Asexual: a person who does not experience sexual attraction.
Welcome to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. AVEN hosts the world's largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality. AVEN strives to create open, honest discussion about asexuality among sexual and asexual people alike.
Unlike celibacy, which is a choice, asexuality is a sexual orientation. Asexual people have the same emotional needs as everybody else and are just as capable of forming intimate relationships. To find out more about asexuality, click here.
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AVEN Post of the Week
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As a Sexual, I believe the rule should be the same for Aces that I always advise other Sexuals; if you're so disinterested in what's going on that you have to consciously put on an act to appear to be enjoying it at all, then stop. Plenty of sexual relationships involve sexual acts that one partner enjoys more than the other, but if the other partner isn't getting any pleasure or comfort out of it at all, and the other partner needs them to seem to in order to enjoy it themselves, then it's best to find another move that's a bit more mutually pleasing, even if it's still a little unbalanced.
– Pamcakes on faking sexual enjoyment.
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Did you know...
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• … 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.
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Asexuality in the Media
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• The May/June issue of AVEN’s online newsletter, AVENues, has been published.
• On the Savage Love Podcast, Dan Savage speaks with David Jay, about what means to be a part of the asexual community.
• On io9, Annalee Newitz asks "What does it mean if you don’t want to have sex?"
• Kitch Magazine's, Helen Havlak writes on the asexual community in "I'd Rather Eat Cake"
• A paper, Theoretical Issues in the Study of Asexuality by CJ DeLuzio Chasin, has been published in Archives of Sexual Behavior. AVEN discussion here.
•The Telegraph reports on celibacy and on asexuality in “No sex please: the joys of a celibate life”.
• Harlot magazine, the online version of Scarlet magazine, featured an article entitled "Rise of the Asexual" in issue 19 in October 2010.
• Helen Croydon interviewed several AVENites for an article in Foreplay magazine and another in the Times.
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