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.
"If something as simple and harmless as not having sex is seen as taboo, then we don't have liberty... we've simply exchanged one oppressive cultural norm (being chaste and then getting heterosexually married and having 2.5 kids) for a different one (having lots and lots of sex, but in specific ways and with specific kinds of people, according to specific social structures)."
--Hallucigenia believes in sexual liberation.
Plans are afoot for a new asexuality documentary in the UK, but volunteers are needed to participate. If you're interested, take a look at this thread: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=45507
LGBT:
Next week is Warwick University's LGBT Awareness Week. Warwick has one of the UK's most A-friendly LGBT societies, and there are a number of events and talks dealing with asexuality that AVENites are invited to attend: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=45539
"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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