Guest member25959 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 BG News is a largely student-centric news website for students attending Bowling Green State University (Ohio, USA). This recent article focuses on their Asexuality Awareness Program Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:12 am | Updated: 1:18 am, Wed Apr 10, 2013. Author: Seth Weber Asexuality isnt limited to single-celled organisms, but it pertains to people as well. The Asexuality Awareness Program at the University, created by graduate students Amy Hill and Kyle Fassett, hosted an event educating people about asexuality Tuesday night in 315 Union. People who are asexual are not sexually attracted to other people. During the event, Hill and Fassett introduced a crowd of roughly 50 people to resources such as the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network, an asexual online community. Issues associated with being asexual were also discussed. Some of these issues were about asexuality not being taken seriously. Hill and Fassett said some say that people who are asexual just havent had sex yet, so they dont know for sure that they dont want it. Most 13-year-olds know that they want sex, Hill said, They [asexuals] did not experience that, so they dont need to try it to know that they dont want it. Hill and Fassett started the program because they wanted to teach people about something that not many people were aware of. It is not a common or well-known population, Fassett said. The two saw the documentary (A)sexual, which inspired them to teach people about asexuality. Not much research has been done about asexuality, Hill said. A lot of the information we got for our presentation did come from that documentary because theres so little research done on this sexual orientation and identity, Hill said. Hill and Fassett wanted people to know that asexuality is normal and should be considered a sexual orientation. They said that theres no evidence that asexuality is a psychological disorder. Sexuality is not as binary as people tend to think of it today, Hill said. Although asexuality can be considered a sexual orientation, Hill and Fassett said asexuals have had a difficult time becoming a part of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community. They said this is because unlike most other sexual orientations, asexuals are not interested in sex. I dont feel like Im welcome [in the LGBT community], said senior Amy Arnold, who attended the event and identifies as an asexual. Arnold saw the event on the campus update and said she was glad there was a group bringing awareness of asexuality. She expressed that it is difficult to be asexual. Its very difficult because theres such a pressure to be sexual, Arnold said, Youre bombarded with it every day. To be anything different is kind of hard. Arnold wants people to know that asexual people are just like sexual people. Theres nothing wrong with us, she said. For a brief intro, they seem to discuss quite a lot of important facts, personally I like the lean towards sex positivity and the mentions of relationship between the LGBT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripjawwolffang Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vega91 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Seems like a good article. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aprincess Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 That's amazing. Really I hope one day that this society will stop act like asexual people are different. On my school, nobody ever heard about it or something. It's just weird... Why don't make schools more articles like that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_1 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 About the relations of LGBT, I think it'd be nice to mention about the divides of how much we should be associated with the lgbt inside the asexual community, but I can see why they would overlook that or just not mention it as it's a very sensitive issue. That being said, I like the overall article, but it could have been said about the divides here and elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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