1970

Artifacts from the 1970s

“Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups”

One of the first academic papers on asexuality

1977

Asexual Research Bibliography

A comprehensive bibliography of academic research on asexuality

1977–2022

“A Lack of Sexual Desire Emerges as a Contemporary Condition”

A newspaper article on the emergence of asexuality as a new phenomenon

1978

“Asexual Chic: Everybody’s Not Doing It”

A newspaper story in which various self-professed asexual people are interviewed

1978

“Eunuch Lib: No More Sex!”, Berkeley Barb

An article in the newspaper Berkeley Barb which posits that young people are choosing to be asexual

1978

“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

1978

“Atypical sexualities face oppression”

A newspaper article in which a sex therapist expresses concern about celibates being labelled as asexual

1979

“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

1979

Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

The book which first introduced the concept of “limerence”

1979