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Asexuality: Understanding and Navigating the Asexual Community

This book explores asexuality, disidentifying with sexuality, diversity in the asexual community, relationships, and creating partnerships. It provides a set of ideas for self-reflection and relationships without sex or with sex, focusing on the importance of nonsexual relationships. The text discusses different types of partnerships, including friendships with partnership elements and community involvement.

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Asexuality: Understanding and Navigating the Asexual Community

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  1. ASEX 101 Asexuality and the Rise of the Asexual Community David Jay

  2. Some Context

  3. Asexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction. What is sexual attraction? What is sexuality?

  4. Disidentifying with Sexuality

  5. My Story

  6. Diversity in the Asexual Community • Gender Orientation (Gay-A, Straight-A, Bi-A, etc.) • Relationship Desire and Language (Romantic, Aromantic, Queer, Friend-focused, Asocial) • Asexual people, sexual people and partners • Sex-Averse and Sex Neutral • Age • Phases of identity • Nationality/Language • Arousal and Masturbation

  7. Identity Blood Type Gender Race Eye Color Profession

  8. Masturbation

  9. A set up ideas for thinking about self, happiness and relationships without sex. A set up ideas for thinking about self, happiness and relationships with sex.

  10. It’s All About Relationships Nonsexual: • Friends • Coworkers • Acquaintances • Siblings/Parents • Strangers • Friends: • Low-key • Go with the flow • Don’t talk about the relationship much • Lifelong friendship • Sexual: • Partners • Girl/boyfriends • Flings • Spouses • Partners: • Emotionally intense • Make sacrifices • Need to define the relationship • Family

  11. How Asexual People Create Partnerships Dating/Marriage Asexual Asexual Sexual

  12. How Asexual People Create Partnerships Friendship with “Partnership Elements”

  13. How Asexual People Create Partnerships Community

  14. How Asexual People Create Partnerships

  15. How Asexual People Create Partnerships

  16. Questions? AVEN: Asexuality.org Podcast: AsexualUnderground.Blogspot.Com

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