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Mandrewliter is a member of the asexual community involved with academic outreach, with a particular focus on the relationship between asexuality and the diagnosis Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, currently listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR).

Mandrewliter first joined AVEN shortly after discovering the asexual community in September 2007, during his first semester of an MA/Ph.D. program in linguistics in the United States. He quickly took an interest in research on asexuality and trying to develop a framework for understanding asexuality. He got involved with AVENues, where he had a number of articles published beginning in March 2008. In June 2008, he began writing a blog, initially called "Musings on an Asexy Theme," which he later renamed "Asexual Explorations." Out of that blog grew the website [Asexual Explorations], which hosted static content versions of work on his blog and the most extensive bibliography on asexuality to date. His blog was renamed [Asexual Explorations Blog].

Beginning in summer 2007, some members of AVEN formed a small group of people formed the "AVEN DSM Taskforce", a group aiming to promote dialogue with experts in human sexuality regarding the relationship between asexuality and HSDD and how (and if) means could be taken to make DSM-5 more asexual friendly. Mandrewliter was in charge of the background research for this project and did much of the writing of the final report that was submitted to the DSM-5 Sexual Dysfunctions Subworkgroup.

Growing out of this work regarding HSDD, mandrewliter became interested in and involved with another part of the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders chapter of the DSM--the paraphilias. On this subject, he wrote a paper, published in the Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychiatry arguing for removing these diagnoses from the DSM, and arguing against a new definition of "paraphilia" being proposed for DSM-5.