Asexual
Artifacts involving asexual people
“*Afraid to Ask”
A satirical reader submission criticizing sex in the media, responding to an article on asexuality
Ain’t I a Woman?, vol. 1, no. 8
A reader mentions asexual women in a submission about oppression in queer relationships
The Satanic Bible
A book describing asexuals as being “sexually subliminated” by non-sexual interests
The Female Impersonators
A book which describes “anaphrodites,” who never desire or pursue marriage, courtship, or sex
Sexualpathologie
An early example of pathologization of asexual people in medical literature and use of the term “asexual”
“Says Sex Hatred Still Spreading”
Novelist Compton Mackenzie expresses concern about an “asexual class” of people
Ein Weib?
An early academic paper on queer identities where the author self-identities as asexual
Sappho und Sokrates
A formative academic work in legitimizing queer identities which recognizes asexual people
Psychopathia Sexualis
The first use of the term “anesthesia sexual” to refer to asexual people