Society should embrace various sources of sexual self-definition.
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Asexuality remains widely misunderstood. Here’s what it means and how this sexuality became a social movement.
Recent years have put more attention on LGBTQ people’s struggle for acceptance in the LDS church, but asexual Latter-day Saints face unique challenges.
It’s often assumed that people who identify as asexual are also ‘aromantic’ – that they aren’t interested in forming romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so.
Minority sexual identities are on average less satisfied with their lives — but being accepted is crucial to this.
Asexuality is less about a traditional understanding of sexual attraction and behaviour, and more about being able to discuss likes and dislikes in the early stages of a relationship.
Many people aren’t interested in having sex or don’t feel sexual attraction to other people. Is it normal to be like this?
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Senior Research Fellow in Maternal and Reproductive Health, University of Hull
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