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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.

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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! We are pleased to announce International Asexuality Day (IAD) will be held annually on 6 April. Please follow on social media, or comment on AVEN.

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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Digest for 1st - 8th March 2021

Site News:

Voting has begun in the election for a new moderator.

Check out the latest update from the Project Team in the bulletin thread.

Research Request:

A Film and Television Production student at Dundalk Institute of Technology is conducting a survey on asexual representation in the media, and would also like to carry out more in-depth interviews.

Visibility:

AVENite Squeep would like to create a series of video interviews with asexuals for International Asexuality Day.

World Watch:

An article on demisexuality from Alfemminile references AVEN.

Alice Oseman talks to Pride.com about her aromantic YA novel Loveless.

The Columbia Chronicle looks at how to be a good ally to asexual people.

Katherine Highland's novel Streetlamps and Shepherd Moons has an asexual protagonist.

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