integrating asexuality into their current {LGBTQIA}+ initiatives.}, pages = {95--108}, number = {188}, journaltitle = {New Directions for Community Colleges}, author = {Teut, Jo}, urldate = {2020-06-13}, date = {2019}, langid = {english}, note = {\_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cc.20381}, } @article{macinnis_intergroup_2012, title = {Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals}, volume = {15}, issn = {1368-4302}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430212442419}, doi = {10.1177/1368430212442419}, shorttitle = {Intergroup bias toward “Group X”}, abstract = {Although biases against homosexuals (and bisexuals) are well established, potential biases against a largely unrecognized sexual minority group, asexuals, has remained uninvestigated. In two studies (university student and community samples) we examined the extent to which those not desiring sexual activity are viewed negatively by heterosexuals. We provide the first empirical evidence of intergroup bias against asexuals (the so-called “Group X”), a social target evaluated more negatively, viewed as less human, and less valued as contact partners, relative to heterosexuals and other sexual minorities. Heterosexuals were also willing to discriminate against asexuals (matching discrimination against homosexuals). Potential confounds (e.g., bias against singles or unfamiliar groups) were ruled out as explanations. We suggest that the boundaries of theorizing about sexual minority prejudice be broadened to incorporate this new target group at this critical period, when interest in and recognition of asexuality is scientifically and culturally expanding.}, pages = {725--743}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {Group Processes \& Intergroup Relations}, shortjournal = {Group Processes \& Intergroup Relations}, author = {{MacInnis}, Cara C. and Hodson, Gordon}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2012-11-01}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{lang_intimacy_2018, location = {Lewiston, Maine}, title = {Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color}, url = {https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/252/}, abstract = {Centering asexuality and aromanticism challenges romantic and sexual norms related to intimacy and desire. In my thesis, I use an autoethnographic approach to examine how my understandings of intimacy and desire shifted when I realized I was aromantic and asexual, or aro-ace for short. Drawing from written conversations, journal entries, and memories, I unravel the effects of amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality as normative structures that shaped my perceptions of intimacy and desire. I consider the ways romantic and sexual norms interact with the institutional power of schools, media, and marriage. I also explore the ways asexual and aromantic, feminist, queer, and anarchist communities challenge and resist these norms. I demonstrate the usefulness of asexuality and aromanticism as analytical lenses. I also argue that asexual and aromantic perspectives reveal the extensive, often oppressive, influences of normative structures and institutions on interpersonal relationships.}, pagetotal = {93}, institution = {Bates College}, type = {Honor Theses}, author = {Lang, Christina}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{lang_intimacy_2018-1, title = {Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color}, abstract = {Centering asexuality and aromanticism challenges romantic and sexual norms related to intimacy and desire. In my thesis, I use an autoethnographic approach to examine how my understandings of intimacy and desire shifted when I realized I was aromantic and asexual, or aro-ace for short. Drawing from written conversations, journal entries, and memories, I unravel the effects of amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality as normative structures that shaped my perceptions of intimacy and desire. I consider the ways romantic and sexual norms interact with the institutional power of schools, media, and marriage. I also explore the ways asexual and aromantic, feminist, queer, and anarchist communities challenge and resist these norms. I demonstrate the usefulness of asexuality and aromanticism as analytical lenses. I also argue that asexual and aromantic perspectives reveal the extensive, often oppressive, influences of normative structures and institutions on interpersonal relationships.}, pages = {94}, author = {Lang, Christina}, date = {2018-05}, langid = {english}, } @article{lang_intimacy_2018-2, title = {Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color}, abstract = {Centering asexuality and aromanticism challenges romantic and sexual norms related to intimacy and desire. In my thesis, I use an autoethnographic approach to examine how my understandings of intimacy and desire shifted when I realized I was aromantic and asexual, or aro-ace for short. Drawing from written conversations, journal entries, and memories, I unravel the effects of amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality as normative structures that shaped my perceptions of intimacy and desire. I consider the ways romantic and sexual norms interact with the institutional power of schools, media, and marriage. I also explore the ways asexual and aromantic, feminist, queer, and anarchist communities challenge and resist these norms. I demonstrate the usefulness of asexuality and aromanticism as analytical lenses. I also argue that asexual and aromantic perspectives reveal the extensive, often oppressive, influences of normative structures and institutions on interpersonal relationships.}, pages = {94}, author = {Lang, Christina}, date = {2018-05}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{fischer_introducing_2016, title = {Introducing Asexuality, Unthinking Sex}, isbn = {978-1-317-44918-8}, abstract = {Introducing the New Sexuality Studies is an innovative, reader-friendly anthology of original essays and interviews that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexualities, this anthology is designed to serve as a comprehensive textbook for sexualities and gender-related courses at the undergraduate level. The book’s contributors include both well-established scholars, including Patricia Hill Collins, Jeffrey Weeks, Deborah L. Tolman, and C.J. Pascoe, as well as emerging voices in sexuality studies. This collection will provide students of sociology, gender, and sexuality with a challenging and broad introduction to the social study of sexuality that they will find accessible and engaging.}, pages = {181--191}, booktitle = {Introducing the New Sexuality Studies}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, editor = {Fischer, Nancy L. and Seidman, Steven}, date = {2016-07-01}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {SEmTDAAAQBAJ}}, } @thesis{neiva_ja_2019, title = {“Já experimentou para saber se gosta?” – assexualidades na sociedade sexualizada}, url = {http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9649}, abstract = {Esta tese reflete antropologicamente sobre relações entre identidade, movimento político e a produção discursiva de categorias e convenções em torno das assexualidades – termo mobilizado, em linhas gerais, para nomear a orientação sexual de pessoas que não têm interesse por sexo. O material empírico foi produzido a partir de trabalho de campo realizado no período de 2015 a 2017 e levou em consideração que a internet protagoniza lugar de destaque na produção teórica e atuação política de sujeitos que se reconhecem como assexuais, na contemporaneidade. Assim, ele incluiu a observação participante em um fórum online chamado Comunidade Assexual (A2) e em um grupo de um aplicativo multiplataforma de mensagens instantâneas e chamadas de voz para smartphones, ambos formados por pessoas que se reconhecem como assexuais. Além disso, incluiu observações e diálogos estabelecidos em encontros presenciais e entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas junto a algumas dessas pessoas, bem como a aplicação de questionário online. No trabalho, apresento e discuto os modos como as assexualidades são discursivamente produzidas a partir de saberes biomédicos que universalizam, naturalizam e patologizam certas dinâmicas em torno da sexualidade, ancorados em expectativas heteronormativas, convenções morais e pressupostos biologicistas e fisiologicistas. Assim, contextualizo criticamente as assexualidades nos discursos biomédicos e psiquiátricos embasados em manuais diagnósticos e estatísticos de doenças mentais. Com base no material produzido por meio do trabalho de campo, interpreto possíveis efeitos da luta por visibilidade política das e nas assexualidades e da busca por sua despatologização, que visa torná-las menos carregadas de preconceitos e estigmas. Por fim, analiso dinâmicas relacionadas a gostos e estilos de vida em torno das assexualidades, para corroborar com a noção de que há múltiplos entendimentos sobre o tema entre sujeitos que se reconhecem como assexuais, incluindo as narrativas que aproximam as assexualidades da noção de orientação sexual. Conclui-se nesta tese que as assexualidades se inserem no dispositivo histórico da sexualidade, uma vez que também se (re)produz, a partir delas e sobre elas, certos regimes discursivos pretensamente verdadeiros sobre o sexo. Finalmente, indago se a produção de outros saberes sobre as assexualidades, muitos deles (re)produzidos por pessoas assexuais, têm a potencialidade de colocar em questionamento teorias canônicas das chamadas sociedades ocidentais e se trazem possibilidades para desconstruir preconceitos e estigmas acerca de expressões da sexualidade culturalmente dissidentes.}, institution = {Universidade Federal de Goiás}, type = {Doctoral Thesis}, author = {Neiva, Giórgia de Aquino}, date = {2019-04-16}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{thorpe_judging_2020, title = {Judging an absence: Factors influencing attitudes towards asexuality}, issn = {1188-4517}, url = {https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjhs.2020-0003}, doi = {10.3138/cjhs.2020-0003}, shorttitle = {Judging an absence}, abstract = {We used social identity theory to examine predictors of antiasexual bias in a sample of 1297 adults (48.6\% female, 43.2\% male, 6.4\% nonbinary/other, 0.6\% questioning). Multiple regression analysis found that social dominance orientation, right wing authoritarianism, singlism, low relational closeness with asexual individuals, and sexual orientation were significant predictors of antiasexual bias. In support of social identity theory, and consistent with existing research on antiasexual bias, non-{LGBTQ}+ participants (n = 576) scored higher on measures of antiasexual attitudes compared to nonasexual {LGBTQ}+ (n = 569) and asexuals (n = 143). Shared status as sexual minorities appears to provide common ground between asexuality and other {LGBTQ}+ identities.}, pages = {e20200003}, journaltitle = {The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality}, author = {Thorpe, Cassandra and Arbeau, Kelly}, urldate = {2020-09-30}, date = {2020-06-27}, note = {Publisher: University of Toronto Press}, } @article{bibr_julie_2018, title = {Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality}, volume = {21}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717724156}, doi = {10.1177/1363460717724156}, shorttitle = {Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation}, abstract = {[Book review]}, pages = {840--842}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Bibr, Celisse}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{blasco_martinez_asexualidad_2016, location = {Almería (España)}, title = {La asexualidad como orientación sexual}, url = {https://books.google.cl/books?id=zq2SCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA89}, abstract = {El abordaje de la asexualidad es reciente en el tiempo, y se ha realizado de manera incompleta. El hecho de que una persona declare su falta de interés por el sexo de forma permanente y esta situación no le suponga ningún problema no termina de convencer a la comunidad científica, ya que durante mucho tiempo y aún en la actualidad se da por hecho que la sexualidad es inherente a la condición humana, y desde la propia sociedad se reclama el derecho a la sexualidad de aquellas personas a las que clásicamente se les ha sido negada. Por tanto cuesta asimilar que la situación permanente de falta de interés sexual sea una más de las características del individuo.}, pages = {89--96}, booktitle = {Salud sexual y reproductiva}, publisher = {Universidad de Almería}, author = {Blasco Martínez, María Rosario and Bilbao Zuazua, Gotzon and Molina Hita, Héctor Javier}, editor = {Zapata Boluda, Rosa María and Gutiérrez Izquierdo, María Isabel}, date = {2016}, } @thesis{sanchez_martinez_asexualidad_2019, location = {Rosario (Argentina)}, title = {La asexualidad y su relevancia en los debates psicológicos y sociales contemporáneos}, rights = {Atribución-{NoComercial}-{SinDerivadas} 2.5 Colombia}, url = {https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/20584}, abstract = {The sexual revolution that took place in the twentieth century, opened a space for the discovery and construction of new identities (homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, intersexual, and more recently asexual) that contribute to that search and construction of who we are, and to frame those paths that can help us understand our subjectivity. Asexuality has been emerging and has been potentiated thanks to the digital era, which enabled the creation of the most important international association of people identified as asexual ({AVEN}) contributing to its visibility from where it starts to build the definition of this identity , the different manifestations and typologies that can be raised and the delimitations or differentiations with concepts and postures such as celibacy and abstinence. That is why the objective of this work is to analyze and make an understanding of asexuality through a review of literature, which will take a tour of its history, the conceptions that have been adopted from various fields of knowledge such as biological, social, constructivist, psychoanalysis and how feminist and gender theories have influenced and given the possibility of construction and existence of this identity.}, pagetotal = {48}, institution = {Universidad del Rosario}, type = {{bachelorThesis}}, author = {Sánchez Martínez, Ingrid Carolina}, urldate = {2022-04-09}, date = {2019-11-22}, pmid = {Álvarez, L. (2010). La Identidad "Asexual". Gazeta de Antropología, 26(2). 1-18.}, } @thesis{donate_rodriguez_asexualidad_2018, location = {Madrid (España)}, title = {La asexualidad: un trastorno o una forma de ser}, rights = {info:eu-repo/semantics/{openAccess}}, url = {https://repositorio.comillas.edu/xmlui/handle/11531/22323}, shorttitle = {La asexualidad}, abstract = {In recent decades, new models of understanding sexuality have emerged, including asexuality, which places us between two very different points of view: Is a sexual disorder or a way of being? Asexual people speak of their own sexuality as a natural inclination for which they have low sexual desire and disinterest in sex and sexual relations. They affirm that they live and feel comfortable with this state and reject justifications such as celibacy or fear of sex, among others. Numerous questions also arise such as: is asexuality an identity? Is it a new category within sexual orientations? And in that case, could it be considered in such a way if there is no object to be oriented? Is there a biological explanation? Could we speak of homosexual or heterosexual asexuality? Answering these questions, among many others, added to the lack of appropriate language to refer to this experience, increases confusion and lack of awareness about their existence. As a response to this lack of awareness arise associations such as {AVEN}. {AVEN} is an online platform that provides a space where people can both learn and provide information about asexual experiences in order to visualize and educate about its existence. In Spain, publications of asexuality have appeared in recent years, although their presence is still scarce. My project aims to provide greater visibility and contribute to the progress towards the necessary understanding of this topic.}, pagetotal = {29}, institution = {Universidad Pontificia Comillas}, type = {Bachelor Thesis}, author = {Donate Rodríguez, Elena}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2018}, langid = {spanish}, } @article{dana_comunidad_2020, title = {La comunidad virtual de asexuales del área metropolitana de Buenos Aires}, issn = {1984-6487}, url = {http://www.scielo.br/j/sess/a/WKVyMdNV9XJNrjHwBZRqPkk/abstract/?lang=es}, doi = {10.1590/1984-6487.sess.2020.34.08.a}, abstract = {The present paper identifies and characterizes the asexual community of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In order to do so, it carries on a theoretical revision of the concept of asexuality, highlighting the most relevant contributions for its emerging study. Secondly, as asexual people mostly interact through virtual platforms, the chosen methodology is a virtual ethnography, combined with in-depth interviews. The objective is to highlight the specificity of a mainly virtual community. In the last place, the process of “politization” of the asexual community is developed, this one being oriented to the rest of the civil society and other groups of sexual diversity.}, pages = {126--152}, number = {34}, journaltitle = {Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad}, shortjournal = {Sex., Salud Soc. (Rio J.)}, author = {Dana, Geraldina}, urldate = {2022-04-09}, date = {2020-05-18}, langid = {spanish}, keywords = {asexuales, asexualidad, etnografía virtual, sexualnormatividad}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/NMBTQMN4/Dana - 2020 - La comunidad virtual de asexuales del área metropo.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{alvarez_munarriz_identidad_2010, title = {La identidad 'asexual'}, volume = {26}, rights = {compartido autor y revista}, issn = {0214-7564}, url = {http://www.ugr.es/~pwlac/G26_40Luis_Alvarez_Munarriz.html}, abstract = {An increasing group of people define themselves as "asexual". They say that they do not feel sexual attraction either for men or for women. They do not regard themselves as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. They feel like normal people and claim the social recognition of the sexual rights in all their variants, including their own, which is the asexual identity. To achieve this, they havecreated a web-page: Asexual Visibility and Education Network ({AVEN}). This webpage represents a virtual community which has spread all over the world. An increasing number of participants interchange opinions and support each other in order to keep on living without sex while trying not to provoke trauma or suffering. Against this background, we deal with the following question: Is the concept of "asexual" identity appropriate to work out a theoretical model of sexual orientation of the members in our society?}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Gazeta de Antropología}, author = {Álvarez Munárriz, Luis}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2010-10}, langid = {spanish}, } @article{lopez_ruiz_identidad_2015, title = {La identidad asexual: de la masculinización social a las redes sociales virtuales}, url = {http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/empiria/article/view/15312}, abstract = {Under the frame of a doctoral thesis, regarding the appearing of the asexual identity in the social scene, this work investigates the main cultural factors that could have contributed to its start and development. An identity under construction, that it’s being produced here and now, in the bosom of a virtual community, and that can’t be unconnected with the opportunities that offer the Information and Communications Technologies. The social networks start to seem, this way, not only as a useful resource to get changes in the public politics, and not only as a key to find new forms of communication and knowledge, but as spaces in which can be generated and disseminated changes, even in the more intimate and personal aspects of the human being, as the sexuality, in whose normativeness has always taken root the “must-be” (that is the identity) of men and women.}, pages = {129--168}, number = {32}, journaltitle = {Empiria}, author = {López Ruiz, María Teresa}, date = {2015}, } @incollection{moore_legally_2015, title = {Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens}, isbn = {978-0-8223-5920-3}, url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822375463-004}, abstract = {By documenting unchanging facts such as date of birth, place of birth, parents, and sex, a birth certificate establishes a permanent link between an individual's identity and their body. As a permanent biometric measure, sex classification stands alone: a visual inspection of an individual's person cannot provide the truth of their current name or date of birth or their country of origin. But an "F" on an identity document can be verified, it is assumed, with a quick external examination of the body. This essay examines New York City policymakers' responses to the requests for reclassification between 1965 and 2006. We analyze data generated from participant observation, ethnography, and in-depth interviews. The incongruities in the legal sex designation for trans people help us understand the larger processes that marry territory to people, link state with nation, and connect the administrative imperatives to recognize the individuals inhabiting its territories with national distributive projects organized around the family, private property, gender and race.By documenting unchanging facts such as date of birth, place of birth, parents, and sex, a birth certificate establishes a permanent link between an individual's identity and their body. As a permanent biometric measure, sex classification stands alone: a visual inspection of an individual's person cannot provide the truth of their current name or date of birth or their country of origin. But an "F" on an identity document can be verified, it is assumed, with a quick external examination of the body. This essay examines New York City policymakers' responses to the requests for reclassification between 1965 and 2006. We analyze data generated from participant observation, ethnography, and in-depth interviews. The incongruities in the legal sex designation for trans people help us understand the larger processes that marry territory to people, link state with nation, and connect the administrative imperatives to recognize the individuals inhabiting its territories with national distributive projects organized around the family, private property, gender and race.}, pages = {0}, booktitle = {Feminist Surveillance Studies}, publisher = {Duke University Press}, author = {Moore, Lisa Jean and Currah, Paisley}, editor = {Dubrofsky, Rachel E. and Magnet, Shoshana Amielle}, urldate = {2019-03-04}, date = {2015-05-15}, doi = {10.1215/9780822375463-004}, } @incollection{herman_lgb_2016, title = {{LGB} within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy}, url = {http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4n7727j7}, shorttitle = {{LGB} within the T}, abstract = {This book chapter examines sexual orientation and discrimination experienced by transgender people, using data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. This study explores how respondents to the {NTDS} identified their sexual orientation, how those responses differ based on demographic variables (e.g. age, race, and gender), and how respondents’ experiences of discrimination and outcomes differ based on sexual orientation. The study finds that only 22\% of transgender respondents identified as heterosexual or straight, and that transgender people who identify as sexual minorities (lesbian, gay or bisexual) experience a greater likelihood of encountering some forms of discrimination compared to those who identify as straight. For instance, {LGBTQAO} respondents are more likely than straight respondents to be harassed in a place of public accommodation (55\% vs. 44\%).}, booktitle = {Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities}, author = {Herman, Jody}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2016-03}, } @report{noauthor_lgbt_2021, title = {{LGBT}+ Pride 2021 Global Survey}, url = {https://www.ipsos.com/en/ipsos-lgbt-pride-2021-global-survey}, institution = {Ipsos}, date = {2021-06-09}, } @article{alcaire_lgbtqi_2021, title = {{LGBTQI}+ Healthcare (in)Equalities in Portugal: What Can We Learn from Asexuality?}, volume = {9}, rights = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/5/583}, doi = {10.3390/healthcare9050583}, shorttitle = {{LGBTQI}+ Healthcare (in)Equalities in Portugal}, abstract = {The main purpose of this article is to analyse how healthcare providers in Portugal perceive asexuality. To do so, the author makes use of qualitative data from both the {CILIA} {LGBTQI}+ Lives project and The Asexual Revolution doctoral research on asexuality in Portugal, namely, a focus group conducted with healthcare providers, drawing from their assessment of interview excerpts with people identifying as asexual. The data were explored according to thematic analysis and revealed three major tendencies: (1) old tropes at the doctor’s office; (2) narratives of willingness to learn about the subject; and (3) constructive and encouraging views of asexuality. From this analysis, valuable lessons can be drawn concerning the respect for gender and sexual diversity. The author argues that both formal and informal learning play an important role in building cultural competence among healthcare providers. This could be achieved both by introducing sexual and gender diversity in curricula in {HE} and through media exposure on these subjects. Overall, it will lead to building knowledge and empathy about marginalised groups, and will help fight inequalities of {LGBTQI}+ people in healthcare. As such, {LGTBQI}+ activism that puts the topics of asexuality and {LGBTQI}+ in the media agenda, is a powerful strategy. Hence, because healthcare providers show willingness to learn, the media becomes a source for learning about asexual and {LGTBQI}+ experiences, which they can incorporate in their medical practice.}, pages = {583}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Healthcare}, author = {Alcaire, Rita}, urldate = {2021-08-19}, date = {2021-05}, langid = {english}, note = {Number: 5 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}, keywords = {asexuality, healthcare, {LGBTQ} health, life course inequalities, sexual citizenship}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/FM46CJXI/Alcaire - 2021 - LGBTQI+ Healthcare (in)Equalities in Portugal Wha.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{chasin_making_2015, title = {Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance}, volume = {25}, issn = {1099-1298}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.2203/abstract}, doi = {10.1002/casp.2203}, shorttitle = {Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community}, abstract = {Despite some increased visibility in recent years, the asexual community and asexuality generally remain largely unknown. Aiming to demystify asexuality, this paper discusses the context of anti-asexual animosity in which the (largely American) asexual community is situated. Specifically, the asexual community constructed itself in response to hostility, including explicit anti-asexual discrimination, homophobia against asexual people perceived to be lesbian or gay, and the negative impact of (implicit) pathologising low sexual desire. This theoretical paper outlines some of the unique challenges asexual people face negotiating identities and relationships; the collective sense-making strategies they use (generating language and discourse) to do so; and why these things are central to understanding asexual people's experiences. This is accomplished through a purposeful review of literature and a case study of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as an asexual community space. Understanding the challenges asexual people face and the resources they invoke to overcome them helps applied psychologists develop the cultural competence they need to work effectively with the asexual people they will encounter. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, pages = {167--180}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Journal of Community \& Applied Social Psychology}, shortjournal = {J. Community Appl. Soc. Psychol.}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2015-03-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{chasin_making_2015-1, title = {Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance: Making sense of asexuality}, volume = {25}, issn = {10529284}, url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/casp.2203}, doi = {10.1002/casp.2203}, shorttitle = {Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community}, abstract = {Despite some increased visibility in recent years, the asexual community and asexuality generally remain largely unknown. Aiming to demystify asexuality, this paper discusses the context of antiasexual animosity in which the (largely American) asexual community is situated. Specifically, the asexual community constructed itself in response to hostility, including explicit anti-asexual discrimination, homophobia against asexual people perceived to be lesbian or gay, and the negative impact of (implicit) pathologising low sexual desire. This theoretical paper outlines some of the unique challenges asexual people face negotiating identities and relationships; the collective sense-making strategies they use (generating language and discourse) to do so; and why these things are central to understanding asexual people’s experiences. This is accomplished through a purposeful review of literature and a case study of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as an asexual community space. Understanding the challenges asexual people face and the resources they invoke to overcome them helps applied psychologists develop the cultural competence they need to work effectively with the asexual people they will encounter. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, pages = {167--180}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Journal of Community \& Applied Social Psychology}, shortjournal = {J. Community Appl. Soc. Psychol.}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2015-03}, langid = {english}, } @article{mattfeldt_marginalisierung_2020, title = {Marginalisierung in der Marginalität?: Ein Blick auf digitale Räume anhand sprachlicher Konstruktionen von randständigen Positionen im Kontext von Asexualität}, volume = {73}, issn = {2190-0191, 1433-9889}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zfal/73/1/article-p213.xml}, doi = {10.1515/zfal-2020-2036}, shorttitle = {Marginalisierung in der Marginalität?}, abstract = {{\textless}section class="abstract"{\textgreater}{\textless}h2 class="{abstractTitle} text-title my-1" id="d85e2"{\textgreater}Abstract{\textless}/h2{\textgreater}{\textless}p{\textgreater}This article discusses marginalisation in internet forums and blogging platforms using the example of asexuality blogs and discussion threads. While large corpora of both English and German, such as {COCA} and {DeReKo}, contain hardly any mention of asexuality and these few instances of asexuality and related expressions typically refer to plant biology, online communities do discuss aspects of life as an asexual person and their experiences of marginalization even within the {LGBTQ} community. Definitions of asexuality, including its delineation from other identities, and how asexual people articulate conflicts and other issues on these online platforms are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to how this particular group is constructed by others, how they construct themselves as not being part of the mainstream, and the role (self-)marginalisation plays in this context.{\textless}/p{\textgreater}{\textless}/section{\textgreater}}, pages = {213--238}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik}, author = {Mattfeldt, Anna}, urldate = {2020-09-30}, date = {2020-09-04}, langid = {german}, note = {Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton Section: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/V5D7ZBTI/Mattfeldt - 2020 - Marginalisierung in der Marginalität Ein Blick a.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{mattfeldt_marginalisierung_2020-1, title = {Marginalisierung in der Marginalität?: Ein Blick auf digitale Räume anhand sprachlicher Konstruktionen von randständigen Positionen im Kontext von Asexualität}, volume = {73}, issn = {2190-0191, 1433-9889}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zfal/73/1/article-p213.xml}, doi = {10.1515/zfal-2020-2036}, shorttitle = {Marginalisierung in der Marginalität?}, abstract = {This article discusses marginalisation in internet forums and blogging platforms using the example of asexuality blogs and discussion threads. While large corpora of both English and German, such as {COCA} and {DeReKo}, contain hardly any mention of asexuality and these few instances of asexuality and related expressions typically refer to plant biology, online communities do discuss aspects of life as an asexual person and their experiences of marginalization even within the {LGBTQ} community. Definitions of asexuality, including its delineation from other identities, and how asexual people articulate conflicts and other issues on these online platforms are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to how this particular group is constructed by others, how they construct themselves as not being part of the mainstream, and the role (self-)marginalisation plays in this context.}, pages = {213--238}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik}, author = {Mattfeldt, Anna}, urldate = {2020-10-30}, date = {2020-09-04}, langid = {german}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/K8VLZ5AP/Mattfeldt - 2020 - Marginalisierung in der Marginalität Ein Blick a.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{frost_measuring_2012, title = {Measuring Community Connectedness among Diverse Sexual Minority Populations}, volume = {49}, issn = {0022-4499, 1559-8519}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2011.565427}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2011.565427}, pages = {36--49}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex Research}, shortjournal = {Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Frost, David M. and Meyer, Ilan H.}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2012-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/WD8Z9HCY/Frost and Meyer - 2012 - Measuring Community Connectedness among Diverse Se.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{foster_measuring_2017, title = {Measuring social invisibility and erasure: Development of the Asexual Microaggressions Scale}, url = {https://doi.org/10.7916/D8M61XR3}, abstract = {The purpose of this dissertation was to create a psychometrically sound measure of asexual prejudice through microaggressions that can be used to document and identify the unique experiences of asexual people (i.e., those reporting a lack of sexual attraction towards others). Asexual prejudice encompasses anti-asexual beliefs and attitudes that stem from sexual normativity which promotes sexuality as the norm while positioning asexuality as deviant (Carrigan 2011; Chasin, 2011; Flore, 2014; Gupta, 2013). Applying Sue’s (2010) description of microaggressions, asexual microaggressions are conscious and/or unconscious daily occurrences of insults and invalidation that stem from implicit bias against asexual people and asexuality. Development of the scale included creating items with content that was derived from close readings of the literature on asexuality and related measures of discrimination, prejudice or bias as well as expert review for clarity and verifying applicability of content. A total of 738 participants participated on-line and half were randomly assigned to Phase 1 for the Exploratory Factor Analysis ({EFA}) while the other half was assigned to Phase 2 for the Confirmatory Factor Analysis ({CFA}). Results of the {EFA} indicate a 16 item four-factor structure for the {AMS} that capture expectations of sexuality, denial of legitimacy, harmful visibility, and assumptions of causality as descriptors of the types of microaggressions that occur. The {CFA} revealed support for the {AMS} total score with good internal consistency and strong validity as reflected in strong positive relationships with stigma consciousness, collective self-esteem, and another measure of discrimination and bias. Combined, the {AMS} is a valid and reliable measure of asexual prejudice. Contextualization of these results as well as implications for future research and clinical practice are discussed.}, pagetotal = {138}, institution = {Columbia University}, type = {Doctoral thesis}, author = {Foster, Aasha B.}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, } @article{yule_mental_2013, title = {Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified asexual men and women}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774162}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774162}, abstract = {Human asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything, and preliminary evidence suggests that it may best be defined as a sexual orientation. As asexual individuals may face the same social stigma experienced by gay, lesbian and bisexual persons, it follows that asexual individuals may experience higher rates of psychiatric disturbance that have been observed among these non-heterosexual individuals. This study explored mental health correlates and interpersonal functioning and compared asexual, non-heterosexual and heterosexual individuals on these aspects of mental health. Analyses were limited to Caucasian participants only. There were significant differences among groups on several measures, including depression, anxiety, psychoticism, suicidality and interpersonal problems, and this study provided evidence that asexuality may be associated with higher prevalence of mental health and interpersonal problems. Clinical implications are indicated, in that asexual individuals should be adequately assessed for mental health difficulties and provided with appropriate interventions that are sensitive to their asexual identity.}, pages = {136--151}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Yule, Morag A. and Brotto, Lori A. and Gorzalka, Boris B.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @article{flanagan_mental_2017, title = {Mental Health Disparities by Identity Among Gender and Sexual Minorities}, volume = {4}, url = {http://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/horizons/vol4/iss1/1}, abstract = {One of the major obstacles faced by the queer and trans community is the poorer mental health outcomes this group tends to have. There is a disparity in mental health between people who are part of gender and sexual minority groups, and those who are not, meaning that gender and sexual minorities tend to have poorer mental health outcomes and higher incidences of mental health symptoms than people outside of that community. Due to the connection between mental health, marginalization, and stigma in society, this disparity may weigh more heavily on people whose identities are especially marginalized, such as bisexuals, asexuals, trans people in general, and non-binary trans people even more so. It is difficult to determine how exactly mental health disparities impact people with these identities because of the lack of psychological literature about these groups. Further, gender and sexual identities are complex and fluid, and therefore can be hard to define, and although people with some identities tend to experience more stigma than others, whether this correlation can be attributed to the identity itself or to other factors is undetermined. The lack of representation of gender and sexual minorities in literature demonstrates that these marginalized groups are historically ignored in research as well as in broader society.}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal}, author = {Flanagan, Shelby}, date = {2017-02-21}, langid = {english}, } @article{nurius_mental_1983, title = {Mental health implications of sexual orientation}, volume = {19}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224498309551174}, doi = {10.1080/00224498309551174}, abstract = {The findings of a study designed to examine relationships among four measures of clinical psychopathology (depression, self‐esteem, marital discord, sexual discord), a measure of sexual attitudes, and measures of both sexual activities and sexual preferences are reported. These relationships are examined in relation to a four‐group typology of sexual orientation based on self‐report preference measures. Individuals are categorized as either predominantly heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual in their preferred sexual orientation. The sample (N = 689) consists largely of younger, well‐educated individuals who are predominantly single and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Analysis of variance and both simple and multiple regression analyses were used to control for the effects of background characteristics of respondents. Significant mean differences among sexual orientation groups were obtained, but the prediction or explanation of clinical psychopathology based on these differences proved to be very limited. After controlling for background characteristics of the subjects, sexual orientation differences maintained significance only for depression, uniquely accounting for less than 2\% of its total variance. Implications of the findings for practice by the mental health practitioner are discussed.}, pages = {119--136}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Nurius, Paula S.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {1983-05-01}, } @article{hinderliter_methodological_2009, title = {Methodological Issues for Studying Asexuality}, volume = {38}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-009-9502-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-009-9502-x}, pages = {619--621}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Hinderliter, Andrew C.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2009-10-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{hinderliter_methodological_2009-1, title = {Methodological Issues for Studying Asexuality}, volume = {38}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-009-9502-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-009-9502-x}, pages = {619--621}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Hinderliter, Andrew C.}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2009-10}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{oliveira_minha_2015, location = {São Paulo (Brasil)}, title = {"Minha vida de ameba": os scripts sexo-normativos e a construção social das assexualidades na internet e na escola}, url = {http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-11052015-102351/pt-br.php}, abstract = {The purpose of this doctoral research is to understand self-identification trajectories of asexual individuals, giving emphasis to their school experiences and interactions during basic education. This is an exploratory qualitative sociological research, part of school sexual diversity studies, under the perspective of gender. In this research, asexuality is understood as a form of sexuality characterized by the disinterest in sexual activity, which may or may not be accompanied by the lack of interest in romantic relationships. Sexual/romantic disinterest - constructed socially, historically and culturally as a psychological or physiological disorder - has been reinterpreted as of the beginning of the 20th century, as a distinct and legitimate form of sexuality, situated within the broader spectrum of sexual diversity. The emergence of online asexual communities, with varying degrees of mobilization in different countries - including Brazil - has given visibility to this category and has contributed to discussion and research about asexuality. For this research, I interviewed 40 self-identified asexual people 8 face to face interviews and 32 e-mail interviews - who were contacted through Blog Assexualidades, an online research tool created to facilitate communication with Brazilian asexual individuals and communities. The analysis was based on the constructionist literature on sexuality, particularly John Gagnon and William Simons Sexual Script Theory, as well as Joan Scotts gender theory, among other constructionist theorists. Research results show how sexual normative scripts i.e. assumptions based on the universality of sexual/romantic interest and the naturalization of sexual activity in romantic relationships as part of social construction of sexuality and gender - permeate respondents self-identification experiences, particularly in their internet interactions and their peer relations during the school years. On one hand, online communities and social networks play a significant role in the affirmation of asexuality in contemporaneity, taking into consideration the fact that asexuality was created and has expanded on the internet, gathering people from all over the world around an asexual identity. On the other hand, research findings show that the school environment has been essential for the imposition of gender and sexuality standards that legitimate sexual and heteronormative scripts. However, the school institution has been neglectful about the discussion of the specificities of asexuality and has been doing very little to mediate the tensions that can either guarantee or violate the recognition of sexual diversity in sexuality education initiatives.}, pagetotal = {225}, institution = {Universidade de São Paulo}, type = {Doctoral thesis}, author = {Oliveira, Elisabete R. B.}, date = {2015}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{mcconnell_multiple_2018, title = {Multiple minority stress and {LGBT} community resilience among sexual minority men.}, volume = {5}, issn = {2329-0390, 2329-0382}, url = {http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/sgd0000265}, doi = {10.1037/sgd0000265}, abstract = {Minority stress theory has widespread research support in explaining health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minorities. However, less is known about how minority stress impacts multiply marginalized groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color ({LGBT} {POC}). Also, although research has documented resilience in the face of minority stress at the individual level, research is needed that examines macro-level processes such as community resilience (Meyer, 2015). In the current study, we integrate minority stress theory and intersectionality theory to examine multiple minority stress (i.e., racial/ethnic stigma in {LGBT} spaces and {LGBT} stigma in one’s neighborhood) and community resilience (i.e., connection to {LGBT} community) among sexual minority men of different racial/ethnic groups who use a geosocial networking application for meeting sexual partners. Results showed that Black sexual minority men reported the highest levels of racial/ethnic stigma in {LGBT} spaces and White sexual minority men reported the lowest levels, with Asian and Hispanic/Latino men falling in between. Consistent with minority stress theory, racial/ethnic stigma in {LGBT} spaces and {LGBT} stigma in one’s neighborhood were associated with greater stress for sexual minority men of all racial/ethnic groups. However, connection to {LGBT} community played more central role in mediating the relationship between stigma and stress for White than {POC} sexual minority men. Results suggest that minority stress and community resilience processes may differ for White and {POC} sexual minority men. Potential processes driving these differences and implications for minority stress theory are discussed.}, pages = {1--12}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity}, shortjournal = {Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity}, author = {{McConnell}, Elizabeth A. and Janulis, Patrick and Phillips, Gregory and Truong, Roky and Birkett, Michelle}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2018-03}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/X9GZQ4PZ/McConnell et al. - 2018 - Multiple minority stress and LGBT community resili.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{vares_my_2017, title = {‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’: Romantic identified asexuals negotiate the dating game}, volume = {21}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320848523_%27My_asexuality_is_playing_hell_with_my_dating_life%27_Romantic_identified_asexuals_negotiate_the_dating_game}, doi = {10.1177/1363460717716400}, shorttitle = {‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’}, abstract = {While academic attention to asexuality has increased in recent years, there is still relatively little research into the relational lives of romantic identified asexuals, and less still on the gendered dimensions of these. This article aims to address these research gaps by examining the ways in which 13 self-identified romantic asexuals living in New Zealand experience and navigate dating practices/finding somebody. I employ a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore the ways in which the pervasiveness of hook up culture and gendered discourses of sexuality both constrain and enable possibilities for developing partnered relationships with non-asexuals.}, pages = {520--536}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, author = {Vares, Tina}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/SNB72ZIQ/Vares - 2017 - ‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating li.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{vares_my_2018, title = {‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’: Romantic identified asexuals negotiate the dating game}, volume = {21}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717716400}, doi = {10.1177/1363460717716400}, shorttitle = {‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’}, abstract = {While academic attention to asexuality has increased in recent years, there is still relatively little research into the relational lives of romantic identified asexuals, and less still on the gendered dimensions of these. This article aims to address these research gaps by examining the ways in which 13 self-identified romantic asexuals living in New Zealand experience and navigate dating practices/finding somebody. I employ a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore the ways in which the pervasiveness of hook up culture and gendered discourses of sexuality both constrain and enable possibilities for developing partnered relationships with non-asexuals.}, pages = {520--536}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Vares, Tiina}, date = {2018-06-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/3LSCCXKV/Vares - 2018 - ‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating li.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{vares_my_2018-1, title = {‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’: Romantic identified asexuals negotiate the dating game}, volume = {21}, issn = {1363-4607, 1461-7382}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460717716400}, doi = {10.1177/1363460717716400}, shorttitle = {‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life’}, abstract = {While academic attention to asexuality has increased in recent years, there is still relatively little research into the relational lives of romantic identified asexuals, and less still on the gendered dimensions of these. This article aims to address these research gaps by examining the ways in which 13 self-identified romantic asexuals living in New Zealand experience and navigate dating practices/finding somebody. I employ a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore the ways in which the pervasiveness of hook up culture and gendered discourses of sexuality both constrain and enable possibilities for developing partnered relationships with non-asexuals.}, pages = {520--536}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Vares, Tiina}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2018-06}, langid = {english}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/9MSKRZZS/Vares - 2018 - ‘My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating li.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{mera_adasme_narrativas_2020, location = {Santiago (Chile)}, title = {Narrativas identitarias en personas asexuales}, rights = {Attribution-{NonCommercial}-{NoDerivs} 3.0 Chile}, url = {https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/179747}, abstract = {Dentro de los grupos que se identifican como {LGTBQ}+, la comunidad asexual es uno de los que goza de menos representación. Aunque en Chile la investigación académica sobre el tema es prácticamente inexistente, estudios realizados en el extranjero sugieren que se trata de un colectivo que sufre invisibilización, deslegitimación y patologización no sólo desde la sociedad en general y otros grupos de la diversidad sexual, sino también por parte de profesionales de la salud física y mental. Este trabajo pretende contribuir a abrir la investigación académica a nivel local, entregando una aproximación a las vivencias y construcción de identidad de personas asexuales chilenas a través de la exploración de narrativas identitarias construidas en diálogo con representantes de este colectivo. Para ello, se articularon Producciones Narrativas según la metodología de Balasch y Montenegro en colaboración con personas chilenas adultas que se identifican como asexuales, que luego se pusieron en diálogo con los postulados de la teoría narrativa, los planteamientos de Michel Foucault y Paul Preciado respecto de la sexualidad como dispositivo de control y las propuestas de representantes de la teoría queer sobre de la identidad, la orientación sexual y las posibilidades de resistencia}, pagetotal = {126}, institution = {Universidad de Chile}, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Mera Adasme, Liliana}, urldate = {2022-04-09}, date = {2020}, langid = {spanish}, } @article{dawson_negotiating_2016, title = {Negotiating the boundaries of intimacy: the personal lives of asexual people}, volume = {64}, issn = {1467-954X}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-954X.12362/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/1467-954X.12362}, shorttitle = {Negotiating the boundaries of intimacy}, abstract = {This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achieve the forms of physical and emotional intimacy they seek. We discuss this in relation to three areas: friendships, sex as a practice of intimacy, and exclusion from intimacy. Our findings suggest the importance of not only considering the social context in which asexual people practise intimacy, but also how the practices in which they engage may be shared with non-asexual people.}, pages = {349--365}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {The Sociological Review}, shortjournal = {The Sociological Review}, author = {Dawson, Matt and {McDonnell}, Liz and Scott, Susie}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-05-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/NMESE2C8/Dawson et al. - 2016 - Negotiating the boundaries of intimacy the person.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{cerankowski_new_2010, title = {New Orientations: Asexuality and Its Implications for Theory and Practice}, volume = {36}, issn = {0046-3663}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/27919126}, shorttitle = {New Orientations}, abstract = {Feminist studies, women's studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, gay and lesbian studies, transgender studies... asexuality studies? Although asexuality may not necessarily belong to its own field of study (yet), and may not make an easy fit with any preexisting field of study, the emergence and proliferation of the asexual community pose interesting questions at the intersections of these fields that interrogate and analyze gender and sexuality. As we know, these fields are neither independent of one another nor are they easily conflated; and they are ever shifting, revising, expanding, subdividing, and branching off. Where, then, might we place the study of a "new", or at least newly enunciated, sexuality? How do we begin to analize and contextualize a sexuality that by its very definition undermines perhaps the most fundamental assumption about human sexuality: that all people experience, or should experience, sexual desire?}, pages = {650--664}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Feminist Studies}, author = {Cerankowski, Karli June and Milks, Megan}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2010}, } @incollection{porter_no_2016, title = {(No) Sex and Sherlock: Asexuality, Victorian Abstinenceand the Art of Ambiguity}, isbn = {978-1-4766-2654-3}, abstract = {Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective\&\#39;s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way.    The films Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Mr. Holmes and television series Sherlock and Elementary have introduced wildly divergent, yet fascinating portrayals that reveal as much about current social mores and popular culture as about the detective. More than ever, fans also are taking an active role in creating their own identities for Holmes through fan fiction and art, for example.    \"Who is Sherlock Holmes?\" is still a viable question. The answers provided by illustrators, scriptwriters, directors, costume designers, set designers, actors, scholars, and fans provide insights into both Victorian and the modern-day Sherlock.    Like the many disguises the Great Detective has donned throughout canon and adaptations, his perceived identities may be surprising or shocking, but they continue to make us look ever more closely to discover the real Sherlock Holmes.}, pages = {169--179}, booktitle = {Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations}, publisher = {{McFarland}}, author = {Botts, Amber}, editor = {Porter, Lynnette}, date = {2016-06-16}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {VMF}8DAAAQBAJ}, } @article{scherrer_none_2016, title = {None of the Above: Toward Identity and Community-Based Understandings of (A)sexualities}, volume = {46}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0900-6}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0900-6}, shorttitle = {None of the Above}, abstract = {Comments on an article by L. A. Brotto \& M. A. Yule (see record 2016-40893-001). Brotto and Yule ascribe asexuality to the category of sexual orientation. Yet their title,provocatively, also leaves room for a fourth option: none of the above. From a social constructionist perspective, and one grounded in published narratives from individuals and communities self-identified as asexual, the commentators find this fourth possibility most compelling. In this response, we briefly discuss why each of the three typological possibilities outlined by Brotto and Yule is problematic and why a fourth possibility—asexuality as an identity and community—most effectively describes both asexuality and those who claim membership to this category. The commentators also suggest that advancing identity and community-focused explorations of what have previously been conceptualized as orientations may make sense for a broader constellation of gender and sexual minorities. ({PsycINFO} Database Record (c) 2017 {APA}, all rights reserved)}, pages = {643--646}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Scherrer, Kristin S. and Pfeffer, Carla A.}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2016-11-28}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{socodolski_novas_2016, location = {Curitiba (Brasil)}, title = {Novas mídias: a produção de um canal no Youtube sobre minorias sexuais e de gênero}, url = {http://www.acervodigital.ufpr.br/handle/1884/43429}, abstract = {This project focuses on the communication through new digital medias, more specifically, the video-sharing website Youtube. Created in 2005, this network have grown a lot in the past ten years and today it has thousands of people producing content, besides loyal viewers. The practical part consists in creating a channel on this website, with journalistic aspects, about sexual and gender minorities that are made invisible in our society.}, pagetotal = {55}, institution = {Universidade Federal do Paraná}, type = {Monografia Graduação}, author = {Socodolski, Caroline}, date = {2016}, langid = {portuguese}, } @incollection{hawkins_owen_racialization_2014, title = {On the Racialization of Asexuality}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/27005744/On_the_Racialization_of_Asexuality}, series = {Routledge Research in Gender and Society}, pages = {119--135}, number = {40}, booktitle = {Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives}, publisher = {Routledge/Taylor \& Francis}, author = {Hawkins Owen, Ianna}, date = {2014}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{hernandez_tiempo_paradojas_2014, location = {Ciudad de México (México)}, title = {Paradojas de las identidades sexuales: la asexualidad}, url = {http://es.asexuality.org/images/pdf/Paradojas-de-las-identidades-sexuales.-La-asexualidad.pdf}, abstract = {El presente trabajo es la narración y redacción final de aquello que empezó como pláticas de temas específicos en el equipo de investigación, y que poco a poco fue cobrando forma cada vez más nítida, delimitada y precisa, por lo que en éste se da cuenta de todo el proceso por el que hemos pasado para la misma. Proceso que no queda solamente en este trabajo escrito, pero sí, como una manera para poder compartir al lector, parte de nuestra experiencia en éste. La idea y el propósito principal es que sirva como un trabajo que permita poder pensar y reflexionar sobre el tema específico de la asexualidad. Sí, has leído bien, hemos escrito el significante de asexualidad, y no te apures, la sensación que pudiste haber sentido de extrañeza e incredulidad al leerla, la hemos sentido también nosotros, y nos dedicaremos, por lo tanto, a hablar y reflexionar sobre dicho tema.}, pagetotal = {113}, institution = {Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Hernández Tiempo, Omar Gael and Soto Bistraín, José Fernando and Taboada Taboada, Moisés}, date = {2014}, } @article{zheng_patterns_2018, title = {Patterns of Asexuality in China: Sexual Activity, Sexual and Romantic Attraction, and Sexual Desire}, volume = {47}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1158-y}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-018-1158-y}, shorttitle = {Patterns of Asexuality in China}, abstract = {This study examined patterns of asexuality in Chinese asexual people in terms of sexual activities, sexual/romantic attraction, and sexual desire. The sample included 227 (64 men and 163 women) asexual participants and 57 (26 men and 31 women) uncertain asexual participants recruited from social networks for asexual people. The control group included 217 (115 men and 102 women) heterosexual participants recruited from general social networks. Participants scoring 40 or higher on the Asexuality Identification Scale were classified as asexual. Asexual participants reported having less frequent masturbation, sexual intercourse experience, and sexual and romantic attraction compared to heterosexual participants. Lower sexual attraction among asexuals indicated that “people who experience little or no sexual attraction” would be a more appropriate definition of asexuality. The pattern of uncertain asexual participants’ sexual/romantic attraction and sexual desire was intermediate between heterosexual and asexual participants. Asexual participants scored significantly lower on dyadic sexual desire and slightly lower on solitary sexual desire than heterosexual participants. There were significant differences in sexual activities and solitary sexual desire among romantic orientation categories. Homoromantic participants showed higher dyadic sexual desire and were more likely to engage in masturbation, indicating the heterogeneity among asexual people. The findings indicated that Chinese asexual people showed similar patterns of asexuality as in Western nations. Specifically, asexual people have little or no sexual attraction, non-partner-orientated sexual desire, and are heterogeneous in sexual activities and sexual desire. This implies similar mechanisms underlying the etiology of asexuality across cultures.}, pages = {1265--1276}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Zheng, Lijun and Su, Yanchen}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{poston_patterns_2010, title = {Patterns of Asexuality in the United States}, volume = {23}, url = {http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/18/}, doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.18}, abstract = {In this paper we use data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth ({NSFG}) to ascertain and analyze patterns of asexuality in the United States. We endeavor to extend the earlier work of Bogaert (2004) on this topic, which focused on patterns of asexuality in Great Britain. Using a social constructionist perspective to study asexuality, we conceptualize and measure the phenomenon in several ways, according to behavior, desire, and self-identification. We use the {NSFG} respondent sampling weights to produce several sets of unbiased estimates of the percentages of persons in the U.S. population, aged 15-44, who are asexual; each set is based on one or more of the various definitions of asexuality. Finally, we describe some of the characteristics of the asexual population using multinomial logistic regression.}, pages = {509--530}, number = {18}, journaltitle = {Demographic Research}, shortjournal = {Demographic Research}, author = {Poston, Dudley L., Jr. and Baumle, Amanda}, urldate = {2017-01-22}, date = {2010-09-03}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/VE8644TF/Poston and Baumle - 2010 - Patterns of Asexuality in the United States.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{de_oliveira_patterns_2020, title = {Patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes in asexual persons: a systematic review}, rights = {2020 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited}, issn = {1476-5489}, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-020-0336-3}, doi = {10.1038/s41443-020-0336-3}, shorttitle = {Patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes in asexual persons}, abstract = {Asexuality is commonly regarded as lack of sexual attraction. Research in asexuality grew progressively in the past two decades. However, asexuals’ patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes were not yet systematized. This review searched for articles that could potentially help establishing these patterns. Articles published in English until December 31st 2019 were retrieved from Medline, Embase, Cochrane, {EBSCO}, {PubMed}, Scopus, and {PsycARTICLES}. A systematic search was conducted using an exhaustive list of key terms regarding asexuality and sexual behavior following {PRISMA} guidelines. Of the 195 initially retrieved, only 23 were considered for this review. Of the 23 articles, 16 were quantitative studies, 5 were qualitative studies, and 2 comprised quantitative and qualitative studies. Overall, current findings suggest that asexuals present great heterogeneity of sexual behaviors and psychological processes regarding sexuality, including different aspects and types of interpersonal and romantic relationships, sexual attitudes or fantasies. Conversely, data did not find support for the claim that asexuals present impaired sexual functioning. The little geographic and cultural diversity of the samples is a major limitation in these studies, preventing the properly representation of asexuals. Furthermore, asexuals may benefit from evidence on the biopsychosocial factors shaping sexual, emotional, and relationship well-being, as far as such evidence is built upon asexuals’ lenses, rather than on heteronormativity criteria.}, pages = {1--11}, journaltitle = {International Journal of Impotence Research}, author = {de Oliveira, Leonor and Carvalho, Joana and Sarikaya, Selcuk and Urkmez, Ahmet and Salonia, Andrea and Russo, Giorgio Ivan}, urldate = {2020-09-30}, date = {2020-08-10}, langid = {english}, note = {Publisher: Nature Publishing Group}, } @thesis{sundrud_performing_2011, title = {Performing Asexuality through Narratives of Sexual Identity}, url = {http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/4074}, abstract = {This thesis explores the social construction of asexual identities through everyday narrative performances and critically examines the marginalizing effects of heteronormative discourses. This thesis posits narrative performance as a framework for understanding asexual identities within a heteronormative society. Drawing upon oral history and ethnographic methodologies, this thesis examines the narrative performances of three self-identified asexuals and explores four themes within each narrative: 1) the breach of heteronormative expectations, 2) the creation of commonality among individuals within the asexual community, 3) the negotiation of heteronormative discourses within the family, and 4) the construction of future-oriented liminoid narratives of asexuality. This thesis advances the claim that asexuality is a social identity by which asexuals narrate their past within a heteronormative society and envision a queer future.}, institution = {San José State University}, type = {Master's Theses}, author = {Sundrud, Janet L.}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2011}, } @article{foster_personal_2019, title = {Personal agency disavowed: Identity construction in asexual women of color.}, volume = {6}, issn = {2329-0390, 2329-0382}, url = {http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/sgd0000310}, doi = {10.1037/sgd0000310}, shorttitle = {Personal agency disavowed}, abstract = {This study suggests that the combination racial, gender, and asexual identities makes the process of self-definition a unique and challenging experience for asexual women of color. In the context of negative stereotypes about their gender and/or race and dismissive responses to their asexuality, participants expressed varying degrees of belonging within their communities, difficulty integrating all identities, and the importance of connecting with like-minded individuals.}, pages = {127--137}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity}, shortjournal = {Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity}, author = {Foster, Aasha B. and Eklund, Austin and Brewster, Melanie E. and Walker, Amelia D. and Candon, Emma}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2019-06}, langid = {english}, } @article{bogaert_personality_2017, title = {Personality and Sexual Orientation: Extension to Asexuality and the {HEXACO} Model}, volume = {0}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1287844}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2017.1287844}, shorttitle = {Personality and Sexual Orientation}, abstract = {Previous research has examined self-identified sexual orientation in relation to self-reports on the Big Five personality factors. Here we extend this research by including asexuality as a fourth sexual orientation and by assessing the {HEXACO} personality factors, using self-report data from a large anonymous online sample (N ≈ 100,000). A large overlap was observed among all sexual orientation groups on all six {HEXACO} dimensions, but notable group differences also emerged. All nonheterosexual groups, particularly bisexual people, averaged higher in openness to experience than did heterosexuals. Heterosexual men averaged much lower in emotionality than heterosexual women, but only a small difference was observed between gay men and lesbians on this dimension. Asexual men and women averaged lower in extraversion and in some facets of emotionality (specifically, dependence and sentimentality) than did the other sexual orientation groups of the same sex. Results are discussed in relation to the different social realities that each sexual orientation group often experiences, along with the (gender-related) developmental influences hypothesized to underlie in part the origins of sexual orientation.}, pages = {1--11}, number = {0}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F. and Ashton, Michael C. and Lee, Kibeom}, date = {2017-02-23}, pmid = {28276935}, } @article{bogaert_personality_2018, title = {Personality and Sexual Orientation: Extension to Asexuality and the {HEXACO} Model}, volume = {55}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1287844}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2017.1287844}, shorttitle = {Personality and Sexual Orientation}, abstract = {Previous research has examined self-identified sexual orientation in relation to self-reports on the Big Five personality factors. Here we extend this research by including asexuality as a fourth sexual orientation and by assessing the {HEXACO} personality factors, using self-report data from a large anonymous online sample (N ≈ 100,000). A large overlap was observed among all sexual orientation groups on all six {HEXACO} dimensions, but notable group differences also emerged. All nonheterosexual groups, particularly bisexual people, averaged higher in openness to experience than did heterosexuals. Heterosexual men averaged much lower in emotionality than heterosexual women, but only a small difference was observed between gay men and lesbians on this dimension. Asexual men and women averaged lower in extraversion and in some facets of emotionality (specifically, dependence and sentimentality) than did the other sexual orientation groups of the same sex. Results are discussed in relation to the different social realities that each sexual orientation group often experiences, along with the (gender-related) developmental influences hypothesized to underlie in part the origins of sexual orientation.}, pages = {951--961}, number = {8}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F. and Ashton, Michael C. and Lee, Kibeom}, date = {2018-10-13}, pmid = {28276935}, } @article{brotto_physiological_2011, title = {Physiological and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Self-Identified Asexual Women}, volume = {40}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-010-9671-7}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-010-9671-7}, abstract = {Asexuality can be defined as a lifelong lack of sexual attraction. Empirical research on asexuality reveals significantly lower self-reported sexual desire and arousal and lower rates of sexual activity; however, the speculation that there may also be an impaired psychophysiological sexual arousal response has never been tested. The aim of this study was to compare genital (vaginal pulse amplitude; {VPA}) and subjective sexual arousal in asexual and non-asexual women. Thirty-eight women between the ages of 19 and 55 years (10 heterosexual, 10 bisexual, 11 homosexual, and 7 asexual) viewed neutral and erotic audiovisual stimuli while {VPA} and self-reported sexual arousal and affect were measured. There were no significant group differences in the increased {VPA} and self-reported sexual arousal response to the erotic film between the groups. Asexuals showed significantly less positive affect, sensuality-sexual attraction, and self-reported autonomic arousal to the erotic film compared to the other groups; however, there were no group differences in negative affect or anxiety. Genital-subjective sexual arousal concordance was significantly positive for the asexual women and non-significant for the other three groups, suggesting higher levels of interoceptive awareness among asexuals. Taken together, the findings suggest normal subjective and physiological sexual arousal capacity in asexual women and challenge the view that asexuality should be characterized as a sexual dysfunction.}, pages = {699--712}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Yule, Morag A.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2011-08-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{gupta_picturing_2013, title = {Picturing Space for Lesbian Nonsexualities: Rethinking Sex-Normative Commitments through The Kids Are All Right (2010)}, volume = {17}, issn = {1089-4160}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2012.683381}, doi = {10.1080/10894160.2012.683381}, shorttitle = {Picturing Space for Lesbian Nonsexualities}, abstract = {This article examines representations of lesbian nonsexuality in the film The Kids Are All Right and in responses to the film by feminist and queer scholars. In some moments, the film offers a limited endorsement of lesbian nonsexuality, placing pressure on the category lesbian to include nonsexuality and asexuality. However, in their responses to the film, many feminist and queer scholars rejected nonsexuality as an aspect of lesbian experience, placing pressure on the category lesbian to exclude nonsexual and asexual women. Asexual activism challenges scholars to question their sex-normative commitments and to keep the category lesbian open and flexible.}, pages = {103--118}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Journal of Lesbian Studies}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-01-01}, pmid = {23316844}, } @incollection{kurowicka_polish_2020, location = {Cham}, title = {Polish Asexualities: Catholic Religiosity and Asexual Online Activisms in Poland}, isbn = {978-3-030-20401-3}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20401-3_12}, shorttitle = {Polish Asexualities}, abstract = {This chapter explores Polish asexual activism through an analysis of posts on the largest Polish-language forum devoted to asexuality, the Asexual Education Network ({SEA}). We focus on two themes in particular: Polish asexuals’ alliances and antagonism to {LGBTI}+ identities and Polish asexuals’ articulations of religiosity. We find that asexuals express ambivalence regarding their participation in {LGBTI}+ activism, with some arguing for inclusion in the community and others taking explicitly homophobic and transphobic positions. While most asexuals understand their identity as a secular sexual orientation, some use Catholic-influenced concepts of purity and supremacy to conceptualize it. We conclude that Polish asexual activism online is not uniform in its political alignments; rather, it can be and is mobilized for both progressive and conservative purposes depending on its conceptualization.}, pages = {289--311}, booktitle = {{LGBTQ}+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: Resistance, Representation and Identity}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Kurowicka, Anna and Przybylo, Ela}, editor = {Buyantueva, Radzhana and Shevtsova, Maryna}, urldate = {2020-09-27}, date = {2020}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-20401-3_12}, } @misc{noauthor_preliminary_2019, title = {Preliminary Results from the "Survey on Diversity of Work and Life, and Coexistence among the Residents of Osaka City"}, url = {http://www.ipss.go.jp/projects/j/SOGI/%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C%E9%80%9F%E5%A0%B120190425%E5%85%AC%E8%A1%A8%E7%94%A8ENG.pdf}, date = {2019-04-25}, } @article{przybylo_producing_2013, title = {Producing facts: Empirical asexuality and the scientific study of sex}, volume = {23}, issn = {0959-3535}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353512443668}, doi = {10.1177/0959353512443668}, shorttitle = {Producing facts}, abstract = {Asexuality, quickly becoming a burgeoning sexual identity category and subject of academic inquiry, relies at this budding moment of identity demarcation on a series of scientific studies that seek to ‘discover’ the truth of asexuality in and on the body. This article considers the existing scientific research on asexuality, including both older and more obscure mentions of asexuality as well as contemporary studies, through two twin claims: (1) that asexuality, as a sexual identity, is entirely specific to our current cultural moment – that it is in this sense culturally contingent, and (2) that scientific research on asexuality, while providing asexuality with a sense of credibility, is also shaping the possibilities and impossibilities of what counts as asexuality and how it operates. In the first section, I consider how older scientific research on asexuality, spanning from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, is characterized by a disinterest in asexuality. Next, turning to recent work on asexuality, the beginning of which is marked by Anthony Bogaert’s 2004 study, I demonstrate how asexuality becomes ‘discovered’, mapped, and pursued by science, making it culturally intelligible even while often naturalizing, in the process, what I argue are harmful sexual differences.}, pages = {224--242}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Feminism \& Psychology}, shortjournal = {Feminism \& Psychology}, author = {Przybylo, Ela}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{carvalho_psychological_2016, title = {Psychological Features and Sexual Beliefs Characterizing Self-Labeled Asexual Individuals}, volume = {43}, issn = {0092-623X}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2016.1208696}, doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2016.1208696}, abstract = {The present study was aimed at exploring and describing potential psychological and cognitive features characterizing asexual individuals. A web survey targeting a community of single and highly educated asexual individuals (68 women and 19 men) and matching controls (58 women and 19 men) was carried out in volunteers over 18 years old. Participants responded to a set of questions assessing personality traits, state psychopathological dimensions, and sexual beliefs. Findings on asexual women revealed that they reported higher levels of neuroticism, depression, phobic anxiety, personal sensitivity, as well as lower extraversion and conscientiousness than nonasexual women; also, asexual women reported more sexually conservative beliefs (including regarding sexual desire as a sin), beliefs related to the negative impact of age in sexuality, and the primacy of affection in sexual intercourse. Findings on asexual men showed that they reported more neuroticism, openness, psychoticism, and less extraversion. Findings on sexual beliefs showed that asexual men reported more sexually conservative beliefs, more beliefs related to the propensity for believing that women may use sex as a means to subjugate men, and beliefs related to the idea that erectile performance is central to female satisfaction. Findings further suggested that some of these features may have tapped into asexual individuals’ religious status.}, pages = {517--528}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, author = {Carvalho, Joana and Lemos, Diana and Nobre, Pedro J.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-07-11}, pmid = {27399883}, } @article{oliveira_quando_2018, title = {Quando e como usar entrevistas por e-mail: Reflexões com base em pesquisa sobre assexualidade}, volume = {34}, issn = {0102-4698}, url = {http://ref.scielo.org/shnfws}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-4698192012}, shorttitle = {Quando e como usar entrevistas por e-mail}, abstract = {Taking a research about asexuality as a source, this article brings reflections on the limits and possibilities of using e-mail interviews as a methodological research tool. In order to reach self-identified asexuals who accepted to be interviewed - located in different regions, states and cities of Brazil - the research that led to this article used e-mail as a tool. This article presents the challenges faced by e-mail interviews considering the absence of social clues - like gestures, voice intonation and body language. Additionally, the article also points out its advantages, such as allowing a greater geographic reach of the research subjects; making possible the participation of people who - for different reasons - would not agree to face-to-face interviews; and enabling the contact with a self-identification born and spread on the internet. These aspects highlight the strengthening of information and communication technologies as socialization agents in the process of identity construction in contemporaneity, as well as the contribution of the internet access to the enrichment of the research about asexuality. // Com base em pesquisa sobre assexualidade, este artigo traz reflexões sobre os limites e as possibilidades do uso de entrevistas por e-mail. Com o objetivo de alcançar pessoas autoidentificadas como assexuais - em diferentes lugares do Brasil - a investigação que deu origem ao artigo utilizou o e-mail como ferramenta metodológica. Este artigo apresenta os desafios da realização de entrevistas por e-mail diante da ausência de pistas sociais como gestos, entonação de voz e linguagem corporal. Também expõe as vantagens ao possibilitar maior alcance geográfico dos sujeitos, ao permitir a participação de pessoas que - por diferentes motivos - não concederiam entrevista presencialmente; e ao viabilizar o contato com uma autoidentificação nascida e difundida nos meios virtuais. Esses aspectos evidenciam o fortalecimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação como instâncias socializadoras no processo de construção identitária na contemporaneidade e a contribuição do acesso à internet para o enriquecimento da pesquisa sobre assexualidade.}, journaltitle = {Educação em Revista}, author = {Oliveira, Elisabete R. B. and Vianna, Cláudia Pereira}, date = {2018}, langid = {portuguese}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/3G8CB4D5/Oliveira and Vianna - 2018 - Quando e como usar entrevistas por e-mail Reflexõ.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{cerankowski_queer_2013, title = {Queer Dandy Style: The Cultural Politics of Tim Gunn's Asexuality}, volume = {41}, issn = {1934-1520}, url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/510272}, doi = {10.1353/wsq.2013.0059}, shorttitle = {Queer Dandy Style}, abstract = {In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Queer Dandy Style: The Cultural Politics of Tim Gunn's Asexuality Karli June Cerankowski (bio) It really is Fashion that has killed dandyism. —Roland Barthes, The Language of Fashion If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style —Quentin Crisp, Sunday Correspondent Magazine Dandyism is not dead. Contrary to Roland Barthes's assertion, quoted above, that fashion killed dandyism, dandyism lives on as it shape-shifts over time and remakes itself in different historical contexts. Nearly impossible to define, dandyism is an aesthetic and life philosophy; it is a lifestyle, and a queer one at that. In Dandyism, or The Anatomy of Dandyism, as it is sometimes translated, novelist and critic Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly reminds us that dandyism goes beyond a manner of dress and continually elides definition: "Dandyism is almost as difficult a thing to describe as it is to define. Those who see things only from a narrow point of view have imagined it to be especially the art of dress, a bold and felicitous dictatorship in the matter of clothes and exterior elegance. That it most certainly is, but much more besides. Dandyism is a complete theory of life and its material is not its only side. It is a way of existing, made up entirely of shades" (D'Aurevilly 1988, 31). In its various shades of instantiation, dandyism may even be perceived as a queer style, one that resists definition, blurs boundaries, and specifically plays with gender and its associations with sexuality. While many scholars have argued that queer expressions of gender do not necessarily correlate with homosexual desire, today, the sexuality of genderqueer dandies is often speculated on and interpreted as gay, [End Page 226] lesbian, or bisexual. In some cases, scholars of dandyism have reminded us that despite his effeminacy, the dandy male is indeed heterosexual. What is often missing from these readings is the possibility of the dandy as celibate or asexual.1 Although there is a historical association between the male dandy and a disinterest in sex, today's oft-hypersexualized conception of queerness tends to eclipse that possibility when we look at the dandy of the contemporary moment. For example, Tim Gunn, a revered gay American fashion icon, continues to shock fans and the blogosphere with his admission of nearly thirty years of celibacy and his self-identification as asexual. In this essay, I make the case that Gunn embodies the aesthetic and persona of the contemporary dandy, thus supporting the idea that dandyism is indeed still alive and, further, that today's dandy has something to teach us about masculinity and the ways in which sexual categories are constructed around gender presentation and normative expectations of sexual desire and attraction. Monica Miller, a scholar in African American cultural studies, suggests that "dandies must choose the vocation, must commit to a study of the fashions that define them and an examination of the trends around which they can continually redefine themselves" (2009, 8). As former faculty and chair of the fashion design program at Parsons School of Design, author of two books on style, hit television personality of Project Runway fame, and host of his own makeover show, no other popular American figure today seems more committed to the vocation and study of fashion than Tim Gunn. Through this demonstrated commitment, along with his "redeployment of clothing, gesture, and wit," to confuse constructions and assumptions of gender and sexuality (Miller 2009, 5), I read Tim Gunn as the quintessential contemporary "pop" dandy figure. Both in his television persona and his writings, Gunn performs a style of the new millennial dandy: he is finely dressed, astute, well mannered, proper, public, and quite fashionable. He revives the asexual history of the dandy through his own coming out as "sort of asexual" and cataloging of twenty-nine years of celibacy, all while maintaining his gay identity. To be clear, I am not interested in presenting Gunn as a figurehead of any type of movement, nor am I concerned with an analysis of his person. Instead, I am invested in how the spectacle of Tim Gunn lends us tools for analyzing the percussive effects of a dandy style in terms of...}, pages = {226--244}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {{WSQ}: Women's Studies Quarterly}, author = {Cerankowski, Karli June}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-06-15}, } @article{hammack_queer_2018, title = {Queer Intimacies: A New Paradigm for the Study of Relationship Diversity}, volume = {0}, issn = {0022-4499}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1531281}, doi = {10.1080/00224499.2018.1531281}, shorttitle = {Queer Intimacies}, abstract = {Recognition of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century challenges normative assumptions of intimacy that privilege heterosexual monogamy and the biological family unit, presume binary cisgender identities, essentialize binary sexual identities, and view sexual or romantic desire as necessary. We propose a queer paradigm to study relationship diversity grounded in seven axioms: intimacy may occur (1) within relationships featuring any combination of cisgender, transgender, or nonbinary identities; (2) with people of multiple gender identities across the life course; (3) in multiple relationships simultaneously with consent; (4) within relationships characterized by consensual asymmetry, power exchange, or role-play; (5) in the absence or limited experience of sexual or romantic desire; (6) in the context of a chosen rather than biological family; and (7) in other possible forms yet unknown. We review research on queer relational forms, including same-sex relationships; relationships in which one or more partners identify as transgender, gender nonbinary, bisexual, pansexual, sexually fluid, “mostly” straight, asexual, or aromantic; polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy; kink/fetish relationships; and chosen families. We argue that a queer paradigm shifts the dominant scientific conception of relationships away from the confines of normativity toward an embrace of diversity, fluidity, and possibility.}, pages = {1--37}, number = {0}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sex Research}, author = {Hammack, Phillip L. and Frost, David M. and Hughes, Sam D.}, date = {2018-10-26}, pmid = {30362833}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/MYFPUJGW/Hammack et al. - 2018 - Queer Intimacies A New Paradigm for the Study of .pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{canning_queering_2015, title = {Queering Asexuality: Asexual-Inclusion in Queer Spaces}, volume = {8}, url = {https://commons.emich.edu/mcnair/vol8/iss1/6/}, shorttitle = {Queering Asexuality}, abstract = {Discussions about emerging sexual identities are prevalent in today’s society. As our recognition of the diversity of sexual identities grows, so does our need to define these identities and to better understand how they represent the human experience. One such identity is asexuality, which is defined by the Asexual Visibility and Education Network ({AVEN}) as a “person who experiences no sexual attraction” (“Overview” n.d.). In this research, I will analyze the debate over whether asexual individuals should be considered “queer.” This analysis will examine previous research that focuses on identity, discourse, and boundaries between identities. The goal of this research is to enrich our understanding of how people use language to make identity statements, and to negotiate and navigate boundaries between identities by answering the following questions: 1.) Why might boundaries exist between identities? 2.) How does discourse vary, based on a group’s status within a conversation? 3.) Why is the conversation surrounding asexual inclusion important?}, pages = {55--74}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {{McNair} Scholars Research Journal}, author = {Canning, Dominique A.}, urldate = {2017-01-19}, date = {2015}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{aquino_neiva_quem_2017, location = {Goiânia}, title = {Quem Precisa de Diagnóstico? Reflexão Antropológica sobre a Despatologização e a Visibilidade Política na Assexualidade}, isbn = {978-85-933803-9-6}, url = {https://www.cegraf.ufg.br/up/688/o/ebook_genero_sexualidade_saude.pdf}, series = {Coleção Diferença}, shorttitle = {Quem Precisa de Diagnóstico?}, abstract = {Em minha pesquisa de caráter qualitativo e etnográfico no curso de Doutorado, no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da Universidade Federal de Goiás ({PPGAS} – {UFG}), estudo as relações implicadas entre identidade, movimento político e a produção discursiva de categorias e convenções sexuais no que diz respeito aos sujeitos assexuais (categoria êmica para se referir à assexualidade enquanto orientação sexual e que significa, em linhas gerais, pessoas que abdicam de praticar relações sexuais com outrem). [...]}, pages = {101--121}, number = {1}, booktitle = {Gênero, Sexualidade e Saúde: Diálogos latino-americanos}, publisher = {Editora da Imprensa Universitária}, author = {Aquino Neiva, Geórgia de}, date = {2017}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{fahs_radical_2010, title = {Radical refusals: On the anarchist politics of women choosing asexuality}, volume = {13}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460710370650}, doi = {10.1177/1363460710370650}, shorttitle = {Radical refusals}, abstract = {This article examines how women consciously choosing asexuality might inform both radical feminist politics and anarchic concepts of positive and negative liberty. By resituating some of the lesser-known narratives of the 1960s’ and 1970s’ radical feminist movement (e.g. Valerie Solanas’ {SCUM} Manifesto and Boston’s Cell 16 and No More Fun and Games), asexuality is shown to disrupt key intersections between sexuality and the state, particularly institutions that control reproduction, pleasure, and women’s bodies. Using interview data with Cell 16 members, content analysis of early radical feminist writings, and theoretical and historical analyses of separatism, the piece argues that, by removing themselves from sexuality, women can take a more anarchic stance against the entire institution of sex, thereby working toward more nihilistic, anti-reproduction, anti-family goals that severely disrupt commonly held assumptions about sex, gender, and power.}, pages = {445--461}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Fahs, Breanne}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2010-08-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{chasin_reconsidering_2013, title = {Reconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential}, volume = {39}, issn = {0046-3663}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/23719054}, pages = {405--426}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Feminist Studies}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013}, } @article{noauthor_reconsidering_nodate, title = {Reconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential}, pages = {23}, langid = {english}, } @article{dawson_recruitment_2016, title = {Recruitment as an ethical question: lessons from a project on asexuality}, issn = {1364-5579}, url = {http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/131741/}, shorttitle = {Recruitment as an ethical question}, abstract = {This short piece considers how participant recruitment can have ethical elements. With reference to a qualitative research project on asexuality we explore the challenges associated with recruiting from an emerging, and politically charged, identity group. In our attempt to broaden the representation of asexual stories we sought to recruit people who may not fully identify with the emerging term ‘asexual’ as a sexual orientation while also not equating this with a lifestyle choice of abstinence. This was attempted through crafting suitable recruitment materials via the use of the Mass Observation archive and expanded sampling criteria. Our efforts met with mixed success, on which we reflect. We conclude by suggesting how such ethical questions related to recruitment will remain ‘gaps’ in ethical regulation, calling for a greater reflexive approach from researchers about sampling criteria.}, journaltitle = {International Journal of Social Research Methodology}, author = {Dawson, Matt and {McDonnell}, Liz and Scott, Susie}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2016-11-22}, langid = {english}, } @article{gelpi_reflexiones_2021, title = {Reflexiones acerca de la asexualidad a partir de dos experiencias clínicas en el {CRAm}}, rights = {Derechos de autor 2021 {RELIES}: Revista del Laboratorio Iberoamericano para el Estudio Sociohistórico de las Sexualidades}, issn = {2659-8620}, url = {https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/relies/article/view/5334}, doi = {10.46661/relies.5334}, abstract = {Relies es la Revista del Laboratorio Iberoamericano para el Estudio Sociohistórico de las Sexualidades de carácter abierto. Su objetivo es el análisis inter y pluridisciplinar de la sexualidad, el cuerpo y el g´éero. Acepta artículos de investigación, ensayos y reseña de libros, y traduccciones de artículos relevantes. A su vez, se acepta propuestas de monográficos.}, pages = {99--119}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {{RELIES}: Revista del Laboratorio Iberoamericano para el Estudio Sociohistórico de las Sexualidades}, author = {Gelpi, Gonzalo and Suñol, Nahuel}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2021-02-03}, langid = {spanish}, keywords = {Historia, Iberoamérica, Sexualidades, sexualities, Sociología, violencia sexual}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/2JZEXRND/Gelpi and Suñol - 2021 - Reflexiones acerca de la asexualidad a partir de d.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{brotto_reply_2009, title = {Reply to Hinderliter (2009)}, volume = {38}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-009-9514-6}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-009-9514-6}, pages = {622--623}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A. and Yule, Morag A.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2009-10-01}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{filipova_representation_2017, location = {Frankfurt am Main}, title = {Representation of Asexuality in The Big Bang Theory}, isbn = {978-3-631-66547-3}, url = {https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783631709412/chapter-009.xhtml}, series = {New Americanists in Poland}, abstract = {Using the example of The Big Bang Theory (2007-present), this paper strives to demonstrate the stereotypization of asexual characters in American sitcoms as less human, socially inept, and incapable of forming healthy relationships.}, booktitle = {Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, author = {Filipová, Petra}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, } @article{bezerra_resenha_2015, title = {Resenha: Understanding Assexuality}, volume = {6}, url = {http://177.101.17.124/index.php/rlagg/article/view/6987}, abstract = {[Book review] A literatura acadêmica sobre a assexualidade começou há dez anos com Anthony Bogaert. Influenciado pelo crescente número de internautas que reivindicavam a assexualidade como sua orientação sexual, esse pesquisador procurou indicativos estatísticos da existência dessa nova minoria. Em seu artigo de 2004, ele analisou dados de um amplo questionário sobre saúde e práticas sexuais e concluiu que 1\% da população britânica é assexual. Em 2006, buscou argumentos para conceituar a assexualidade, inaugurando também uma discussão teórica sobre o assunto. Dado esse pioneirismo, não é de se espantar que Bogaert agora assine também o primeiro livro dedicado ao tema.}, pages = {281 -- 283}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Revista Latino-americana de Geografia e Gênero}, author = {Bezerra, Paulo Victor}, date = {2015}, langid = {portuguese}, } @report{goiri_resultados_2015, title = {Resultados de las encuestas de {AVENes} desde 2011 a principios de 2015}, url = {http://es.asexuality.org/files/ResultadosAVENes2011-2014.pdf}, abstract = {Analysis of the responses to the Encuestas {AVENes} para asexuales ({AVENes} Surveys for asexuals) of 2011 to 2014. These online annual surveys looked to study the Spanish-speaking asexual community and considered demographic questions related to gender, age, nationality, (a)sexual and romantic identities, sexual fantasies and sexual behavior, among many others.}, institution = {{AVENes}, Red para la Educación y la Visibilidad de la Asexualidad}, author = {Goiri, Ene}, date = {2015-01}, } @article{scott_rethinking_2015, title = {Rethinking asexuality: A Symbolic Interactionist account}, volume = {18}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460714531273}, doi = {10.1177/1363460714531273}, shorttitle = {Rethinking asexuality}, abstract = {This article aims to contribute a Symbolic Interactionist approach to the study of asexuality. Previous research in psychology, sexology and sociology has had an individualized focus, which has downplayed the interactive and relational dimensions of asexual identities. In order to capture such elements we demonstrate the relevance of some key Symbolic Interactionist concepts: meaning, negotiation, social selfhood and trajectory. In doing so, we suggest it is possible to see asexual identity as a process of becoming within the context of negotiation with intimate others.}, pages = {3--19}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Scott, Susie and Dawson, Matt}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2015-02-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/KMFAGRP7/Scott and Dawson - 2015 - Rethinking asexuality A Symbolic Interactionist a.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{catri_revision_2016, title = {Revisión narrativa de la asexualidad en la especie humana como una orientación sexual}, volume = {34}, issn = {0213-3334}, url = {http://apuntesdepsicologia.es/index.php/revista/article/view/582}, abstract = {The purpose of this article is to describe the current state of knowledge about asexuality as a sexual orientation. In particular, the following issues are analyzed: the asexual virtual community; definitions and prevalence rates of asexuality; masturbation, sexual fantasies and partner relationships in asexual individuals; asexuality`s relationship with some mental disorders; discrimination to asexual individuals. It is concluded that asexuality can be defined as meta-construct that encompasses different categories, lack of sexual attraction and self-identification among them. Its prevalence rate varies depending on the definition used. Asexual individuals have a certain level of sexual desire, as well as sexual behaviors. Asexuality is not considered a variant of hypoactive sexual desire disorder, nor a disorder itself, although some studies associate it with a higher percentage of mental disorders. However, this relationship is explained by the social stigma and discrimination against asexual individuals. Asexuality questions the way in which sexuality is understood nowadays. Some lines of research are suggested.}, pages = {5--18}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Apuntes de Psicología}, author = {Catri, Florencia}, date = {2016}, } @report{bell_romantic_2015, title = {Romantic Identity and {LGBTQ} Identification: Variations of Experience in the Asexual Community}, url = {http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15411}, shorttitle = {Romantic Identity and {LGBTQ} Identification}, abstract = {As a relatively new identity category, asexuality has received only a small amount of academic attention. With what little research has been done, it has been established that there is a great amount of variability of meaning within the label “asexual”, particularly within the domain of romantic orientation. In light of this, and of asexuality’s invisibility even in comparison to other marginalized sexual orientations, this research sought to investigate the possibility that romantic identity impacts asexual individual’s relationship with the larger {LGBTQ}+ community by distributing an online quantitative survey to self-identified asexuals. The hypothesis was that hetero-romantic and aromantic individuals may report a more negative relationship with the {LGBTQ}+ community while also believing that asexuals as a whole deserve to be included within the {LGBTQ}+ umbrella. The results showed several significant relationships showing that being heteroromantic predicted a more negative relationship with the {LGBTQ}+ community. However, many items did not prove statistically significant, and the data on aromantics did not display the same patterns as the heteroromantic data. In order to fully understand the relationships found, future qualitative research is needed.}, author = {Bell, Alexa}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2015-01-01}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.15760/honors.159}, file = {Full Text:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/S9HDCAPF/Bell - 2015 - Romantic Identity and LGBTQ Identification Variat.pdf:application/pdf}, } @inproceedings{oliveira_saindo_2013, location = {Florianópolis (Brasil)}, title = {Saindo do Armário: A assexualidade na perspectiva da {AVEN} - Asexual Visibility and Education Network}, url = {http://www.acaoeducativa.org.br/fdh/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2013_Saindo-do-Armario_Asexualidade_Aven_ElisabeteReginaBaptistadeOliveira.pdf}, abstract = {The lack of sexual desire has traditionally been treated by science as a psychological or physiological disorder, partially due to the historical assumption that sexual desire is universal. Recently, however, a new redefinition of the lack of sexual desire has been gaining visibility. Instead of disorder, people who identify as asexual have been claiming the status of sexual orientation for their lack of interest for sex. This article discusses the emergence of the concept of asexuality in online asexual communities in the United States, focusing on {AVEN} - Asexual Visibility and Education Netweok - the largest online asexual community in the U.S. The paper presents preliminary results of an ongoing doctorate research whose goal is to understand the challenges of the construction of the sexual orientation and gender identities of individuals who identify as asexial in Brazil. The research gives emphasis to the school enviroment as an important agent of socialization of different sexualities, considering that -despite the fact that asexuality in unknown in education-, asexual individuals report experiencing hompphobic discrimination in school.}, eventtitle = {Seminário Internacional Fazendo Gênero 10: Desafios Atuais dos Feminismos}, author = {Oliveira, Elisabete R. B.}, date = {2013}, langid = {portuguese}, } @article{faris_saliendo_2018, title = {Saliendo de la Otra Esquina del Clóset: Arrojando Luz hacia la Asexualidad.}, volume = {33}, issn = {2380-3002}, url = {https://cienciasdelaconducta.org/index.php/cdc/article/view/5}, shorttitle = {Saliendo de la Otra Esquina del Clóset}, abstract = {Human sexuality has been a topic of controversy and vicissitudes. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding sexual diversity. Due to the significance sexuality has throughout the life cycle, it is of utmost importance to comprehend the different variations regarding sexual identity. Studies of sexual identity, specifically those focused on sexual orientation, have fixated on the presence of sexuality. As a result, there is a lack of awareness and general knowledge regarding asexuality. There is a need for education, not only for the public, but also for any health care professional who provides services to the community. So that every person can converse in a considerate and effective manner or in the case of health care professionals, when interacting with clients who do not identify as heterosexual, to guarantee the best possible experience in medical care. The aim of this short article is to introduce the concept of asexuality, to abound on its discussion in several areas of interest and to provide recommendations for clinical and investigative work. Recognizing that asexuality isn’t just black and white, there’s a gray area in between.}, pages = {75--94}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Ciencias de la Conducta}, author = {Faris, Mariam S. and Esteban, Caleb}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2018}, langid = {spanish}, keywords = {asexualidad, diversidad, minoría, orientación sexual, sexualidad}, } @report{garcia-martinez_scentia_2021, title = {Scentia asexualis: Foucault, identidad, despatologización y asexualidad}, url = {https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jkd8v/}, shorttitle = {Scentia asexualis}, abstract = {La asexualidad como nueva emergencia identitaria reivindicada en occidente permite aplicar y poner en debate los planteamientos foucaultianos señalados en Historia de la Sexualidad, concretamente en el primer volumen, “La voluntad del saber”, donde se recogen reflexiones con respecto a la sexualidad contemporánea. Este intercambio pretende ser fructífero tanto para las teorizaciones de la sexualidad como para la investigación aplicada a la asexualidad en concreto. De este debate surge la necesidad de conceptualizar una scentia asexualis, una ciencia asexual, que se articula a partir de la controversia en choque respecto a cómo subjetivar la asexualidad. Es aquí donde encontramos un choque radical entre dos posiciones contrapuestas; patología u orientación sexual legítima. La inclusión de la asexualidad dentro del espectro fluido de la sexualidad implica un cuestionamiento profundo de la salud, especialmente la salud mental, y la identidad como categorías. Al mismo tiempo, se concluye con la importancia de una concepción fluida y abierta de la sexualidad que a su vez recoja identidades dentro de la diversidad que tengan un espacio desde el que apropiarse y a partir del cual empoderarse frente al conjunto de la sociedad.}, institution = {{SocArXiv}}, author = {García-Martínez, Javier}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2021-12-07}, doi = {10.31235/osf.io/jkd8v}, note = {type: article}, keywords = {asexualidad, despatologización, Foucault, Historia de la Sexualidad, identidad, identidad sexual, {LGBT}, {LGBTQ}, salud mental, scentia asexualis, sexualidad, Sexualities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology}, } @thesis{lopez_ruiz_sexo_2015, location = {España}, title = {Sexo en tiempos de crisis global: la asexualidad como nueva forma de identidad}, url = {http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/view/tesisuned:CiencPolSoc-Mtlopez}, abstract = {El cansancio del dogma pro-sexual aparece así como parte del proceso más general de desvinculación de la masculinización, que en los términos en los que lo define Hofstede, no es otra cosa que desvinculación del proceso de darwinización social, que afecta a todos los ámbitos de la existencia, y que hoy se hipertensiona, creando formas de resistencia cuya verdadera fuerza se encuentra en la vida cotidiana y en la impugnación de los usos, costumbres y comportamientos (Echeverría, 2011) cuyo sentido y significados se reconstruyen hoy en un modelo de relación intersubjetiva que, en su forma ideal, carece ya (o imagina carecer) de agencia coercitiva externa. Lo que no comporta que los asexuales no deban enfrentar en su cotidianeidad multitud de problemas derivados de la forma en la que la mayoría de las personas entiende la sexualidad, y de la patologización -clínica y social- del desinterés por las relaciones sexuales. Las redes virtuales se transforman entonces no sólo en canal de comunicación, sino en refugio, en tanto conforman el lugar actual en el que el quién eres tu habermasiano del habla desaparece, haciendo posible la garantía de no humillación (Sánchez de la Yncera, en referencia a Rorty, en García-Blanco y Navarro Sustaeta (2002)).}, pagetotal = {443}, institution = {Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia}, type = {Doctoral theses}, author = {López Ruiz, María Teresa}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2015}, } @book{kinsey_sexual_1998, title = {Sexual Behavior in the Human Female}, isbn = {978-0-253-01924-0}, abstract = {Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity and how such factors as age, decade of birth, and religious adherence are reflected in patterns of sexual behavior. The authors make comparisons of female and male sexual activities and investigate the factors which account for the similarities and differences between female and male patterns of behavior and provide some measure of the social significance of the various types of sexual behavior.}, pagetotal = {885}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, author = {Kinsey, Alfred C. and Pomeroy, Wardell B. and Martin, Clyde E. and Gebhard, Paul H.}, date = {1998-05-22}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {JHWHCgAAQBAJ}}, } @book{kinsey_sexual_1998-1, title = {Sexual Behavior in the Human Male}, isbn = {978-0-253-33412-1}, abstract = {When published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding sex. They employed first hand interviews to gather this data. This volume is based upon histories of approximately 5,300 males which were collected during a fifteen year period. This text describes the methodology, sampling, coding, interviewing, statistical analyses, and then examines factors and sources of sexual outlet.}, pagetotal = {832}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, author = {Kinsey, Alfred Charles and Pomeroy, Wardell Baxter and Martin, Clyde Eugene}, date = {1998}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {pfMKrY}3VvigC}, } @incollection{demazeux_sexual_2015, location = {Dordrecht}, title = {Sexual Dysfunctions and Asexuality in {DSM}-5}, volume = {10}, isbn = {978-94-017-9764-1 978-94-017-9765-8}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-9765-8_8}, pages = {125--139}, booktitle = {The {DSM}-5 in Perspective}, publisher = {Springer Netherlands}, author = {Hinderliter, Andrew}, editor = {Demazeux, Steeves and Singy, Patrick}, urldate = {2017-01-02}, date = {2015}, keywords = {{DSM}}, } @article{yule_sexual_2014, title = {Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals}, volume = {23}, issn = {1188-4517}, url = {http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjhs.2409}, doi = {10.3138/cjhs.2409}, abstract = {Human asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction, and research suggests that it may be best conceptualized as a sexual orientation. Sexual fantasies are thought to be universally experienced and are often understood to represent true sexual desire more accurately than sexual behaviour. We investigated the relationship between asexuality, masturbation and sexual fantasy as part of a larger online study. Self-identified asexual individuals were compared to sexual individuals with and without low sexual desire. A total of 924 individuals (153 men, 533 women, and 238 individuals who did not respond to the query about sex) completed online questions asking about masturbation and sexual fantasy. Five hundred thirty four were classified in the asexual group, 87 met diagnostic criteria for hypoactive sexual desire disorder ({HSDD}), 78 met criteria for subthreshold {HSDD} without distress, and 187 were a sexual comparison group (i.e., identified as sexual, and had no reported difficulties in sexual desire or distress). Asexual individuals were significantly less likely to have masturbated in the past month and significantly more likely to report never having had a sexual fantasy. Specifically, 40\% of asexual participants reported never having had a sexual fantasy compared to between 1\% and 8\% of participants in the sexual groups. Eleven percent of asexual individuals reported that their sexual fantasies did not involve other people, compared to 1.5\% of all sexual individuals. Taken together, these findings suggest that there are notable differences in patterns of sexual fantasy between asexual individuals and sexual individuals with and without low sexual desire.}, pages = {89--95}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality}, shortjournal = {The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality}, author = {Yule, Morag A. and Brotto, Lori A. and Gorzalka, Boris B.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2014-01-01}, } @article{yule_sexual_2017, title = {Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals: An In-Depth Exploration}, volume = {46}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0870-8}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0870-8}, shorttitle = {Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals}, abstract = {Human asexuality is generally defined as a lack of sexual attraction. We used online questionnaires to investigate reasons for masturbation, and explored and compared the contents of sexual fantasies of asexual individuals (identified using the Asexual Identification Scale) with those of sexual individuals. A total of 351 asexual participants (292 women, 59 men) and 388 sexual participants (221 women, 167 men) participated. Asexual women were significantly less likely to masturbate than sexual women, sexual men, and asexual men. Asexual women were less likely to report masturbating for sexual pleasure or fun than their sexual counterparts, and asexual men were less likely to report masturbating for sexual pleasure than sexual men. Both asexual women and men were significantly more likely than sexual women and men to report that they had never had a sexual fantasy. Of those who have had a sexual fantasy, asexual women and men were significantly more likely to endorse the response “my fantasies do not involve other people” compared to sexual participants, and consistently scored each sexual fantasy on a questionnaire as being less sexually exciting than did sexual participants. When using an open-ended format, asexual participants were more likely to report having fantasies about sexual activities that did not involve themselves, and were less likely to fantasize about topics such as group sex, public sex, and having an affair. Interestingly, there was a large amount of overlap between sexual fantasies of asexual and sexual participants. Notably, both asexual and sexual participants (both men and women) were equally likely to fantasize about topics such as fetishes and {BDSM}.}, pages = {311--328}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Yule, Morag A. and Brotto, Lori A. and Gorzalka, Boris B.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2017-01-01}, langid = {english}, keywords = {fantasy, masturbation}, } @report{noauthor_sexual_2020, title = {Sexual orientation and attitudes to {LGBTQ}+ in Britain}, pages = {11}, institution = {Ipsos}, date = {2020-06}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{storms_sexual_1979, title = {Sexual Orientation and Self-Perception}, rights = {©1979 Plenum Press, New York}, isbn = {978-1-4684-3550-4 978-1-4684-3548-1}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-3548-1_7}, series = {Advances in the Study of Communication and Affect}, abstract = {In this chapter, we will outline a tentative model of the process by which people decide their sexual orientation. We will assume, like any good attribution theorist, that sexual orientation is not simply "known" but is inferred from data about one's own behavior, thoughts, and feelings. We will suggest that two sources of information about the self provide the primary inputs into the self-perception process—information about one's erotic impulses (as evidenced by one's sexual behavior and erotic fantasies) and information about one's gender characteristics (as evidenced by one's "masculine" and "femenine" behaviors and attributes). Finally, we will present data we have recently collected that bear on the role these two types of information play in self-attributions of sexual orientation.}, pages = {165--180}, number = {5}, booktitle = {Perception of Emotion in Self and Others}, publisher = {Springer {US}}, author = {Storms, Michael D.}, editor = {Pliner, Patricia and Blankstein, Kirk R. and Spigel, Irwin M.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {1979}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1007/978-1-4684-3548-1_7}, } @article{howard_sexual_2019, title = {Sexual violence victimization among community college students}, volume = {67}, issn = {0744-8481}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1500474}, doi = {10.1080/07448481.2018.1500474}, abstract = {Objective: To assess the prevalence of sexual violence victimization among a community college student population. Participants: In March 2017, students (800) from seven community colleges in a northeastern state participated in an online campus climate survey using the {ARC}3 Survey Instrument. Methods: We analyze demographic differences between participants who were victimized and those who were not, and we examine the relationship between participant victimization and well-being. Results: Participants who identified as female, younger than 26, not heterosexual, or a race other than Caucasian were significantly more likely to report victimization. Participants who reported victimization were significantly more likely to score negatively on well-being scales than those who did not.Conclusions: Sexual violence prevalence rates among community college students are similar to reported prevalence rates among traditional 4-year undergraduate students. Results suggest a need for increased research on sexual violence among the understudied community college student population.}, pages = {674--687}, number = {7}, journaltitle = {Journal of American College Health}, author = {Howard, Rebecca M. and Potter, Sharyn J. and Guedj, Céline E. and Moynihan, Mary M.}, urldate = {2020-12-02}, date = {2019-10-03}, pmid = {30257142}, note = {Publisher: Taylor \& Francis \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1500474}, keywords = {{ARC}3 climate survey, campus climate survey, college health, Community college, sexual assault, sexual violence}, } @article{gilmour_sexuality_2012, title = {Sexuality in a Community Based Sample of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder}, volume = {6}, issn = {1750-9467}, doi = {10.1016/j.rasd.2011.06.003}, abstract = {Few studies have examined the sexual attitudes and behaviours of individuals with high functioning autism spectrum disorders ({ASDs}) living in community settings. A total of 82 (55 female and 17 male) adults with autism were contrasted with 282 members of the general population on their responses to an online survey of sexual knowledge and experiences. Findings revealed that individuals with {ASD} display an interest in sex and engage in sexual behaviours and showed no significant differences in breadth and strength of sexual behaviours and comprehension of sexual language when contrasted with non-{ASD} participants. However, despite these similarities, a higher rate of asexuality was found among individuals with {ASD}. In addition, the results of the current study indicated that females with {ASD} show a significantly lower degree of heterosexuality when compared to males with {ASD}. The results also suggested a higher degree of homosexuality among females with {ASD} although this effect did not reach significance. (Contains 2 tables.)}, pages = {313--318}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders}, author = {Gilmour, Laura\{{\textbackslash}textbar\}Schalomon}, urldate = {2017-01-27}, date = {2012}, langid = {english}, } @report{carvalho_sexuality_2021, title = {Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of Asexual Individuals: Differences Between Aromantic and Romantic Orientation}, url = {https://osf.io/f5hrb}, shorttitle = {Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of Asexual Individuals}, abstract = {Asexuality is a complex construct with a considerable lack of research until recently. Building upon available findings, we examined the extent to which romantic orientation shapes individual and relationship experiences and expectations of asexual individuals. Specifically, our research focused on the distinction between romantic asexual individuals, who experience romantic attraction, and aromantic asexual individuals, who do not experience romantic attraction. A cross-sectional study with members of different asexual online communities (N = 447, 55.02\% women; Mage = 24.77, {SD} = 7.21) aimed at examining how both groups differ in their identification with the asexuality construct as measured by the Asexuality Identification Scale (Yule et al., 2015), individual perspectives on sexuality, sexual behavior and relationships, concerns about commitment and sexual performance in a relationship, and attachment style. Results showed that aromantic asexual individuals identified more with asexuality, reported a more avoidant attachment style, and were more concerned with relationship commitment. In contrast, romantic asexual individuals reported less sex aversion, more sexual experiences (both past and current), and more sexual partners in the past. These individuals also indicated to have engaged in romantic relationships more frequently, desire to engage in romantic relationship in the future (either with or without sexual intimacy), and were more concerned with sexual performance. Overall, our findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the need to consider romantic orientation when examining asexuality and its interpersonal outcomes.}, institution = {{PsyArXiv}}, type = {preprint}, author = {Carvalho, Ana Catarina and Rodrigues, David L.}, urldate = {2022-03-08}, date = {2021-08-26}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.31234/osf.io/f5hrb}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/QNGHNI6T/Carvalho and Rodrigues - 2021 - Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @report{carvalho_sexuality_2021-1, title = {Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of Asexual Individuals: Differences Between Aromantic and Romantic Orientation}, url = {https://osf.io/f5hrb}, shorttitle = {Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of Asexual Individuals}, abstract = {Asexuality is a complex construct with a considerable lack of research until recently. Building upon available findings, we examined the extent to which romantic orientation shapes individual and relationship experiences and expectations of asexual individuals. Specifically, our research focused on the distinction between romantic asexual individuals, who experience romantic attraction, and aromantic asexual individuals, who do not experience romantic attraction. A cross-sectional study with members of different asexual online communities (N = 447, 55.02\% women; Mage = 24.77, {SD} = 7.21) aimed at examining how both groups differ in their identification with the asexuality construct as measured by the Asexuality Identification Scale (Yule et al., 2015), individual perspectives on sexuality, sexual behavior and relationships, concerns about commitment and sexual performance in a relationship, and attachment style. Results showed that aromantic asexual individuals identified more with asexuality, reported a more avoidant attachment style, and were more concerned with relationship commitment. In contrast, romantic asexual individuals reported less sex aversion, more sexual experiences (both past and current), and more sexual partners in the past. These individuals also indicated to have engaged in romantic relationships more frequently, desire to engage in romantic relationship in the future (either with or without sexual intimacy), and were more concerned with sexual performance. Overall, our findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the need to consider romantic orientation when examining asexuality and its interpersonal outcomes.}, institution = {{PsyArXiv}}, type = {preprint}, author = {Carvalho, Ana Catarina and Rodrigues, David L.}, urldate = {2022-03-08}, date = {2021-08-26}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.31234/osf.io/f5hrb}, file = {Submitted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/9NN373SJ/Carvalho and Rodrigues - 2021 - Sexuality, Sexual Behavior, and Relationships of A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{wojton_sherlock_2016, title = {Sherlock Fandom Online: Toward an Ethic of Advocacy}, url = {http://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5211}, shorttitle = {Sherlock Fandom Online}, abstract = {This study applies theories of texts and technologies to examine ways in which fan culture and mainstream entertainment media can shape and be shaped by each other through digital interactions and negotiations. Further, it considers ways in which these interactions have potential to foster community building and advocacy efforts beyond the limitations of the screen. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the subject of asexuality as it is represented in {BBC}'s 2010 television series, Sherlock, tracing the multiple ways in which the traditional boundaries between fans and entertainment professionals have been breached as each group works to engage the other while pursuing their separate objectives, including social change, personal and professional acceptance and/or acclaim, and commercial profit. The dissertation traces four distinct but interconnected types/sites of interface among fans, advocates, mainstream media, showrunners, and celebrities, including 1) mainstream media articles related to Sherlock and those officially associated with it; 2) social media; 3) single-owner or small group-operated fan websites; and 4) fan fiction and associated comments. This interdisciplinary project draws on the work of fandom/digital culture scholarship (e.g., Henry Jenkins, Matthew Hills, Paul Boothe) within a broader framework informed by scholars of digital culture and queer and feminist ideologies (e.g., Donna Haraway, Lee Edelmen, Lauren Berlant), as well as emerging scholarship on asexuality, which is informed by queer and feminist perspectives (e.g., Brenda Chu, Julia Decker, Jacinthe Flore).}, institution = {University of Central Florida}, type = {Doctoral thesis}, author = {Wojton, Jennifer}, date = {2016-01-01}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{farghaly_sherlocked_2015, title = {Sherlocked: Homosociality and (A)sexuality}, isbn = {978-1-4766-2281-1}, abstract = {From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle’s stories proves as interesting as the astute detective’s constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow seems both superfluous and essential. While Conan Doyle does not depict Holmes and Watson as equals, he avoids presenting Watson as incompetent, as he was made to appear on screen for decades. A variety of reimagined Holmeses and Watsons in recent years have depicted their relationship as more nuanced and complementary. Focusing on the Guy Ritchie films, the {BBC}’s Sherlock and {CBS}’s Elementary, this collection of new essays explores the ideas and implications behind these adaptations.}, booktitle = {Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009}, publisher = {{McFarland}}, author = {Waltonen, Karma}, editor = {Farghaly, Nadine}, date = {2015-12-23}, langid = {english}, note = {Google-Books-{ID}: {UWtECwAAQBAJ}}, keywords = {Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Mystery \& Detective, Performing Arts / Film / General, Performing Arts / Television / General}, } @thesis{marks_sick_2017, location = {[Iowa City]}, title = {"Sick, Dead, or Lying:" A critical textual analysis of asexuality in popular culture}, url = {https://ir.uiowa.edu/honors_theses/68/}, shorttitle = {"Sick, Dead, or Lying"}, abstract = {This senior capstone research project is a double thesis in {GWSS} and Journalism \& Mass Communication. This thesis critically analyses the representation of asexuality in contemporary film and television and argues that popular culture often “symbolically annihilates” asexuality, misrepresenting it as a lack of social skills or as a physical or mental disability rather than a legitimate sexual orientation. It asserts that the vast majority of asexual representation in media exists through hints, clues and insinuations, not outright statements of identity, and that unfortunately, those few times characters are actually named as asexual, they very rarely depict it as a legitimate sexual orientation.}, pagetotal = {54}, institution = {University of Iowa}, type = {{BA} (Bachelor of Arts) Thesis}, author = {Marks, Benjamin}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{westberg_slashing_2017, title = {Slashing the Invisible}, booktitle = {Sex, Subversion and Bodily Boundaries}, author = {Westberg, Lysa Hannah Pernille Nielsen}, date = {2017}, } @inproceedings{rosero_soy_2013, location = {Rosario (Argentina)}, title = {Soy asexual, no estoy enferma}, url = {http://www.puds.unr.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ortiz-Rosero-E.-Soy-asexual-no-estoy-enferma1.pdf}, abstract = {Mi ponencia parte de una crítica a un artículo publicado en el diario El País, en enero de este año. En éste se trata de manera sesgada y patologizante el tema de la asexualidad, coincidiendo con estereotipos y prejuicios que socialmente pesan sobre las personas asexuales. A partir de esta crítica, relato también mi experiencia de vida como asexual, y cuestiono la tendencia a patologizar todas las conductas humanas que salen de la norma.}, eventtitle = {{II} Coloquio Internacional “Saberes Contemporáneos desde la Diversidad Sexual: teoría, crítica, praxis”}, pages = {199--211}, publisher = {Programa Universitario de Diversidad Sexual, Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios, Universidad Nacional de Rosario}, author = {Rosero, Elsa Ortiz}, date = {2013}, } @article{hawkins_owen_still_2018, title = {still, nothing: Mammy and black asexual possibility}, volume = {120}, issn = {1466-4380}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41305-018-0140-9}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0140-9}, shorttitle = {still, nothing}, abstract = {Although many iterations of the mammy in the last two centuries have received analytical attention, the construction of this figure as asexual or undesiring and undesirable remains to be interrogated. This essay attends to this under-theorised dimension of her image. Resisting a reading of the mammy as fixed in silence, I assert that she might instead ‘say nothing’, and bring into focus a black asexual agency that I call a declarative silence. This strategy of ‘saying nothing’ is then explored in a reading of the withholdings of the character of Mama in Gayl Jones’s neo-slave narrative, Corregidora (1975).}, pages = {70--84}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Feminist Review}, author = {Hawkins Owen, Ianna}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @article{owen_still_2018, title = {still, nothing: Mammy and black asexual possibility}, volume = {120}, issn = {1466-4380}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0140-9}, doi = {10.1057/s41305-018-0140-9}, shorttitle = {still, nothing}, abstract = {{abstractAlthough} many iterations of the mammy in the last two centuries have received analytical attention, the construction of this figure as asexual or undesiring and undesirable remains to be interrogated. This essay attends to this under-theorised dimension of her image. Resisting a reading of the mammy as fixed in silence, I assert that she might instead ‘say nothing’, and bring into focus a black asexual agency that I call a declarative silence. This strategy of ‘saying nothing’ is then explored in a reading of the withholdings of the character of Mama in Gayl Jones’s neo-slave narrative, Corregidora (1975).}, pages = {70--84}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Feminist Review}, shortjournal = {Fem Rev}, author = {Owen, Ianna Hawkins}, date = {2018-11-01}, langid = {english}, keywords = {asexuality, black feminism, Corregidora, Mammy, silence}, } @article{van_houdenhove_stories_2015, title = {Stories About Asexuality: A Qualitative Study on Asexual Women}, volume = {41}, issn = {0092-623X, 1521-0715}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0092623X.2014.889053}, doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2014.889053}, shorttitle = {Stories About Asexuality}, pages = {262--281}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, shortjournal = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, author = {Van Houdenhove, Ellen and Gijs, Luk and T’Sjoen, Guy and Enzlin, Paul}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2015-05-04}, langid = {english}, } @article{scott_stories_2016, title = {Stories of Non-Becoming: Non-Issues, Non-Events and Non-Identities in Asexual Lives}, volume = {39}, issn = {1533-8665}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/symb.215/abstract}, doi = {10.1002/symb.215}, shorttitle = {Stories of Non-Becoming}, abstract = {In contrast to conventional models of positively “becoming” an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of “non-becoming,” whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-awareness, communicative negation and non-consolidation, each involving interactional contingencies. With a wider applicability to other repudiated identities, this model shows how even negational symbolic social objects (non-issues, non-events, and non-identities) are constituted through social interaction.}, pages = {268--286}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Symbolic Interaction}, shortjournal = {Symbolic Interaction}, author = {Scott, Susie and {McDonnell}, Liz and Dawson, Matt}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-05-01}, langid = {english}, file = {Accepted Version:/home/wren/Zotero/storage/AIX6X863/Scott et al. - 2016 - Stories of Non-Becoming Non-Issues, Non-Events an.pdf:application/pdf}, } @thesis{stucki_stucki_nodate, title = {Stucki 2018 Revised Thesis Draft}, type = {Thesis}, author = {Stucki, E}, } @report{jay_asexual_2003, location = {Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.}, title = {The Asexual Visibility and Education Network: A Look at Online Identity Formation}, url = {http://web.archive.org/web/20040712040017/http://www.asexuality.org/AVENpaper.pdf}, shorttitle = {The Asexual Visibility and Education Network}, pages = {16}, institution = {Wesleyan University}, type = {Undergraduate Paper}, author = {Jay, David}, date = {2003-05-13}, langid = {english}, } @article{francis_asexual-single_2016, title = {The Asexual-Single and the Collective: Remaking Queer Bonds in (A)sexual, Bill Cunningham New York, and Year of the Dog}, volume = {31}, issn = {0270-5346, 1529-1510}, url = {http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/content/31/1_91/27}, doi = {10.1215/02705346-3454419}, shorttitle = {The Asexual-Single and the Collective}, abstract = {This article examines a series of recent films that seeks to represent the often conflated categories of asexuality and singlehood. The films (A)sexual (dir. Angela Tucker, {US}, 2011), Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White, {US}, 2007), and Bill Cunningham New York (dir. Richard Press, {US}, 2010) illustrate that the binding of the asexual to the single, though seemingly misguided, can open up fruitful pathways for reimagining queer relationality. Responding in part to scholarship on singlehood and asexuality while also attending to the film studies historiography of sexuality, this essay challenges both the representability and study of these emergent types that seem legible only through their apparent lack. In its call to disassociate coupled and sexualized desire from the practice of engaging films' gender and sexual politics, this article analyzes examples in independent cinema that seek to bring longings for collectivity, without an identitarian focus, to the foreground of political consciousness. These filmic examples thus struggle to find a space for the queer collective in place of more traditional modes of coupled romance and sex. They reexamine naturalized and commonplace narratives of sexual fulfillment that are taken for granted in most liberal and even in more radical queer politics. In the end, these films incisively critique definitions of romance and love by extending them beyond oversaturated normative connotations and into the less defined—potentially more public—terrains of collectivity, friendship, and even interspecies affinities, giving spectators glimpses into queer existential and political formations outside of a predominantly {LGBT} framework.}, pages = {27--63}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies}, shortjournal = {Camera Obscura}, author = {Francis, Marc}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-01-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{parent_co-occurrence_2018, title = {The Co-Occurrence of Asexuality and Self-Reported Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis and Sexual Trauma Within the Past 12 Months Among U.S. College Students}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1171-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-018-1171-1}, abstract = {An increasing number of individuals identify as asexual. It is important to understand the relationship between a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or a history of sexual trauma co-occurs with asexual identity. We aimed to assess whether identification as asexual was associated with greater likelihood for self-reported {PTSD} diagnosis and history of sexual trauma within the past 12 months. Secondary data analysis was undertaken of a cross-sectional survey of 33,385 U.S. college students (12,148 male, 21,237 female), including 228 self-identified asexual individuals (31 male, 197 female), who completed the 2015–2016 Healthy Minds Study. Measures included assessment of self-report of prior professional diagnosis of {PTSD} and self-report of prior sexual trauma in the past year. Among non-asexual participants, 1.9\% self-reported a diagnosis of {PTSD} and 2.4\% reported a history of sexual trauma in the past 12 months. Among the group identified as asexual, 6.6\% self-reported a diagnosis of {PTSD} and 3.5\% reported a history of sexual assault in the past 12 months. Individuals who identified as asexual were more likely to report a diagnosis of {PTSD} ({OR} 4.44; 95\% {CI} 2.32, 8.50) and sexual trauma within the past 12 months ({OR} 2.52; 95\% {CI} 1.20, 5.27), compared to non-asexual individuals. These differences persisted after including sex of the participants in the model, and the interaction between asexual identification and sex was not significant in either case. Asexual identity was associated with greater likelihood of reported {PTSD} diagnosis and reported sexual trauma within the past 12 months. Implications for future research on asexuality are discussed.}, pages = {1--6}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Parent, Mike C. and Ferriter, Kevin P.}, urldate = {2018-03-16}, date = {2018-02-20}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{bogaert_demography_2013, title = {The Demography of Asexuality}, rights = {©2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.}, isbn = {978-94-007-5511-6 978-94-007-5512-3}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-5512-3_15}, series = {International Handbooks of Population}, abstract = {Asexuality has begun to receive both academic (e.g., Bogaert 2004, 2006a, 2008; Prause and Graham 2007; Brotto et al. 2010; Poston and Baumle 2010) and public (e.g., New Scientist; Pagán Westfall 2004) attention. Why does the study of asexuality matter, aside from the scientific and public curiosity about a sexual minority that has been overlooked until recently? A person’s sexuality, particularly as basic as whether he or she is asexual or not, may play a profound role in their social circumstances and life choices, including whether they marry or not, whether they have children or not, and their mental and physical health (e.g., atypical hormonal profile; lower {STI} risk, etc.). Thus, the study of asexuality is relevant to a number of demographic issues such as health, marriage, and fertility.}, pages = {275--288}, number = {5}, booktitle = {International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality}, publisher = {Springer Netherlands}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, editor = {Baumle, Amanda K.}, urldate = {2017-01-22}, date = {2013}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-5512-3_15}, } @article{greaves_diversity_2016, title = {The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0857-5}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0857-5}, abstract = {In this study, we asked participants to “describe their sexual orientation” in an open-ended measure of self-generated sexual orientation. The question was included as part of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 18,261) 2013/2014 wave, a national probability survey conducted shortly after the first legal same-sex marriages in New Zealand. We present a two-level classification scheme to address questions about the prevalence of, and demographic differences between, sexual orientations. At the most detailed level of the coding scheme, 49 unique categories were generated by participant responses. Of those who responded with the following, significantly more were women: bisexual (2.1 \% of women, compared to 1.5 \% of men), bicurious (0.7 \% of women, 0.4 \% of men), and asexual (0.4 \% of women and less than 0.1 \% of men). However, significantly fewer women than men reported being lesbian or gay (1.8 \% of women, compared to 3.5 \% of men). Those openly identifying as bicurious, bisexual, or lesbian/gay were significantly younger than those with a heterosexual orientation. This study shows diversity in the terms used in self-generated sexual orientations, and provides up-to-date gender, age, and prevalence estimates for the New Zealand population. Finally, results reveal that a substantial minority of participants may not have understood the question about sexual orientation.}, pages = {1--12}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Greaves, Lara M. and Barlow, Fiona Kate and Lee, Carol H. J. and Matika, Correna M. and Wang, Weiyu and Lindsay, Cinnamon-Jo and Case, Claudia J. B. and Sengupta, Nikhil K. and Huang, Yanshu and Cowie, Lucy J. and Stronge, Samantha and Storey, Mary and Souza, Lucy De and Manuela, Sam and Hammond, Matthew D. and Milojev, Petar and Townrow, Carly S. and Muriwai, Emerald and Satherley, Nicole and Fraser, Gloria and West-Newman, Tim and Houkamau, Carla and Bulbulia, Joseph and Osborne, Danny and Wilson, Marc S. and Sibley, Chris G.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-09-29}, langid = {english}, } @article{brotto_dsm_2010, title = {The {DSM} Diagnostic Criteria for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Men}, volume = {7}, issn = {1743-6109}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01860.x/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01860.x}, abstract = {Introduction.  Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder ({HSDD}) is one of two sexual desire disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ({DSM}) and is defined by two criteria: A—“persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity” and B—“marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.” Aim.  This paper reviews the prevalence and correlates of low desire in men and qualitative and quantitative research on the experience of sexual desire in men and women. Methods.  A literature search of Medline, {PudMed}, and {PsychInfo} was used to identify any publication on low desire in men. Main Outcome Measure.  The strength of empirical findings was used as a basis for making proposed revisions to the diagnostic criteria for {HSDD} in men. Results.  The dilemma of whether desire and arousal can be reliably differentiated in men is discussed, and parallels to the literature in women are drawn. Finally, I consider three options for the diagnosis of low desire in men for {DSM}-5. Option 1 proposes that the {DSM}-{IV}-{TR} name and criteria are preserved for men in {DSM}-5. Option 2 proposes that the recently proposed criteria for Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder in women are also adopted for men, which would result in one gender-neutral category. Option 3 proposes that the criteria for Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder also be applied to men, with a minor modification to one criterion (i.e., that absent or reduced genital and/or nongenital physical changes not be included as a criterion); this diagnosis would then be applied only to men. Conclusions.  The evidence supporting each of these proposals is presented and critiqued. It is concluded that the proposal for {DSM}-5 should be made on the basis of field testing of new criteria. Brotto {LA}. The {DSM} diagnostic criteria for hypoactive sexual desire disorder in men. J Sex Med 2010;7:2015–2030.}, pages = {2015--2030}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {The Journal of Sexual Medicine}, author = {Brotto, Lori A.}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2010-06-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{brotto_dsm_2010-1, title = {The {DSM} Diagnostic Criteria for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Women}, volume = {39}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-009-9543-1}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-009-9543-1}, abstract = {Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder ({HSDD}) is one of two sexual desire disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ({DSM}) and is defined by the monosymptomatic criterion “persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity” that causes “marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.” This article reviews the diagnosis of {HSDD} in prior and current ({DSM}-{IV}-{TR}) editions of the {DSM}, critiques the existing criteria, and proposes criteria for consideration in {DSM}-V. Problems in coming to a clear operational definition of desire, the fact that sexual activity often occurs in the absence of desire for women, conceptual issues in understanding untriggered versus responsive desire, the relative infrequency of unprovoked sexual fantasies in women, and the significant overlap between desire and arousal are reviewed and highlight the need for revised {DSM} criteria for {HSDD} that accurately reflect women’s experiences. The article concludes with the recommendation that desire and arousal be combined into one disorder with polythetic criteria.}, pages = {221--239}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Brotto, Lori A.}, urldate = {2017-02-06}, date = {2010-04-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{yoshino_epistemic_2000, title = {The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure}, volume = {52}, issn = {0038-9765}, url = {http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4384/}, doi = {10.2307/1229482}, abstract = {In this article, Professor Kenji Yoshino seeks to explain why the category of bisexuality has been erased in contemporary American political and legal discourse. He first argues that the invisibility of bisexuality relative to homosexuality does not reflect the incidences of those orientations in the population. Defining bisexuality as the possession of more than incidental desire for both sexes, Yoshino shows that the major sexuality studies demonstrate that the incidence of bisexuality is in fact greater than or comparable to the incidence of homosexuality. Yoshino explains the erasure of bisexuality by positing that both self-identified heterosexuals and self-identified homosexuals have overlapping interests in the erasure of bisexuality that lead them into an "epistemic contract" of bisexual erasure. These interests include: (1) the stabilization of exclusive sexual orientation categories; (2) the retention of sex as an important diacritical axis; and (3) the protection of norms of monogamy. Noting that such contracts tend to become visible only when they are challenged, Yoshino describes how bisexuals have increasingly contested their own erasure. Finally, Yoshino examines the effects of bisexual invisibility and visibility in the legal realm, focusing on the sexual harassment jurisprudence of recent decades.}, pages = {353--461}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Stanford Law Review}, author = {Yoshino, Kenji}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2000}, } @thesis{hinderliter_evolution_2016, location = {Urbana, Illinois}, title = {The evolution of online asexual discourse}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2142/95433}, abstract = {Technological, social, and economic changes in recent decades have led to new possibilities for communication and for forming communities that are not tied to a specific geographical location. This creates new opportunities and challenges for studying language change, including the language of online communities. This dissertation provides such a case study by examining the development of, and changes in, online English language asexual discourse from the second half of the 1990s until late 2013, focusing on lexical items and multi-word expressions. This dissertation combines three major research approaches---archival research, corpus research, and survey research . Using the Way Back Machine, databases of newspaper archives, and academic databases and references, historical conceptualizations of asexuality can be seen well before the emergence of asexual communities online, but I can find no evidence of asexual organizing prior to the 1990s. Largely using qualitative analysis of asexual websites, I give a historical account of the development of online asexual communities, and I argue that there have been at least two major conceptual shifts in the conceptualization of asexuality in the time period under consideration, which I call the "{AVEN} shift" and the "rise of intermediate categories." I then discuss the construction of four corpora: I scrapped the largest asexual website (Asexual Visibility and Education Network [{AVEN}]) and a similar sized message board on a different topic as a control (Non-asexual corpus). I subdivided the {AVEN} data into two sub-corpora, based on the sub-forum topics. Most subforums are in the {AVEN}-core corpus. Some (e.g. "Just For Fun" or "Off-A") are mostly about topics other than asexuality, and were grouped as the {AVEN}-other Corpus. In addition, I scraped several asexual blogs and asexual communities other than {AVEN} (e.g. a {LiveJournal} community): these comprise the Asexual-other corpus. Using a multinomial Naive Bayes classifier, I found moderate distinguishability between the {AVEN}-main and non-asexual corpura at the level of individual posts when only considering individual words. To rule out the possibility that the classifier was distinguishing {AVEN} vs. non-{AVEN} discourse, I first created an algorithm to remove from consideration words that probably refer to users. Second, I used the same classifier on the {AVEN}-other corpora and the asexual-other corpora. Results for the asexual-other corpus are similar to results for the {AVEN}-main corpus, while results for the {AVEN}-other corpus are not. This suggests that the classifier is identifying asexual discourse vs. other discourse. I used the {AVEN}-core Corpus to generate a list of "key-words" that well-characterize asexual discourse, and then investigate the evolution of three sets of these: intermediate category terms, romantic orientation terms, and the terms repulsed and indifferent. Results provide strong support for the "rise of intermediate categories" hypothesis, and also provide evidence of terminological change for the other two domains. To test the "{AVEN} shift" hypothesis, I conducted an online survey in Early 2012 about people's self-understanding prior to and after finding an online asexual community. Results provide evidence for all predictions of the "{AVEN} shift" hypothesis, although the changes were by no means monolithic. Through this research, I illustrate the utility of applying methodologies from corpus linguistics and from machine learning for investigating the language of specific online communities. Further, I provide novel methodologies (or novel uses of existing methodologies) for problems likely to be faced by other researchers using corpus linguistics to study online language change in specific (sub)communities.}, pagetotal = {178}, institution = {University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign}, type = {phdthesis}, author = {Hinderliter, Andrew C.}, date = {2016-12-02}, langid = {english}, } @article{bolam_language_2016, title = {The Language of Non-normative Sexuality and Genders}, url = {http://cedar.wwu.edu/scholwk/2016/Day_one/30}, journaltitle = {Scholars Week}, author = {Bolam, Emily and Jarvis, Samantha}, date = {2016-05-19}, } @article{rothblum_lives_2019, title = {The lives of asexual individuals outside of sexual and romantic relationships: education, occupation, religion and community}, volume = {10}, url = {https://www.dropbox.com/s/nazs74g9b2gcqyy/Lives%20of%20asexual%20individuals%20outside%20of%20sexual%20and%20romantic%20relationships.pdf}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2018.1552186}, shorttitle = {The lives of asexual individuals outside of sexual and romantic relationships}, abstract = {Twenty-seven U.S. and Canadian participants who answered a call for interviews about asexual identity were asked about non-sexual aspects of their lives, including education, occupation, community and religion. Many participants indicated that being asexual was not a factor in school or college. Others mentioned advantages such as having more time for studies and fewer distractions, and disadvantages such as feeling lonely, left out or anxious. For some participants, asexuality was not an issue in the work setting, often because it is not visible or not asked about. Others worked in settings with supportive co-workers, had more time for work or were not distracted by office romances. Half the participants were part of thriving social networks, although about one-third indicated that their community was very small and many were introverts. Three-quarters of the sample identified as atheists or followed spiritual traditions that were not directly associated with mainstream religions. They also brought up the lack of asexual role models in the media. Participants reflected on how asexual identity interfaced with societal roles and the results are discussed in light of the foregrounding of sex and relationships in North America.}, pages = {83--93}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Rothblum, Esther D. and Heimann, Kyra and Carpenter, Kylie}, date = {2019}, langid = {english}, } @article{berkey_multidimensional_1990, title = {The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality}, volume = {19}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J082v19n04_05}, abstract = {Research on the assessment of sexual orientation has been limited, and what does exist is often conflicting and confusing. This is largely due to the lack of any agreed upon definition of bisexuality. The Multidimensional Scare of Sexuality ({MSS}) was developed to validate and to contrast six proposed categories of bisexuality, as well as categories related to heterosexuality, homosexuality, and asexuality. This instrument includes ratings of the behavioral and cognitive/affective components of sexuality. The {MSS} was completed by 148 subjects, the majority of whom were from identified homosexual and bisexual populations. Although subjects' self-descriptions on the {MSS} were consistent with their self-descriptions on the Kinsey Heterosexual-Homosexual Scale, the {MSS} provided a more varied description of sexual orientation. Subject's self-described sexual orientation on the {MSS} was more consistent with their cognitive/affective ratings than with their behavioral ratings. With the exception of self-described heterosexuals, the frequency of cognitive/affective sexuality was greater than that of behavioral sexuality.}, pages = {67--88}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Journal of Homosexuality}, author = {Berkey, Braden Robert and Perelman-Hall, Terri and Kurdek, Lawrence A.}, date = {1990}, } @article{kaur_online_2017, title = {The Online Eunuch as a '{CyborgianTrans}’ Figuration: De-stabilising Gendered Meanings and Subjectivities}, volume = {54}, abstract = {Like the materially bounded body, the representation and reproduction of the online body is subject to ambiguities and multiplicities. Online discussion boards provide spaces that not only reinforce traditional norms and practices related to gender and sexuality but also provide spaces that highlight the transgressions of these traditional norms and practices. This paper aims to explore the ways in which the category of ‘eunuch’ is reimagined in multiple subjectivities in online interactions, specifically by examining how the body of a eunuch is constituted in online discussion boards. Importantly, the paper also proposes the analytical construct of the “{CyborgianTrans}” in order to reveal the multiplicities and ambiguities inherent in online self-representations of eunuch identities.}, pages = {18--35}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {{SARE}: Southeast Asian Review of English}, author = {Kaur, Surinderpal}, date = {2017}, } @article{price_ontology_2015, title = {The Ontology of Asexuality: A Genealogical Analysis of Invisibility}, url = {https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/fa00335d-2179-4fd9-b939-00d0b11b73e9/1/Price+2015.pdf}, shorttitle = {The Ontology of Asexuality}, author = {Price, Joshua}, urldate = {2017-01-10}, date = {2015}, } @article{alcaire_pathologisation_2015, title = {The pathologisation of sexual diversity - a critical scrutiny of the {DSM}}, issn = {0874-5560}, url = {https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2015.32.10}, doi = {10.22355/exaequo.2015.32.10}, shorttitle = {The pathologisation of sexual diversity}, abstract = {The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ({DSM}) is the standard reference for the classification of mental disorders. This article draws on contributions from different areas of expertise to discuss three classifications concerning sexual orientations and identities created within the {DSM} throughout decades. The aim of this paper is two-fold: 1) it will focus on the creation of psychiatric diagnoses for sexual practices, orientations and identities and 2) it will describe the resistance on the part of different groups whose behaviour is described within those terms. Three examples will be examined: homosexuality as a mental illness, trans* identity as ‘gender dysphoria’ and asexuality as ‘hypoactive sexual desire disorder’.}, pages = {155--167}, number = {32}, journaltitle = {Ex aequo}, author = {Alcaire, Rita}, urldate = {2017-05-12}, date = {2015}, } @article{hughes_presence_2011, title = {The Presence of Absence: Asexuality and the Creation of Resistance}, volume = {13}, url = {http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/31098280/gnovisFall2011Journal.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1485851721&Signature=XnIdoplZyH3R37Sk96zEIgYImPI%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DRe-_Imaging_and_Re-_Imagining_the_Coloni.pdf}, abstract = {This paper investigates the existence of asexuality or ace identity. The aim of the paper is twofold, to examine the emergence of a seemingly impossible identity and to consider the consequences of an asexual space in a sexual discourse. Since the term ‘asexual’ proves problematic in its dependence on the existence of sexuality, the first half of the paper attempts to renegotiate a definition of asexuality, focusing on the power of the term “ace”. I then explore the work of three exemplary authors, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Lillian Faderman, and Michael Foucault, who prove successful in constructing an alternative discourse to the dominant sexual regime. Using their work, I argue that not only does an asexual space help individuals articulate their existence; it also creates resistance against the dominant power regime. Outside of academia, I argue that technology takes the reins, as the Asexual Visibility and Education Network’s ({AVEN}) online presence continues to raise awareness and expand the asexual community.}, pages = {90--100}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Gnovis}, author = {Hughes, Lily}, date = {2011}, } @article{hughes_presence_2011-1, title = {The Presence of Absence: Asexuality and the Creation of Resistance}, volume = {12}, url = {http://www.gnovisjournal.org/2011/11/21/lily-hughes-journal/}, abstract = {This paper investigates the existence of asexuality or ace identity. The aim of the paper is twofold, to examine the emergence of a seemingly impossible identity and to consider the consequences of an asexual space in a sexual discourse. Since the term ‘asexual’ proves problematic in its dependence on the existence of sexuality, the first half of the paper attempts to renegotiate a definition of asexuality, focusing on the power of the term “ace”. I then explore the work of three exemplary authors, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Lillian Faderman, and Michael Foucault, who prove successful in constructing an alternative discourse to the dominant sexual regime. Using their work, I argue that not only does an asexual space help individuals articulate their existence; it also creates resistance against the dominant power regime. Outside of academia, I argue that technology takes the reins, as the Asexual Visibility and Education Network’s ({AVEN}) online presence continues to raise awareness and expand the asexual community.}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {gnovis}, author = {Hughes, Lily}, date = {2011}, } @article{cranney_temporal_2016, title = {The Temporal Stability of Lack of Sexual Attraction Across Young Adulthood}, volume = {45}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-015-0583-4}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-015-0583-4}, abstract = {There is a large and growing literature on the stability of sexual orientation across the lifespan. However, virtually no studies have been conducted on the longitudinal stability of any dimension of asexuality. Here I utilized Kinsey scale-type data from Wave {III} and Wave {IV} of the Add Health survey to measure the stability of indicating “not sexually attracted to either males or females” in a forced-choice, Kinsey-type scale and during the time participants were moving through early adulthood (18–26 years in Wave {III} and 24–32 years in Wave {IV}). I found that, for the most part, individuals who reported no sexual attraction in Wave {III} were not the same individuals who reported no sexual attraction in Wave {IV}, with only three out of the 25 in Wave {III} who indicated no sexual attraction going on to do the same in Wave {IV}. This inter-wave consistency was lower than it was for other sexual minorities. However, indicating no sexual attraction in one wave was still a statistically significant predictor of indicating no sexual attraction in the other wave, as was refusing to answer or indicating the “don’t know” option in the other wave. These findings do not necessarily denote change in sexual attraction across waves; the fact that not answering the question in one wave was a significant predictor of indicating no sexual attraction in the other wave provides quantitative evidence for the ambiguities involved in sexual identities when sexuality is taken for granted in the broader culture. This ambiguity affects the operationalization and quantification of asexuality.}, pages = {743--749}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Cranney, Stephen}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-04-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{adler_vicissitudes_2020, title = {The Vicissitudes Of Lack: Situating Asexuality Within Psychoanalysis}, url = {https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1219}, shorttitle = {The Vicissitudes Of Lack}, journaltitle = {Graduate College Dissertations and Theses}, author = {Adler, Nicholas}, date = {2020-01-01}, } @article{chasin_theoretical_2011, title = {Theoretical Issues in the Study of Asexuality}, volume = {40}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-011-9757-x}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-011-9757-x}, abstract = {Academic interest in asexual people is new and researchers are beginning to discuss how to proceed methodologically and conceptually with the study of asexuality. This article explores several of the theoretical issues related to the study of asexuality. Researchers have tended to treat asexuality either as a distinct sexual orientation or as a lack of sexual orientation. Difficulties arise when asexual participants are inconsistent in their self-identification as asexual. Distinguishing between sexual and romantic attraction resolves this confusion, while simultaneously calling into question conceptualizations of the asexual population as a single homogenous group. Arguments are considered in favor of exploring diversity within the asexual population, particularly with respect to gender and romantic orientation, proposing that the categorical constructs employed in (a)sexuality research be replaced with continuous ones. Furthermore, given the recently noted bias toward including only self-identified asexuals, as opposed to non-self-identified asexuals or “potential-asexuals,” in research about asexuality, the nature and meaning of asexual self-identification are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the theoretical importance of acknowledging asexual self-identification or lack thereof in future research into asexuality. This article discusses what these current theoretical issues mean for the study of asexuality and sexuality more generally, including a brief consideration of ethical implications for research with asexual participants. Finally, directions for future research are suggested.}, pages = {713--723}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Chasin, {CJ} {DeLuzio}}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2011-08-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{storms_theories_1980, title = {Theories of sexual orientation}, volume = {38}, rights = {(c) 2016 {APA}, all rights reserved}, issn = {1939-1315 0022-3514}, doi = {10.1037/0022-3514.38.5.783}, abstract = {Various theories assume that sexual orientation is related to sex role orientation or to erotic orientation. Hypotheses derived from these 2 assumptions were tested. Heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual undergraduates (185 Ss) were administered measures of their masculine and feminine attributes (determined by the Personal Attributes Questionnaire) and their erotic fantasies (measured by the Erotic Response and Orientation Scale). Results generally fail to support the hypotheses derived from sex role theories of sexual orientation; within each sex, homosexuals, heterosexuals, and bisexuals did not differ on measures of masculinity and femininity. Strong support was obtained for the hypothesis that sexual orientation relates primarily to erotic fantasy orientation. These latter results support a 2-dimensional model of sexual orientation in which homosexuality and heterosexuality are treated as separate, independent factors. (33 ref)}, pages = {783--792}, number = {5}, journaltitle = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology}, author = {Storms, Michael D.}, date = {1980}, } @article{watson_there_2020, title = {“There was Sex but no Sexuality*:” Critical Cataloging and the Classification of Asexuality in {LCSH}}, volume = {58}, issn = {0163-9374}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2020.1796876}, doi = {10.1080/01639374.2020.1796876}, shorttitle = {“There was Sex but no Sexuality*}, abstract = {This paper examines the addition of “asexuality” to the Library of Congress Subject Headings as a case study from which to examine the critical cataloging movement. Beginning with a review of some of the theoretical and practical issues around subject access for minoritized and marginalized sexualities, this paper then contextualizes, historicizes, and introduces the critical cataloging movement to the literature, situating it within a larger and longer history of radical cataloging. It will define critical cataloging as a social justice-oriented style of radical cataloging that places an emphasis on radical empathy, outreach work, and recognizes the importance of information maintenance and care. This paper introduces the concept of “catalogic warrant” to characterize the process of “reading” the catalog to examine the harm or benefit of terms on users and the wider library community.}, pages = {547--565}, number = {6}, journaltitle = {Cataloging \& Classification Quarterly}, author = {Watson, Brian M.}, urldate = {2020-09-11}, date = {2020-08-17}, note = {Publisher: Routledge \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2020.1796876}, keywords = {Asexuality, catalogers, critical cataloging, Library of Congress Subject Headings, radical cataloging, subject cataloging}, } @article{carrigan_theres_2011, title = {There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community}, volume = {14}, issn = {1363-4607}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460711406462}, doi = {10.1177/1363460711406462}, shorttitle = {There’s more to life than sex?}, abstract = {Asexuality is becoming ever more widely known and yet it has received relatively little attention from within sociology. Research in the area poses particular challenges because of the relatively recent emergence of the asexual community, as well as the expanding array of terms and concepts through which asexuals articulate their differences and affirm their commonalities. This article presents the initial findings of a mixed-methods research project, which involved semi-structured interviews, online questionnaires and a thematic analysis of online materials produced by members of the asexual community. The aim was to understand self-identified asexuals in their own terms so as to gain understanding of the lived experience of asexuals, as well as offering a subjectively adequate grounding for future research in the area.}, pages = {462--478}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Carrigan, Mark}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2011-08-01}, langid = {english}, } @article{carrigan_theres_2011-1, title = {There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community}, volume = {14}, issn = {1363-4607, 1461-7382}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460711406462}, doi = {10.1177/1363460711406462}, shorttitle = {There’s more to life than sex?}, abstract = {Asexuality is becoming ever more widely known and yet it has received relatively little attention from within sociology. Research in the area poses particular challenges because of the relatively recent emergence of the asexual community, as well as the expanding array of terms and concepts through which asexuals articulate their differences and affirm their commonalities. This article presents the initial findings of a mixedmethods research project, which involved semi-structured interviews, online questionnaires and a thematic analysis of online materials produced by members of the asexual community. The aim was to understand self-identified asexuals in their own terms so as to gain understanding of the lived experience of asexuals, as well as offering a subjectively adequate grounding for future research in the area.}, pages = {462--478}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Sexualities}, shortjournal = {Sexualities}, author = {Carrigan, Mark}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2011-08}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{sparks_this_2017, title = {“{THIS} {IS} A {CLOSED} {SPACE} {FOR} {QUEER}-{IDENTIFYING} {FOLX}”: Queer Spaces on Campus}, url = {https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=oberlin1494365911006662&disposition=inline}, pagetotal = {105}, institution = {Oberlin College}, type = {{GSFS} Honors Thesis}, author = {Sparks, Tori}, date = {2017}, } @article{bogaert_toward_2006, title = {Toward a conceptual understanding of asexuality}, volume = {10}, rights = {(c) 2016 {APA}, all rights reserved}, issn = {1939-1552 1089-2680}, doi = {10.1037/1089-2680.10.3.241}, abstract = {Asexuality has been the subject of recent academic (A. F. Bogaert, 2004) and public (e.g., New Scientist; {CNN}) discourse. This has raised questions about the conceptualization and definition of asexuality. Here the author reviews some of these issues, discusses asexuality from a sexual orientation point of view (i.e., as a lack of sexual attraction), and reviews the similarities and differences between this definition and related phenomena (e.g., hypoactive sexual desire disorder). Finally, the author concludes that the term asexuality should not necessarily be used to describe a pathological or health-compromised state.}, pages = {241--250}, number = {3}, journaltitle = {Review of General Psychology}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, date = {2006}, } @article{mora_montes_mejor_2020, title = {Una mejor comprensión de la sexualidad humana a través del estudio de la asexualidad}, volume = {40}, issn = {0211-5735}, url = {https://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0211-57352020000200007&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es}, doi = {10.4321/s0211-573520200020007}, abstract = {Asexuality has gained importance with the entrance of the present century. However, this phenomenon has been little studied. The investigations carried out to date confirm that the lack of “erotic attraction” towards one sex or the other is defining and imposes itself as the axis of all the asexual behaviors encompassed under the same name. Therefore, the present study focuses on defining precisely the concept of “sexual attraction”, which is different from affection, admiration, the so-called “romantic attraction”, and sexual excitement. On the other hand, there are frequent masturbatory and paraphilic behaviors in asexual people, and it is obvious that these behaviors respond to other factors not dependent on the “erotic attraction”, which leads us to maintain as evidence the existence of three fundamental constituent factors of the core of human sexuality: sexual attraction, excitement, and orgasm. Non-covariable factors, whose presence, joint or isolated, explains the different sexual behaviors of men and women.}, pages = {115--132}, number = {138}, journaltitle = {Revista de la Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría}, author = {Mora Montes, José María and Mora Encinas, María Paz}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2020-12}, } @article{collosa_sospecha_2020, title = {Una sospecha especular: pensar la asexualidad como disidencia}, volume = {4}, rights = {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ar/}, issn = {2422-6890}, url = {http://rephip.unr.edu.ar/xmlui/handle/2133/20512}, shorttitle = {Una sospecha especular}, abstract = {Casi la totalidad de los textos sobre y desde la asexualidad, además de aportar a su definición, suministran una cantidad significativa de datos estadísticos para su visibilización como diversidad. Esto es importante a la hora de producir un marco de referencia e identificación y generar políticas hacia los sistemas de educación y de salud, que contribuyan a la despatologización y colaboren en el impulso de saberes con respecto a las necesidades de las personas asexuales. Dicho esto, esa misma abundancia de datos estadísticos, encuestas, clasificaciones y subcategorías que describen a la asexualidad para visibilizarla, hegemonizan el conjunto de saberes que la hacen aparecer, y por ello nos encontramos ante una inmovilización al enunciarla únicamente a través de esos discursos. Como plantea Butler, “si queremos procurarnos protección legal y derechos es mejor que tengamos la capacidad de hablar ese lenguaje. Pero quizás cometemos un error cuando tomamos las definiciones de quiénes somos legalmente como descripciones fidedignas de lo que somos” (2006: 39). En este artículo se pretende generar cuestionamientos e interpelaciones desde la asexualidad como disidencia a la heteronorma androcentrista.}, pages = {18--25}, number = {4}, journaltitle = {Revista Uni(+di)versidad}, author = {Collosa, Lucas}, urldate = {2022-04-08}, date = {2020-12-01}, } @incollection{batricevic_uncovering_2016, title = {Uncovering an A: Asexuality and Asexual Activism in Croatia and Serbia}, rights = {©2016 The Author(s)}, isbn = {978-1-137-59030-5 978-1-137-59031-2}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-59031-2_4}, shorttitle = {Uncovering an A}, abstract = {This is one of the first empirical accounts of asexuality and asexuality-related activism in Serbia and Croatia. The authors argue that in contemporary hypersexualised societies, even the queer community can be discriminating against asexual people, often negating a possibility for them to engage in committed and meaningful personal relationships. By drawing upon interviews with asexually identified respondents and various other empirical sources, the authors underscore the potential of asexuality to represent a departure point of (a)sexual emancipation, in which sexual practices would not be understood as inherent dimensions of any identity. Asexuality may question the ways in which even politically radical struggles perpetuate sexuality as a necessity and one of the key features of humanity.}, pages = {77--103}, booktitle = {Intersectionality and {LGBT} Activist Politics}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan {UK}}, author = {Batričević, Milica and Cvetić, Andrej}, editor = {Bilić, Bojan and Kajinić, Sanja}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016}, langid = {english}, doi = {10.1057/978-1-137-59031-2_4}, } @article{steelman_underexplored_2016, title = {Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts}, volume = {27}, issn = {0897-5353}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08975353.2016.1169014}, doi = {10.1080/08975353.2016.1169014}, shorttitle = {Underexplored Identities}, abstract = {Asexuality is an identity held by individuals who have low to no sexual desire or drive which can often be mistaken for hypoactive sexual desire disorder. This article highlights the key diagnostic and clinical differences between hypoactive sexual desire disorder and asexuality. It provides key information about the various typologies of asexuality. We describe the 4 phases of treatment: joining, clarifying definitions, challenging beliefs, and assumptions of socially sanctioned behavior, and developing a common or agreed-upon definition of expression. A case vignette is included.}, pages = {85--98}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Journal of Family Psychotherapy}, author = {Steelman, Sarah M. and Hertlein, Katherine M.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-04-02}, } @article{bauer_understanding_nodate, title = {Understanding Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Asexual Samples: A Mixed-Methods Approach}, volume = {49}, issn = {0004-0002}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/41847131/Understanding_Alcohol_and_Tobacco_Consumption_in_Asexual_Samples_A_Mixed_Methods_Approach}, shorttitle = {Understanding Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Asexual Samples}, abstract = {Existing research suggests significant differences in alcohol and tobacco consumption trends according to one\&\#39;s sexual orientation. However, asexual people have not yet been included in these comparisons. In this mixed-methods, two-part study, we}, pages = {733}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, author = {Bauer, Caroline and Kaye, Sasha L. and Brotto, Lori A.}, urldate = {2020-08-07}, langid = {english}, } @article{jones_understanding_2017, title = {Understanding asexual identity as a means to facilitate culturally competent care: A systematic literature review}, volume = {26}, rights = {© 2017 John Wiley \& Sons Ltd}, issn = {1365-2702}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.13862}, doi = {10.1111/jocn.13862}, shorttitle = {Understanding asexual identity as a means to facilitate culturally competent care}, abstract = {Aims and objectives To provide a contemporary overview of asexuality and the implications this has for healthcare practice. Background Individuals belonging to sexual minority groups face many barriers in accessing appropriate health care. The term “sexual minority group” is usually used to refer to lesbian women, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Anecdotal and research evidence suggests that those who identify as asexual have similar poor experiences. Design Systematic review and qualitative analysis. Methods This work uses a systematic review and qualitative analysis of the existing interview data from self-identified asexuals, to construct features of the asexual identity. The findings will help practitioners and health professionals develop an understanding of this poorly understood construct. Ultimately this work is aimed at facilitating culturally competent care in the context of asexuality. Results Qualitative analysis produced three themes, which can be used, not only to frame asexuality in a positive and normalising way, but also to provide greater understanding of asexuality, “romantic differences coupled with sexual indifference,” “validation through engagement with asexual communities” and “a diversity of subasexual identities.” Conclusions Having some understanding of what it means to identify as asexual, and respecting the choices made by asexuals can markedly improve the experiences of those who embrace an asexual identity when engaging with health care. Relevance to clinical practice Anecdotal evidence, taken from one of the largest asexual online forums, suggests that a number of self-identified asexuals choose not to disclose their identity to healthcare professionals through fear of their asexual status being pathologised, problematised or judged. Given that asexuality is a poorly understood concept, this may be due to lack of understanding on behalf of healthcare providers. The review provides health professionals and practitioners working in clinical settings with some insights of the features of an asexual identity to facilitate culturally competent care.}, pages = {3811--3831}, number = {23}, journaltitle = {Journal of Clinical Nursing}, author = {Jones, Catriona and Hayter, Mark and Jomeen, Julie}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, keywords = {asexual identity, asexuality, health professionals, healthcare, sexual identity}, } @article{hiramori_understanding_2020, title = {Understanding Sexual Orientation Identity, Sexual/Romantic Attraction, and Sexual Behavior beyond Western Societies: The Case of Japan}, url = {https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ds8at/}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ds8at}, abstract = {As a growing amount of research examines the impact of sexuality on various demographic outcomes, it becomes important to understand the complex intersections of sexual orientation identity, sexual/romantic attraction, and sexual behavior. However, most previous studies use data from Western countries that have particular histories of sexuality, limiting the generalizability of the findings beyond Western societies. We describe dimensions of sexuality in Japan, where there has not been any religious authority condemning same-sex behavior and any law prohibiting same-sex relations except for a decade in the late 19th century. We use data from the “Survey on Diversity of Work and Life, and Coexistence among the Residents of Osaka City,” the first population-based survey with detailed questions about multiple aspects of sexuality in Japan, to conduct descriptive analysis. More women identify as bisexual or asexual than lesbian. Among the respondents who selected “Don’t want to decide, haven’t decided”—a category originally created for queer/questioning respondents—as their sexual orientation, the proportion of those who indicated exclusive heterosexuality is higher than expected, raising the possibility that some heterosexual respondents with no heterosexual identity may have mistakenly chosen this category. The data suggest that the population of heterosexual-identified men who have sex with men is small. The prevalence of the asexual population differs by whether sexual orientation identity or sexual/romantic attraction is used to capture this population. Our analysis extends the demography of sexuality by examining unique non-Western data and putting in context the previous findings observed in Western countries.}, journaltitle = {{SocArXiv}}, author = {Hiramori, Daiki and Kamano, Saori}, date = {2020-03-13}, langid = {english}, } @book{bogaert_understanding-asexuality_2012, title = {Understanding-Asexuality}, url = {https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442201019}, abstract = {In a world where people often feel compelled to advertise their sexual inclinations and preferences, many people identify as asexual, lacking sexual attraction to either men or women. This book...}, publisher = {Rowman \& Littlefield}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, urldate = {2017-01-22}, date = {2012-08}, } @article{vance_unwilling_2018, title = {Unwilling Consumers: A Historical Materialist Conception of Compulsory Sexuality}, volume = {12}, issn = {1911-4788}, url = {https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1537}, doi = {10.26522/ssj.v12i1.1537}, shorttitle = {Unwilling Consumers}, abstract = {This paper seeks to expand the work of Marxist-feminist scholars Rosemary Hennessy and Nancy Fraser by placing it into conversation with the emerging work of scholars of asexuality and asexual identity. In resisting the tendency to reify the identity category of “asexual” as a newly emerging and dialogically structured identity which stands in opposition to the “allosexual,” this paper will rather attempt to determine its nature as a historically structured and contingent emergence of a particular moment in neoliberal capitalism. From this, it will argue that there need not be a tension between the notions of “compulsory sexuality” and “sexusociety” developed by scholars such as Elizabeth Emens and Ela Przybylo. It will be demonstrated that asexuality can be used as a positional tool in order to illuminate the totality of sexuality as a reified and commodified entity under late capitalism, one which is useful for understanding and resisting the capitalist historical (re)organization of human potentials for sensation and affect.}, pages = {133--151}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Studies in Social Justice}, author = {Vance, Carter}, date = {2018}, } @article{vance_unwilling_2018-1, title = {Unwilling Consumers: A Historical Materialist Conception of Compulsory Sexuality {\textbar} Studies in Social Justice}, volume = {12}, url = {https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1537}, shorttitle = {Unwilling Consumers}, abstract = {This paper seeks to expand the work of Marxist-feminist scholars Rosemary Hennessy and Nancy Fraser by placing it into conversation with the emerging work of scholars of asexuality and asexual identity. In resisting the tendency to reify the identity category of “asexual” as a newly emerging and dialogically structured identity which stands in opposition to the “allosexual,” this paper will rather attempt to determine its nature as a historically structured and contingent emergence of a particular moment in neoliberal capitalism. From this, it will argue that there need not be a tension between the notions of “compulsory sexuality” and “sexusociety” developed by scholars such as Elizabeth Emens and Ela Przybylo. It will be demonstrated that asexuality can be used as a positional tool in order to illuminate the totality of sexuality as a reified and commodified entity under late capitalism, one which is useful for understanding and resisting the capitalist historical (re)organization of human potentials for sensation and affect.}, pages = {133--151}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Global Movement Assemblages}, author = {Vance, Carter}, urldate = {2019-02-05}, date = {2018-07-13}, langid = {american}, } @online{white_viewer_2020, title = {Viewer perceptions of and attitudes towards asexuality in response to entertainment media representation}, url = {http://essay.utwente.nl/81836/}, abstract = {With the popularity of {LGBTQIA}+ representation in media rising, it is important to understand the relation to viewers’ attitudes, especially for underrepresented sexual minorities such as asexuality. A mixed method approach was employed, with 108 participants split into two conditions completing the Attitudes Towards Asexuals ({ATA}) Scale before and after viewing a clip from entertainment media. Open questions were also asked: how the clip made them feel, their opinion of the character, and their definition of asexuality. Thematic content analysis, and an analysis of the tone and emotions in the open responses supplemented the quantitative data. The results indicate significant differences between the attitudes of {LGBT} compared to non-{LGBT} respondents, religious groups, and those with more compared to less familiarity with asexuality. The qualitative findings underline the importance of nuanced characters with whom diverse viewers can empathise. Overall, the insight from this research can inform and guide the development of asexual characters in entertainment media so that viewer’s attitudes towards asexuality are positive. Complementary to this, future research should seek to clarify which impact different variations of an asexual representation have on viewers’ attitudes, and whether the influence on a range of demographic groups is dependent on specific features.}, type = {info:eu-repo/semantics/{bachelorThesis}}, author = {White, C. I.}, urldate = {2020-09-30}, date = {2020-07-01}, langid = {english}, note = {Publisher: University of Twente}, } @thesis{szuba_were_2018, location = {Utrecht, Netherlands}, title = {We’re Here, We’re Queer… Or Are We? Queerness, Asexuality, and Communicative Capitalism on Tumblr}, rights = {Open Access (free)}, url = {http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/369147}, shorttitle = {We’re Here, We’re Queer… Or Are We?}, abstract = {In recent years there has been an explosion of {LGBT} communities online, Tumblr being one of the most popular social media sites among {LGBT} youth. The following thesis explores {LGBT} discussions on Tumblr concerning the terms “queer” and “asexuals”. My main question is why these discussions create such a negative and hateful environment. I write through the theoretical lens of communicative capitalism, a concept that describes the way communicative technologies are used for profit through capitalist and neoliberal means. I relate my topic to gender performativity, queer theory, and theory around slurs and their reclamation. I find that there are three main ways that contribute to communicative capitalism in this context: creating an increasing flow of information, disabling proper communication, and attempting to stop the discussions. There are aporias within the neoliberal view on technology, as well as within the terms I am focusing on, that create an ideal environment for communicative capitalism.}, pagetotal = {46}, institution = {Universiteit Utrecht}, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Szuba, Marcelina}, urldate = {2019-02-05}, date = {2018}, langid = {english}, } @thesis{woodruff_wellness_2019, title = {Wellness in Asexual-Identified Individuals: The Impact of Social Support and Microaggressions}, url = {https://search.proquest.com/openview/9801ba9bc740364c9408fb4fcca3d21d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y}, institution = {Northern Illinois University}, type = {Doctoral Thesis}, author = {Woodruff, Elisa Marie}, date = {2019}, langid = {english}, } @article{scherrer_what_2010, title = {What Asexuality Contributes to the Same-Sex Marriage Discussion}, volume = {22}, issn = {1053-8720}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538720903332255}, doi = {10.1080/10538720903332255}, abstract = {While same-sex marriage debates have captured public attention, it is but one component of a broader discussion regarding the role of marriage in a changing society. To inform this discussion, I draw on qualitative, Internet survey data from 102 self-identified asexual individuals. I find that asexual relationships are complicated and nuanced in ways that have implications for a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer ({LGBTQ}) political agenda, including same-sex marriage recognition. In addition, findings indicate that assumptions of sex and sexuality in relationships are problematic and that present language for describing relationships is limiting. Findings suggest a social justice agenda for marginalized sexualities should be broader in scope than same-sex marriage.}, pages = {56--73}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Journal of Gay \& Lesbian Social Services}, author = {Scherrer, Kristin S.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2010-01-29}, pmid = {20596244}, } @article{bogaert_what_2016, title = {What Asexuality Tells Us About Sexuality}, issn = {0004-0002, 1573-2800}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0892-2}, doi = {10.1007/s10508-016-0892-2}, pages = {1--2}, journaltitle = {Archives of Sexual Behavior}, shortjournal = {Arch Sex Behav}, author = {Bogaert, Anthony F.}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2016-11-10}, langid = {english}, } @article{gupta_what_2017, title = {What Does Asexuality Teach Us About Sexual Disinterest? Recommendations for Health Professionals Based on a Qualitative Study With Asexually Identified People}, volume = {43}, issn = {0092-623X}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2015.1113593}, doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2015.1113593}, shorttitle = {What Does Asexuality Teach Us About Sexual Disinterest?}, abstract = {This article draws on qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 asexually identified individuals living in the United States in order to contribute to our understanding of when low sexual desire should be treated as a medical or mental health issue and when it should be treated as a benign sexual variation. The article discusses five findings of relevance to health professionals: (1) the line between a desire disorder and asexuality is not clear-cut; (2) asexually identified individuals may experience distress, so distress alone does not separate a desire disorder from asexuality; (3) asexually identified individuals may face sexual pressure from a partner or may have difficulty negotiating sexual activity with a partner; (4) asexuality does not need to be distressing, rather it can be experienced as a fulfilling form of sexuality; and (5) many asexually identified individuals believe in the usefulness of low sexual desire as a diagnostic category and support medical and mental health professionals in their efforts to develop treatments for sexual desire disorders. Based on these five findings, this article offers four concrete suggestions for health professionals working with clients with low sexual desire, whether or not those clients identify as asexual.}, pages = {1--14}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy}, author = {Gupta, Kristina}, urldate = {2017-02-01}, date = {2017-01-02}, pmid = {26643598}, } @article{diamond_what_2003, title = {What does sexual orientation orient? A biobehavioral model distinguishing romantic love and sexual desire}, volume = {110}, rights = {(c) 2016 {APA}, all rights reserved}, issn = {1939-1471 0033-295X}, doi = {10.1037/0033-295X.110.1.173}, shorttitle = {What does sexual orientation orient?}, abstract = {Although it is typically presumed that heterosexual individuals only fall in love with other-gender partners and gay-lesbian individuals only fall in love with same-gender partners, this is not always so. The author develops a biobehavioral model of love and desire to explain why. The model specifies that (a) the evolved processes underlying sexual desire and affectional bonding are functionally independent; (b) the processes underlying affectional bonding are not intrinsically oriented toward other-gender or same-gender partners; (c) the biobehavioral links between love and desire are bidirectional, particularly among women. These claims are supported by social-psychological, historical, and cross-cultural research on human love and sexuality as well as by evidence regarding the evolved biobehavioral mechanisms underlying mammalian mating and social bonding.}, pages = {173--192}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Psychological Review}, author = {Diamond, Lisa M.}, date = {2003}, } @article{borresen_what_nodate, title = {What It Means To Be 'Aromantic,' According To Aromantic People}, pages = {17}, author = {Borresen, Kelsey}, langid = {english}, } @article{renninger_where_2015, title = {“Where I can be myself … where I can speak my mind” : Networked counterpublics in a polymedia environment}, volume = {17}, issn = {1461-4448, 1461-7315}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444814530095}, doi = {10.1177/1461444814530095}, shorttitle = {“Where I can be myself … where I can speak my mind”}, abstract = {This article takes note of affordances for counterpublic communication on social networking sites ({SNSs}). Because of the important ways that counterpublic communication is tied to specific platforms, it is necessary to understand why certain platforms are especially conducive (or are seen to be conducive) to counterpublic address. This article uses the example of the asexual community’s use of the {SNS} Tumblr to explore the affordances of the Tumblr platform for counterpublic communication, comparing Tumblr to the bulletin boards on the popular Asexuality Visibility Education Network website. This article modifies and extends boyd’s analysis of {SNSs} as networked publics to account for the technological affordances for networked counterpublics. It ends by briefly considering ways that networked counterpublics can be antagonized.}, pages = {1513--1529}, number = {9}, journaltitle = {New Media \& Society}, shortjournal = {New Media \& Society}, author = {Renninger, Bryce J}, urldate = {2020-07-20}, date = {2015-10}, langid = {english}, } @article{aicken_who_2013, title = {Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys}, volume = {4}, issn = {1941-9899}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.774161}, doi = {10.1080/19419899.2013.774161}, shorttitle = {Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain?}, abstract = {There is little evidence about the prevalence of absence of sexual attraction, or the characteristics of people reporting this, often labelled asexuals. We examine this using data from two probability surveys of the British general population, conducted in 1990–1991 and 2000–2001. Interviewers administered face-to-face and self-completion questionnaires to people aged 16–44 years (N = 13,765 in 1990–1991; N = 12,110 in 2000–2001). The proportion that had never experienced sexual attraction was 0.4\% (95\% {CI}: 0.3–0.5\%) in 2000–2001, with no significant variation by gender or age, versus 0.9\% (95\% {CI}: 0.7–1.1\%) in 1990–1991; p {\textless} 0.0001. Among these 79 respondents in 2000–2001, 28 (40.3\% men; 33.9\% women) had had sex, 19 (33.5\% men; 20.9\% women) had child(ren), and 17 (30.1\% men; 19.2\% women) were married. Three-quarters of asexual men and two-thirds of asexual women considered their frequency of sex ‘about right’, while 24.7\% and 19.4\%, respectively, ‘always enjoyed having sex’. As well as providing evidence on the distribution of asexuality in Britain, our data suggest that it cannot be assumed that those reporting no sexual attraction are sexually inexperienced or without intimate relationships. We recognise the possibility of social desirability bias given our reliance on self-reported data, but suggest that its effect is not easily predicted regarding absence of sexual attraction.}, pages = {121--135}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Psychology \& Sexuality}, author = {Aicken, Catherine R. H. and Mercer, Catherine H. and Cassell, Jackie A.}, urldate = {2017-01-31}, date = {2013-05-01}, } @article{witsenburg_you_2017, title = {“You Freud, Me Jane?” The Representation of Trauma and Asexuality in Hitchcock’s Marnie}, volume = {2}, url = {http://www.digressions.nl/wp-content/uploads/Volume-2-Issue-2-Complete.pdf#page=4}, abstract = {The title character of Hitchcock’s film Marnie (1964) has previously been interpreted as a repressed heterosexual or a closeted lesbian. However, as this paper will argue, it is more logical to read her as asexual. Interpreting her character as such, it becomes clear that the film presents a discursive framework based on compulsory sexuality. Most notably, Marnie’s lack of interest in sex is seen as a symptom of a childhood trauma, rather than as a sexual orientation in itself. This paper will therefore explore how the film links asexuality to trauma by means of the concept of repression, and thus deconstruct compulsory sexuality as the film presents it.}, pages = {1--13}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Digresssions: Amsterdam Journal of Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, and Creative Writing}, author = {Witsenburg, Amber}, urldate = {2017-08-08}, date = {2017}, } @report{byron_you_2017, location = {Abbotsford Vic.}, title = {‘You learn from each other’: {LGBTIQ} Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the {RAD} Australia Online Directory}, url = {http://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A38815/}, shorttitle = {‘You learn from each other’}, abstract = {The ‘You learn from each other’ report gives an overview of the {LGBTIQ} Help-Seeking {ETool} project (2015-2016), funded by the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre and conducted as a collaboration between the partner organisations of Twenty10 incorporating {GLCS} {NSW}, The Freedom Centre, Curtin University and Western Sydney University. {LGBTIQ}1 young people are subject to a range of socio-cultural inequities that impact on their health and wellbeing and are particularly at a higher risk of facing mental health issues. Further to this, homophobia, transphobia, (non)disclosure of gender and sexuality identities, and fears of not being understood and/or being judged can prevent {LGBTIQ} young people from seeking mental health support. ‘You learn from each other’ reports on our research findings on the experiences of {LGBTIQ} young people seeking mental health support, and how technology can promote mental health and reduce barriers for help-seeking. Our project aims to empower Australian {LGBTIQ} young people to access mental health support, and to assist service providers and mental health professionals in providing optimal care and support to {LGBTIQ} young people through the use of technology. The project culminated in the development of the e-tool prototype, {RAD} Australia – a user-driven online directory to support both {LGBTIQ} young people’s mental health wellbeing, and the referral processes of health and community workers.}, pages = {60}, institution = {Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre}, type = {Research report}, author = {Byron, Paul and Rasmussen, Sophia and Wright Toussaint, Dani and Lobo, Roanna and Robinson, Kerry H. and Paradise, Brett}, urldate = {2017-03-18}, date = {2017}, langid = {english}, } @incollection{ikeda__2019, location = {Tokyo}, title = {ケーキがあるのになんでセックスなんかするの？ーー「アセクシュアルと法」を考えるために (Keeki ga aru noni nande sekkusu nanka suru no? -- asekusharu to hou wo kangaeru tame ni)}, isbn = {978-4-535-52426-2}, url = {https://www.nippyo.co.jp/shop/book/8059.html}, booktitle = {クィアと法――性規範の解放／開放のために (Queer and Law)}, publisher = {日本評論社 (Nippon Hyoronsha)}, author = {Ikeda, Hirono (池田弘乃)}, date = {2019-06}, langid = {japanese}, } @article{someya_--asexual_2004, title = {女ふたりという関係--『子供の時間』にみる「ロマンティックでasexualな関係性」試論 (Onnafutari to iu kankei kodomo no jikan ni miru romantikku de asexual na kankeisei shiron)}, issn = {0389-5203}, pages = {1--19}, number = {25}, journaltitle = {女性学年報}, author = {Someya, Yasuyo (染谷泰代)}, date = {2004}, langid = {japanese}, } @article{kakinuma__2011, title = {性的マイノリティにおける無性（Aセクシャル）の概念の可能性――Aセクシャル論文のレビュー (Seiteki mainoriti ni okeru musei Asekusharu no gainen no kanosei Asekusharu ronbun no rebyu)}, volume = {11}, issn = {1346-1478}, pages = {21--25}, number = {86}, journaltitle = {聖マリアンナ医学研究誌}, author = {Kakinuma, Kenji (柿沼賢治) and Fusegi, Makoto (布施木誠)}, date = {2011}, langid = {japanese}, }