Research on Asexuality

This morning while I was stuck in queue waiting to talk to my GP, I came across a rather bigoted person from r/Trueoffmychest who conflated Asexuality to a product of to quote:

1. Mental health issues or Autism
2. Medication or illicit drugs
3. Psychological trauma, specifically SA

So that was fun to read. Anyways, I went a bit overboard with the response but I did find some great research article for reference as a result so some good did come out of this.

The last article I found has a quote that sums up Asexuality quite well I think:

“Asexuality isn’t a complex. It’s not a sickness. It’s not an automatic sign of trauma. It’s not a behavior. It’s not the result of a decision.

It’s not a chastity vow or an expression that we are ‘saving ourselves’. We aren’t by definition religious. We aren’t calling ourselves asexual as a statement of purity or moral superiority.

We’re not amoebas or plants. We aren’t automatically gender confused, anti-gay, anti-straight, anti-any-sexual orientation, anti-woman, anti-man, anti-any-gender or anti sex.

We aren’t automatically going through a phase, following a trend, or tying to rebel. We aren’t defined by prudishness. We aren’t calling ourselves asexual because we failed to find a suitable partner.
We aren’t necessarily afraid of intimacy. And we aren’t asking for anyone to ‘fix’ us.”
(Decker, 2015, p. 3)

Just thought I’d share those articles on here for anyone else interested in reading up.

Scherrer KS. Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire. Sexualities. 2008 Oct 1;11(5):621-641. doi: 10.1177/1363460708094269. PMID: 20593009; PMCID: PMC2893352. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893352/

Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters May 2015 The Journal of Sex Research 52(4):362-379 DOI:10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713 SourcePubMed Authors:Anthony F Bogaert, Brock University https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275278342AsexualityWhatItIsandWhyItMatters

Asexuality Luke Brunning, Natasha McKeever
First published: 13 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12472
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/japp.12472

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Asexual Pride
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Just friends

I’m just so sick and tired of my family and friends whenever I bring up a boy they are like oooo you got a boyfriend now? (I’m a girl) Then my mum is telling me to be careful and if I invite him over she has to be there to make sure we don’t do anything. I just feel like screaming out that I’m a sex repulsed asexual who doesn’t want sex and that we are just friends. A GUY AND A GIRL CAN BE FRIENDS. Can’t they? Please I’m so tired of defending my friendships with guys why can’t we just be friends

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r/asexuality on Reddit: Just friends

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Me sharing what i thought was an innocent funny video to my brother…
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I think I might be ace

I’ve been thinking for a while that I may be ace. I’m still working it out myself. I’m mainly think this because I never want sex, and I recently discovered that what I thought was sexual attraction may just be aesthetic attraction. It was also pointed out to me that most people think about sex with attractive strangers, which I never do. I feel I could probably go the rest of my life without sex and not be too bothered by it.

Are these signs I could be asexual or am I misreading these signs?

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r/asexuality on Reddit: I think I might be ace

Posted by u/guitardruggo - 10 votes and 3 comments

Sex is a hoax developed by sex companies to sell more sex
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Anyone else really don't like being touched?

I don't really like being touched by anyone apart from my closest family members and I never really thought about it until I met another ace who also doesn't like being touched. I tried to find stuff online but all the articles and papers I could find talked about parenting styles and insecure attachment. I'd like to know if this is a thing in asexuality or if I'm just weird and happened to run into another weird person.

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r/asexuality on Reddit: Anyone else really don't like being touched?

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Why ?
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