Welcome to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. AVEN hosts the world's largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality. AVEN strives to create open, honest discussion about asexuality among sexual and asexual people alike.
Unlike celibacy, which is a choice, asexuality is a sexual orientation. Asexual people have the same emotional needs as everybody else and are just as capable of forming intimate relationships. To find out more about asexuality, click here.
"Why do people associate asexuality with a lack of the ability to love? This is just in my personal experience, but a good chunk of the people I've come out to just assume that because I'm asexual, I can't love. Today, my friend even told me that he envies me, because I don't have to deal with love.
Sure, I don't currently harbor romantic feelings for anyone, but that doesn't mean I'm incapable of it."
-- Nachosammich experiences love like many other people.
Project Team elections are now open: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/54096-elections-for-the-pr...
DSM Update:
If you've been following the progress of the revision of the DSM (regarding mental disorders), you might be interested to read the article 'Defining Paraphilia: Excluding Exclusion', which includes arguments for the depathologisation of asexuality: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/54028-discussion-of-asexua...
"Asexual people have the same emotional needs as anyone else, and like in the sexual community we vary widely in how we fulfill those needs. Some asexual people are happier on their own, others are happiest with a group of close friends. Other asexual people have a desire to form more intimate romantic relationships, and will date and seek long-term partnerships. Asexual people are just as likely to date sexual people as we are to date each other."
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