Who is the founder of our asexuality?

[PHOENIX97]

I'm just curious of who first gave our sexuality a name. I looked it up but it doesn't say who first mentioned how we feel. To explain that this isn't made up and that this is real. And beautifully complex

[Camicon]

It's of Greek origin. The prefix "a" or "an" meaning "without" or "not". A-sexual. A-romantic. A-gnostic. A-theist. An-hydrous. An-archy. It's similar to homo- and heterosexual. "Homo" means "same", "hetero" means "other"; "same sexual" and "other sexual", meaning "someone who prefers the same sex" and "someone who prefers the other sex".

 

Asexual means, literally, "not sexual". Someone who prefers no sex.

[Yep, me]

There are records of It as early as the 19th century, but I don't think it has 'one worded origin'

[Muledeer]

The word also has biological origins:  bacteria and garlic reproduce asexually.

[Rynn]

I think you can find your answers here: http://wiki.asexuality.org/Asexual_history

 

I watched the (A)sexual documentary quite a while ago, but I seem to remember that asexuality had a lot of different names before. Some called it non-sexual. David Jay founded AVEN, which called it asexuality, and AVEN became the most prominent asexual website, so the name 'asexual' stuck.