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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 to abstain from sexual activity, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are, just like other sexual orientations. 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. For media and speaking requests please contact aven.pt@gmail.com.

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NEW! AVEN plans to host TWO conferences this year.

Partnering with Aces and Aros NYC, we plan a one day conference on 29 June 2019 in New York City, the day before the Pride march. For conference tickets click here and for an events calendar in the NY area, click here.

Further, we hold the UK Asexuality conference 2019 on 23 June in Edinburgh. We have now confirmed the conference will be held at the John McIntyre Conference Centre ("Edinbrugh First"), EH16 5AY. To register, please click here. For more details, visit the conference website.

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Asexual Perspectives

Opening the door to self-discovery

By ~Acer~

As humans, we are in general a social species, programmed to support each other in family units and communities and it seems often mob rule dictates what is normal, expected or acceptable behaviour. Especially in a modern society where the media projects these ideas into every facet of our lives, we are now educated very early on as to how life apparently is. No matter what our true feelings inside, we may now attempt to adhere to the ‘rules’ that we have collectively set ourselves.

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