1970
Artifacts from the 1970s
“Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups”
One of the first academic papers on asexuality
Asexual Research Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of academic research on asexuality
“A Lack of Sexual Desire Emerges as a Contemporary Condition”
A newspaper article on the emergence of asexuality as a new phenomenon
“Asexual Chic: Everybody’s Not Doing It”
A newspaper story in which various self-professed asexual people are interviewed
“Eunuch Lib: No More Sex!”, Berkeley Barb
An article in the newspaper Berkeley Barb which posits that young people are choosing to be asexual
“Is Falling In Love a Health Hazard?”
A 1978 article from The Australian Women’s Weekly, reporting on Dorothy Tennov’s research into limerence and non-limerence.
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report The Briggs Initiative
A talk show conversation about the legislation surrounding gay schoolteachers, which mentions asexuality
“Atypical sexualities face oppression”
A newspaper article in which a sex therapist expresses concern about celibates being labelled as asexual
“Sexual Orientation and Self-Perception”
A study that reimagines the Kinsey Scale as a two-dimensional spectrum that accounts for asexuality
“The Innocent Bystander: Asexual Militancy”
An interview with the president of the Asexual Liberation Movement
“This guy’s not a freak, he’s just asexual”
A newspaper advice columnist suggests to a reader that they might be asexual
Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
The book which first introduced the concept of “limerence”