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For about the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to put together a bibliography about asexuality within academic work (especially within sexology.) It started out with my trying to find out as much as I could, largely out of personal interest, and I later realized that what I had put together might be useful for others as well, so I have a page about it called Existing Research on the site Asexual Explorations (listed in my signature.)

I was curious if anyone else has found anything that you think should be added to that bibliography. So far, I’ve spent a lot time doing searches in online journal databases like JSTOR, Ebsco, InfoTrac, Scopus, and Web of Science. Also, I've done searches for dissertation abstracts and google books. However, this leaves the bibliography deficient in terms of

1) Non-English-language works.

2) Books. Most of my searching in books is limited to that which can be found on Google books.

3) Older journals. (i.e. ones whose text and/or abstracts aren’t available online.)

4) Case studies. Sometimes in literature dealing with low/no sexual desire, there are case studies of people who sound like they’re asexual. Sometimes they will even be called asexual. I’ve only personally found one such example, largely because I haven’t read lot of works involving case studies.

If anyone, in doing their own research on asexuality, has found anything specifically dealing with asexuality (either as the main subject or only tangentially), I would love to be able to add this to help out people in the future who are doing research on asexuality. Also, if you have anything to suggest, please check the current list to make sure I don't already have it.

Thanks. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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It is very possible this could redundant and useless because you have already looked at this, but worth pointing it out in case you haven't. Personally I suspect whatever information can be gleamed from these books is going to consist of: opinion asexuality is a disorder, opinion asexuality is not pathological and part of the fluid spectrum of sexuality, Kinsey report and Category "X," Michael Storm's model of conceptualizing sexual orientation.

Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (And Everything In-Between)

by Russ Kick (2005)

Synopsis

Orgasms, sexual inventions, spirituality, high-tech porn, gender-blending, hustling, masturbation, politics, airplane sex, disabilities, sex magick, biblical erotica, advertising, first times, sex in space, asexuality, group sex . . . are you ready for Disinformation's look at the world of sex?

Master anthologizer Russ Kick has immersed himself in the many and varied worlds of sex writing, producing a definitive collection exposing reality that's way, way stranger than XXX fiction. Profiled in The New York Times as an "information archaeologist," Russ digs where others would not think to look for delicious details on the present, past, and future of sex, including:

The first-ever look at the FBI's porn collection (the Obscene Reference File), complete with reproduced documents

FAA reports about people having sex on commercial flights-the so-called "mile-high club"

A look at brilliant, kinky, and scarce sex-zines, such as Frighten the Horses, Taste of Latex, Future Sex, and Pucker Up, as well as Sexology, published by Hugo Gernsback, the father of science fiction

The forgotten sex books of Charles Atlas ("Hey, quit kicking sand in our faces, you bully!")

This massive, oversized anthology features a panoply of sexperts, everyone from prostitutes to professors, legends to newcomers, sexual revolutionaries to sexologists and beyond, providing a varied and unexpected look at sex, challenging our notions of what is possible and in turn exciting, enervating, frightening, and freaking us out.

Masculine Scenarios

by Alcira M. Alizade, Alcira M. Alizade

Synopsis

"Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality and asexuality. Concepts on sexuality and gender are outlined anew in an interplay of theoretical and clinical networks, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of analytic praxis freed from prejudice and monolithic convention." Alcira Mariam Alizade from the Foreword

The World's Best Sex Writing 2005

by Mitzi Szereto (Editor)

Synopsis

Here is the year's best nonfiction writing on sex, for the first time expanded to include contributions from overseas. It includes an interview with Harry Reems of Deep Throat fame, essays on the growth of asexuality, the XXXChurch, “sexperts” and their lack of qualifications, sex in Japan, and alternative sexual practices. Publications featured include Wired, Salon.com, Village Voice, the Spectator, the Guardian (London), the Sunday Times (London), the Erotic Review (London), and more.

The distinguised and varied list of contributors includes: Dave Barry (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald) on sex, men, and fruit flies; Nigel Planer (novelist and actor) on the sexual allure of Tahitian women; Ron Nyswaner (screenwriter on Philadelphia) on his sexual and emotional domination by a male hustler; Toni Bentley (former ballerina) on her obsession with anal sex; Steven Rinella (novelist and journalist) on his discomfort watching a friend’s wife strip; Jeannette Angell (novelist and professor) on her experiences as an escort; Jonathan Margolis (novelist and author of The Intimate History of the Orgasm) on the obsession for orgasm; Sebastian Horsley (controversial British artist who underwent crucifixion as part of his art) on the benefits of no-strings, paid-for sex with prostitutes; and others.

I would look this up myself, but have bigger more pressing matters to deal with.

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Lord Happy Toast

Thanks for the suggestions!

I did quick searches through them with google books and didn't find much of interest--though certain sections are omitted, so you never know what might be there. I found the word "asexual" and "asexualtiy" in the disinformation one, but they weren't what we mean by the term. The best sex writing book sound intriguing, and I'm curious if there's something in one of the parts not available online. (But it's not a book university libraries are dying to get their hands on, it seems. I may try one of the public libraries around here.)

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