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Cate Perfect

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Cate Perfect

Salutations and welcome to AVEN!

AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network) was created with the goals of providing a virtual home for asexuals and their allies and educating those interested in learning more about asexuality. If you have any questions regarding asexuality you might want to begin by having a look at THIS PAGE which has links to the frequently asked questions and other useful information.

Whether you're asexual, sexual or merely curious you're welcome to join in the discussions, as new opinions are always valued. Though we are quite tolerant we are also protective of our cyberspace haven and abusive language and graphic depictions of sexuality are discouraged without some sort of prior disclaimer. We don't censor, but simply ask you warn those who might not care to see/read about graphic sex. Putting something like [warning - graphic] in the subject of your post will help this.

If you'd like more detail on the sort of behaviour that is and is not allowed please check out the AVEN guidelines which are HERE

That post will also tell you about the structure of AVEN and how it is organised with admins and mods who exist to help keep the board running along happily. Collectively they are known as the admod team. Generally we don't step in unless the situation requires it.

If you are ever threatened or feel unsafe on the boards in any way or you need any help with logging in or something similar please pm or e-mail an admod who will contact the other admods and get the situation dealt with.

We very rarely have trolls (people who post obscene material for no reason other than seeking attention) or spammers who post (links to commercial websites usually about drugs/porn etc) but it does happen occasionally and the admods are here to quash that behaviour and keep the board safe for all members.

In addition to the admod team there is the Project Team or PT whose job it is to help raise awareness of AVEN and asexuality. They have already undertaken a number of projects such as the introduction of the AVEN wiki which can be found HERE.

As AVEN is such a big place and it can seem overwhelming with all the buttons there's a handy guide to explain all the technical aspects of the site HERE

Do check it out as it answers most of the commonly asked technical questions.

If you are new to the site please feel free to post your story (as well as how you found us) in this forum and if you have any questions regarding the board feel free to pm a member of the admod team. You can find the admins through the names listed at the bottom of the forum index page and the names of the mods can be found under their respective forums. For those unfamiliar with a phpBB format simply hit the little 'pm' button below the post of the members (or on their profile page) you'd like to contact and you'll be given something similar to an email to fill in. Or you can click on the little e-mail button.

Once again, welcome! :D

(original material by Cate. Edited by Amcan 30th Dec 2006 and EGD 14th Dec 2008 and Fosco 17th Mar 2009)

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