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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 to abstain from sexual activity, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are, just like other sexual orientations. 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. For media and speaking requests please contact aven.pt@gmail.com.

You may also like to check out our forums. (On occasion our forums may be undergoing maintenance: if so please visit our backup board.)

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COVID-19 update - April 2020 We hope everyone is keeping well during the pandemic. We have put together a brief list of resources and support groups directed at the ace and aro community for the lockdown in many cities, as well as a link to the AVEN Unofficial discord server.

NEW! (24 October 2021) Happy Ace Week (24-30 October 2021) everybody! Some activities include PanACEa, the Pan Asian ace conference, and Australian Ace Week. For other events please see the Ace Week website.

The Ace Survey for 2021 has also been released for Ace Week. To take it, please go here.

To get involved with ace and aro vis/ed activities or for media and speaker requests, please email aven.pt@gmail.com. If you have a question about asexuality, please email aven.qa@gmail.com.

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Asexual Perspectives

Opening the door to self-discovery

By ~Acer~

As humans, we are in general a social species, programmed to support each other in family units and communities and it seems often mob rule dictates what is normal, expected or acceptable behaviour. Especially in a modern society where the media projects these ideas into every facet of our lives, we are now educated very early on as to how life apparently is. No matter what our true feelings inside, we may now attempt to adhere to the ‘rules’ that we have collectively set ourselves.

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