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Am I the only one?

By Mandrewliter

At least since high school, I’ve been aware that I was sexually different from my peers. I don’t know if there was a first moment when I realized this, but I have a few memories that stand out. Once I was riding on a bus with a few other male students. The conversation turned to a topic many asexuals have come to dread: “Who do you think is hot?” Before this point, I had never been in such a conversation before. I had been asked who I liked, but I could answer that because I did occasionally get crushes on girls, which usually lasted a while. One of the guys on the bus answered the question, talking about this one girl. One of the other boys teased him about how he liked her. But he responded that he didn’t like her; he just thought she was hot. I was taken aback by this distinction. Everyone else understood it, but this meant that there was this experience of thinking someone was hot entirely separate from liking them that I had never felt. When it was my turn to answer the question, I said I didn’t think anyone was hot. No one believed me.

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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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Digest for 4th - 11th January 2021

Site News:

Voting is now taking place in the Moderator and Project Team elections.

The Winter 2021 issue of AVENues has been published, celebrating 20 years of AVEN. Submissions are now being taken for the next issue on the subject of wellness.

Research Requests:

A PhD student at University College Cork has created a questionnaire to study the internalisation of an asexual orientation.

World Watch:

YouTuber Hannah Witton's video on relationship myths covers many aspects relevant to asexuals, though does not discuss asexuality explicitly.

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