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If you just cuddle, that's ok, and she loves you. If you end up having sex, that's ok, and she loves you. If you get all self-conscious, totally lose the mood, and have an "Oh damn, I totally didn't relax" freakout, that's ok and she loves you. In fact, if that happens, I suggest you both make a point of laughing at the ridiculousness of it all - maybe pre-agree that if you freak out, then that means she has to feed you ice-cream until you calm down again, or some circuit-breaker like that.

– Olivier, on putting asexual partners at ease in mixed relationships.

• … that some asexual people are happier on their own or with a group of close friends, while other asexuals have a desire to date and will form more intimate romantic relationships?

• … that asexual relationships are based on the same elements that are also important for many sexual people, like understanding, commitment, trust, emotional intimacy and communication?

• … that for some asexuals arousal is a fairly regular occurrence, though it is not associated with a desire to find a sexual partner? Some asexuals will occasionally masturbate, but feel no desire for partnered sexuality. Other asexual people experience little or no arousal.

• In "FOX News Host Lambasts Asexuals As Lepers, Lez Get Real covers the recent FOX broadcast

• Xtra has an article about Ontario asexuals challenging assumptions

• Macleans On Campus published a press release about a new book, Understanding Asexuality

• The Independent reported on "Asexuals – the fourth sexual orientation"

• A short paper by Anthony F. Bogaert, "Asexuality and Autochorissexualism (Identity-Less Sexuality)", was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior on May 11, 2012.

• An article, "Asexual awakening", was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on May 9, 2012.

• "Asexuality comes out of the closet" - KPCC's Patt Morrison interviews David Jay and Shira Tarrant on April 6, 2012.

• Rachel Rabbit White writes how "Not Everybody Wants to Have Sex" for Jezebel.

• Rachel Hills interviews David Jay for The Atlantic in "Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement"

• Asexual Awareness Week has released the preliminary results of their Asexual Community Census 2011

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