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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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NEW! We hope everyone enjoyed Asexual Awareness Week (20-26 October 2019), also known as Ace Week, with visibility and outreach events happening around the world. For a summary please see The Master Thread and also the Ace Week website. To get involved in future events please email aven.pt@gmail.com.

NEW! The Ace Community Census is now open for a limited time only. This survey collects demographics and experiences of members in the ace community, including asexual, demisexual, gray-asexual, and related identities. Anyone is welcome to take part.

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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 2nd - 9th December 2019

Site News:

Nominations are being taken for the upcoming Project Team elections.

Further Project Team updates are available to view in the bulletin thread.

Requests:

The UBC Sexual Health Lab is conducting a study on aspects of sexuality and is looking for participants who identify as a man.

A Swedish activist is looking for interviewees in Los Angeles.

Visibility:

Asexuals were represented in this year's Pride parade in Perth, Australia.

The Authenticity Global Online Summit will feature a speaker on asexuality on Thursday 12th December.

World Watch:

TV Tropes has a page on asexuality.

Asexuality is mentioned in a Counter Punch article on Postmodern Sexual Identity.

A Tumblr post announces that Ricki Simmons, a voice actor on Invader Zim, is asexual.

Polygon discusses the representation of asexuality in video game Death Stranding.

CBR discusses whether Frozen's Elsa might be asexual.

LGBT+ magazine Attitude will be the first UK publication to feature an asexual woman on its front cover, The Independent reports.

OZY looks at asexuality in India.

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