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Asexuality [1][2][3] is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone or low or absent interest in sexual activity.[4][5][6] It is one of the many sexual orientations, alongside heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality.[7][8][9], etc. A study in 2004 placed the prevalence of asexuality at 1% in the British population.[7][10]

Asexuality is distinct from abstention from sexual activity and from celibacy,[11][12] which are behavioral and generally motivated by factors such as an individual's personal or religious beliefs.[13] Sexual orientation, unlike sexual behaviour, is not a choice. [14] Some asexual people engage in sexual activity despite lacking sexual attraction, because asexual people can still like sex and most asexual people still have a libido. They also might do so to please romantic partners or a desire to have children.[6][11]

Acceptance of asexuality as a sexual orientation and field of scientific research is still growing, though it is generally accepted. However, aphobia or acephobia, which is the discrimination against asexuals, does indeed exist. Many members of the medical and psychology community often label asexuality as a hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

Various asexual communities have started to form since the advent of the World Wide Web and social media. The most prolific and well-known of these communities is the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), which was founded in 2001 by David Jay and has its own wiki here.[9][15]

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References[]

  1. Asexual. TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved on 3 December 2011.
  2. Nonsexual. TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved on 3 December 2011.
  3. Harris, Lynn (26 May 2005). Asexual and proud!. Salon. Retrieved on 3 December 2011.
  4. Bogaert, Anthony F. (2006). "Toward a conceptual understanding of asexuality". Review of General Psychology 10 (3) 241–250. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
  5. Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective McGraw-Hill
  6. 6.0 6.1 Asexuality: Classification and Characterization (August 2004) http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf
  7. 7.0 7.1 Asexuality: prevalence and associated factors in a national probability sample
  8. Asexuality gets more attention, but is it a sexual orientation? (November 2005) http://www.apositive.org/wordpress_backup/?page_id=222
  9. 9.0 9.1 Sex and Society Marshall Cavendish http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82
  10. "Study: One in 100 adults asexual", CNN, 15 October 2004. Retrieved on 11 November 2007. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Elsevier Health Sciences http://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382&dq=&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ysV7Upr5FfPnsATW8IGYBw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
  12. DePaulo, Bella (26 September 2011). ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?. Psychology Today. Retrieved on 13 December 2011.
  13. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (3d ed. 1992), entries for celibacy and thence abstinence
  14. Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality. American Psychological Association. Retrieved on March 30, 2013.
  15. Swash, Rosie (February 25, 2012). Among the asexuals. The Guardian. Retrieved on February 2, 2013.
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