Asexuality Research Articles

[SharkeyGirl]

Good day!

 

I am an ace psychiatry resident trying to collect all data I can on the asexual spectrum and looking into the current research so I can expand awareness and visibility through my own work. I wanted to start a thread based on what I have found with citations, and hope that people will have other resources they can add to my collection. I will be updating this periodically and sorting articles by topic as I expand on my own understanding. Some will also be repeated in the various categories that they cover.

 

I post there because it has taken MANY hours for me to locate this number of articles and I hope to help others who are on this journey (and maybe find some collaborations?).

 

Thanks in advance! 

 

Is Asexuality a Pathology?

1. Autism
   1. Bush, H.H., Williams, L.W. & Mendes, E. Brief Report: Asexuality and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum. J Autism Dev Disord(2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04565-6
2. Eating Disorders
   1. Carlat DJ, Camargo CA Jr, Herzog DB. Eating disorders in males: a report on 135 patients. Am J Psychiatry. 1997 Aug;154(8):1127-32. doi: 10.1176/ajp.154.8.1127. PMID: 9247400.
   2. Tuiten A, Panhuysen G, Everaerd W, Koppeschaar H, Krabbe P, Zelissen P. The paradoxical nature of sexuality in anorexia nervosa. J Sex Marital Ther. 1993 Winter;19(4):259-75. doi: 10.1080/00926239308404370. PMID: 8308913.
   3. Raboch J, Faltus F. Sexuality of women with anorexia nervosa. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1991 Jul;84(1):9-11. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1991.tb01412.x. PMID: 1927571.
3. HSDD
   1. Sarah M. Steelman & Katherine M. Hertlein (2016) Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 27:2, 85-98, DOI: 10.1080/08975353.2016.1169014
4. General Pathologization
   1. Brotto LA, Knudson G, Inskip J, Rhodes K, Erskine Y. Asexuality: a mixed-methods approach. Arch Sex Behav. 2010;39:599–618.

 

Sexual Attitudes and Actions

1. Attitudes about Sex
   1. Maria Bulmer & Keise Izuma (2018) Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Sex and Romance in Asexuals, The Journal of Sex Research, 55:8, 962-974, DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1303438
   2. de Oliveira, L., Carvalho, J., Sarikaya, S. et al. Patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes in asexual persons: a systematic review. Int J Impot Res (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-020-0336-3
2. Engaging in Sex
   1. Jessica J. Hille, Megan K. Simmons & Stephanie A. Sanders (2020) “Sex” and the Ace Spectrum: Definitions of Sex, Behavioral Histories, and Future Interest for Individuals Who Identify as Asexual, Graysexual, or Demisexual, The Journal of Sex Research,57:7, 813-823, DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2019.1689378
   2. Catherine R.H. Aicken, Catherine H. Mercer & Jackie A. Cassell (2013) Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys, Psychology & Sexuality, 4:2, 121-135, DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2013.774161
   3. Van Houdenhove E, Gijs L, T’Sjoen G, Enzlin P. Stories about Asexuality: a qualitative study on asexual women. J Sex Marital Ther. 2015a;41:262–81., DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2014.889053
   4. de Oliveira, L., Carvalho, J., Sarikaya, S. et al. Patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes in asexual persons: a systematic review. Int J Impot Res (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-020-0336-3
3. Masturbation
   1. Brotto LA, Knudson G, Inskip J, Rhodes K, Erskine Y. Asexuality: a mixed-methods approach. Arch Sex Behav. 2010;39:599–618.
   2. de Oliveira, L., Carvalho, J., Sarikaya, S. et al. Patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes in asexual persons: a systematic review. Int J Impot Res (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-020-0336-3
4. Kinks
   1. Thom Winter-Gray & Nikki Hayfield (2019) ‘Can I be a kinky ace?’: How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes, Psychology & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2019.1679866
   2. de Oliveira, L., Carvalho, J., Sarikaya, S. et al. Patterns of sexual behavior and psychological processes in asexual persons: a systematic review. Int J Impot Res (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-020-0336-3

 

Asexual Mental Health

 

1. Horwitz, A.G., Berona, J., Busby, D.R., Eisenberg, D., Zheng, K., Pistorello, J., Albucher, R., Coryell, W., Favorite, T., Walloch, J.C. and King, C.A. (2020), Variation in Suicide Risk among Subgroups of Sexual and Gender Minority College Students. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 50: 1041-1053. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12637
2. Rentería, R., Benjet, C., Gutiérrez-García, R.A. et al. Prevalence of 12-month mental and substance use disorders in sexual minority college students in Mexico. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01943-4
3. Lauren B. McInroy, Brieanne Beaujolais, Vivian W. Y. Leung, Shelley L. Craig, Andrew D. Eaton & Ashley Austin (2020) Comparing asexual and non-asexual sexual minority adolescents and young adults: stressors, suicidality and mental and behavioural health risk outcomes, Psychology & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2020.1806103
4. Brotto LA, Knudson G, Inskip J, Rhodes K, Erskine Y. Asexuality: a mixed-methods approach. Arch Sex Behav. 2010;39:599–618.

[Bauer]

Hey @SharkeyGirl, 

 

There's a new discord server for academic ace and aro researchers if you're interested in joining that. Also a research resources drive which we can share - but not publicly so feel free to DM me. 

 

And! @Sennkestra do you have your links to the bibliography you're working on? 

[DarkStormyKnight]

@Bauer can interested individuals get access to the research resources drive, or is it just for researchers studying asexuality? I'd love to poke around just for my own interest as a scientist who does not study asexuality.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, DarkStormyKnight said:

@Bauer can interested individuals get access to the research resources drive, or is it just for researchers studying asexuality? I'd love to poke around just for my own interest as a scientist who does not study asexuality.

I am also interested, though I don't do my research on asexuality.

[Bauer]

On 12/9/2020 at 5:43 PM, Georgi said:

I am also interested, though I don't do my research on asexuality.

 

On 12/9/2020 at 11:27 AM, DarkStormyKnight said:

@Bauer can interested individuals get access to the research resources drive, or is it just for researchers studying asexuality? I'd love to poke around just for my own interest as a scientist who does not study asexuality.

Sure thing! Just DM'ed both of you.

[SpirallingSnowy]

Do any of these resources you’ve mentioned have any content on healthcare and asexuality? I’m looking for stuff to back up asexual needs I’m from healthcare providers for my states health policy ppl.

[Sennkestra]

Oops, I haven't been on AVEN lately, so I'm a bit late to the party, but you can find the asexual research bibliography here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/950137/asexual_research?

 

I also have a longer list of academic resources (including more info on the discord mentioned earlier) here: https://nextstepcake.wordpress.com/resources/asexual-research/