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Asexual Awareness Week Links
Oct. 30th, 2016 07:00 pmI wanted to get this up earlier and perhaps slightly better formatted but I've been sick and getting posted on the last day of Asexual Awareness Week 2016 will have to suffice.
For Awareness week this year I posted meta and reblogged some information posts at Tumblr.
And here's some interesting articles I've gathered throughout the past year.
Asexuality Is a Sexual Orientation, Not a Sexual Dysfunction
"[The researchers] conclude that asexuality does not appear to be a psychiatric condition, a symptom of a psychiatric condition, or a disorder of sexual desire. Instead, it seems to meet most of the criteria for classification as a distinct sexual orientation."
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Asexual
"Dr. Brotto’s review suggests that, no matter how perplexing people may find asexuality, there’s no reason to question its legitimacy or its normality.
For one, Brotto has previously found that there’s a fairly stark difference between asexuality and true forms of sexual dysfunction."
( more links under the cut )
And there's this, not truly an asexual piece and from an asexual perspective perhaps more demisexual than completely asexual, but gloriously and unapologetically revelling in intimacy that does not involve sex.
"For me, sharing sex with someone requires a certain alignment, and I do not take that lightly. My sex requires that I can possibly foresee living with a person and combining all my stuff with all of their stuff (and I mean physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual stuff—the stuff that just feels heavy if it’s not the right fit, but feels buoyant beyond imagination when it is). It is delicate, it is careful, it is not presumptuous or impulsive.
And I do not think that our connection is somehow weakened because we do not share our bodies with each other.
For love is love is love is love, and that is what I want."
Source: Can We Be Lovers & Not Have Sex? Via Brentan Schellenbach
For Awareness week this year I posted meta and reblogged some information posts at Tumblr.
And here's some interesting articles I've gathered throughout the past year.
Asexuality Is a Sexual Orientation, Not a Sexual Dysfunction
"[The researchers] conclude that asexuality does not appear to be a psychiatric condition, a symptom of a psychiatric condition, or a disorder of sexual desire. Instead, it seems to meet most of the criteria for classification as a distinct sexual orientation."
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Asexual
"Dr. Brotto’s review suggests that, no matter how perplexing people may find asexuality, there’s no reason to question its legitimacy or its normality.
For one, Brotto has previously found that there’s a fairly stark difference between asexuality and true forms of sexual dysfunction."
( more links under the cut )
And there's this, not truly an asexual piece and from an asexual perspective perhaps more demisexual than completely asexual, but gloriously and unapologetically revelling in intimacy that does not involve sex.
"For me, sharing sex with someone requires a certain alignment, and I do not take that lightly. My sex requires that I can possibly foresee living with a person and combining all my stuff with all of their stuff (and I mean physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual stuff—the stuff that just feels heavy if it’s not the right fit, but feels buoyant beyond imagination when it is). It is delicate, it is careful, it is not presumptuous or impulsive.
And I do not think that our connection is somehow weakened because we do not share our bodies with each other.
For love is love is love is love, and that is what I want."
Source: Can We Be Lovers & Not Have Sex? Via Brentan Schellenbach
