Asexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction.

Welcome to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. AVEN hosts the world's largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality. AVEN strives to create open, honest discussion about asexuality among sexual and asexual people alike.

Unlike celibacy, which is a choice, asexuality is a sexual orientation. Asexual people have the same emotional needs as everybody else and are just as capable of forming intimate relationships. To find out more about asexuality, click here.

Asexual Perspectives

Question What You Think You Know

By Trix

Browsing through the forums on AVEN, I come across many young people just entering the community, asking the same question: "Am I asexual? Do I belong here?"

Digest for 1st - 8th March 2010

World Watch:

Shvaugn has discovered a French book, La Revolution Asexuelle: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=48479

bthesite.com (from Baltimore free paper B) has a very positive article on asexuality: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=48512

Ily has posted links to some interesting blog posts on asexuality and disability: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=48571

"Asexual people have the same emotional needs as anyone else, and like in the sexual community we vary widely in how we fulfill those needs. Some asexual people are happier on their own, others are happiest with a group of close friends. Other asexual people have a desire to form more intimate romantic relationships, and will date and seek long-term partnerships. Asexual people are just as likely to date sexual people as we are to date each other."

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