Definition Essay: What Is Asexuality?

What is Asexuality? An asexual is defined by AVEN as “someone who does not experienced sexual attraction”(2013). Contrary to the scientific term an asexual does not reproduce through meiosis. Asexual orientations and sexual abuse have no connection or relationship in deciding whether one person defines themselves as asexual (thetrevorproject). This should also not be confused with being genderless or lacking sexual organs. In today’s culture this seems to be almost an impossibility with how sexualized our society has become through ads, movies and music which all cater to a highly sexualized point of view. What many don’t realize is that there is a relatively small population of people who don’t view things from the same place and walk out

He did little to look into and instead focused on the parallels between homosexuality and heterosexuality and how they interacted in bisexuality on the scale he created (asexuality.org, 2013). The 1.5% of adult males he found to have no sexual attraction were labeled as a separate category of X. In 1977, Myra T. Johnson provided the first research into an asexual demographic. Johnson recognized that society portrays asexual women as "oppressed by a consensus that they are nonexistent," and as a result these people were left behind by feminist and sexual revolutions or written off as non-sexual for religious reasons. In 1980, Michael D. Storms created his own version of the Kinsey scale but this version allowed for an asexual category that was not available on Kinsey’s version by using eroticism and fantasizing as the factors for information. Storms believed that many asexuals were being wrongly classified as bisexuals based on Kinsey’s scale and that his version would better provide a place for these people (1980). These theories all helped to lead towards research actually being performed to advance the placement of asexuals in society so that they may have a rightful place amongst everyone else as equals. For many researchers, difficulties have occurred depending on how they

Sexuality was seen by many as a sort of line with sexuality on one end and asexuality on the other with many different sexualities such as demisexual and gray-asexual in the middle where sexual attraction is only felt occasionally. Not only that but the lack of sexual attraction does not constitute the lack of sexual activities (thetrevorproject). While many asexual may want no part in sex whatsoever, many do and participate in the same way as you would expect every sexual person to. These people are known as sex positive in the community as they have no aversion to the subject. This may be for themselves or because they understand their partner enjoys sexual activities as a way to feel emotionally connected to the other person but asexuals do not find them to be necessary in most cases. Some asexuals are also sex negative and prefer not to talk about and or participate in sexual activities much in the way that many expect. Asexuality is in no way the same as celibacy. Celibacy is a choice whereas asexuality is not (UUA,