Asexual
Artifacts involving asexual people
“*Afraid to Ask”
A satirical reader submission criticizing sex in the media, responding to an article on asexuality
“A history of asexuality”
A timeline of asexual history, with a major focus on early online asexual communities
“A Lack of Sexual Desire Emerges as a Contemporary Condition”
A newspaper article on the emergence of asexuality as a new phenomenon
“A Sexual Glossary”
A satirical glossary of queer identities which includes “a-sexual”
“A Typology of Transsexualism: Gender Identity Theory and Data”
An academic paper that classifies trans women into three groups—heterosexual, homosexual, and asexual
“All God’s Children Need Love” Gay Freedom Day Parade
A photo featuring a sign for equal rights for queer people, including asexuals
“Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups”
One of the first academic papers on asexuality
“Asexual Chic: Everybody’s Not Doing It”
A newspaper story in which various self-professed asexual people are interviewed
“Asexual Man Needs Counseling, Not Advice”
An advice columnist suggests the reason a reader is asexual is his “fear of close relationships”
“Asexuality BC (Before Cake)”
A personal recounting of early asexual history by an early AVEN member
“Asexuality: Prevalence and Associated Factors in a National Probability Sample”
An early study on the prevalence of asexuality
“Asexuals have problems too”
A satirical article about the prevalence of sex in society from the perspective of a fictionalized asexual
“Atypical sexualities face oppression”
A newspaper article in which a sex therapist expresses concern about celibates being labelled as asexual
“Between Mental Health and Mental Disease”
A medical case study that describes a woman who does not want to have sex with her husband as asexual
“Black rings and other ways to show asexual pride”
The tradition of asexuals wearing a black ring is introduced in an AVEN forum thread
“Choose Your Label” Barnard College
A photo of activists at Barnard College inviting people to choose their own label
“Committed, Loving, yet Asexual Relationships”
A user in an online newsgroup asks for advice finding a committed partnership as an sexual person
“Eunuch Lib: No More Sex!”, Berkeley Barb
An article in the newspaper Berkeley Barb which posits that young people are choosing to be asexual