Artifacts
All artifacts
“A Lack of Sexual Desire Emerges as a Contemporary Condition”
A newspaper article on the emergence of asexuality as a new phenomenon
Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law
A feminist work which first coined the term “amatonormativity”
“Aro Throwback Hour”
A compilation of links on aromantic discourse from the years 2010-2013
“Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation”
An article on trans liberation which mentions asexuality
“SexualLaw Reporter,” The Conspiracy
An introduction to a newsletter about legal issues relevant to queer people, including asexuals
“A/romanticism”
The terms “queerplatonic” and “zucchini” are coined in the comments of a blog post on aromanticism
Psychopathia Sexualis
The first use of the term “anesthesia sexual” to refer to asexual people
Ain’t I a Woman?, vol. 1, no. 8
A reader mentions asexual women in a submission about oppression in queer relationships
“The Classification and Labeling of Nonhomosexual Gender Dysphorias”
A paper in which the author attempts to categorize transgender people by their sexual orientation, including asexuals
“Sexual Orientation and Self-Perception”
A study that reimagines the Kinsey Scale as a two-dimensional spectrum that accounts for asexuality
“Nonsexuality Rant”
A blog post from the eaarly web where the author complains about people invalidating their asexuality
“*Afraid to Ask”
A satirical reader submission criticizing sex in the media, responding to an article on asexuality
Sexualpathologie
An early example of pathologization of asexual people in medical literature and use of the term “asexual”
“In pursuit of high-concept movies”
A newspaper article which describes a film as being about two asexual characters
“Eunuch Lib: No More Sex!”, Berkeley Barb
An article in the newspaper Berkeley Barb which posits that young people are choosing to be asexual