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The present paper identifies and characterizes the asexual community of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In order to do so, it carries on a theoretical revision of the concept of asexuality, highlighting the most relevant contributions for its emerging study. Secondly, as asexual people mostly interact through virtual platforms, the chosen methodology is a virtual ethnography, combined with in-depth interviews. The objective is to highlight the specificity of a mainly virtual community. In the last place, the process of "politization" of the asexual community is developed, this one being oriented to the rest of the civil society and other groups of sexual diversity. ; O presente trabalho identifica e caracteriza a comunidade assexual do Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Para fazer isso, em primeiro lugar, faz uma revisão teórica do conceito de assexualidade, salientando as contribuições mais relevantes para o seu incipiente estudo. Em segundo lugar, como os assexuais se relacionam prioritariamente através de plataformas virtuais, a metodologia implementada é a de uma etnografia virtual, combinada com entrevistas em profundidade. Assim, o objetivo é mostrar a especificidade de uma comunidade forjada principalmente online. Por último, se desenvolve a politização da comunidade virtual assexual, orientada ao reconhecimento social do resto da sociedade civil e dos coletivos da diversidade sexual. ; El presente trabajo identifica y caracteriza a la comunidad asexual del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Para ello, en primer lugar, se lleva adelante una revisión teórica del concepto de asexualidad, destacando los aportes más relevantes para su incipiente estudio. En segundo lugar, como los asexuales se vinculan prioritariamente mediante plataformas virtuales, la metodología implementada es la de una etnografía virtual, combinándola con entrevistas en profundidad. Se busca, de este modo, dar cuenta de la especificidad de una comunidad forjada principalmente online. Por último, se desarrolla la politización de la comunidad asexual, orientada al reconocimiento social del resto de la sociedad civil y de los colectivos de diversidad sexual.

Under the frame of a doctoral thesis, regarding the appearing of the asexual identity in the social scene, this work investigates the main cultural factors that could have contributed to its start and development. An identity under construction, that it's being produced here and now, in the bosom of a virtual community, and that can't be unconnected with the opportunities that offer the Information and Communications Technologies. The social networks start to seem, this way, not only as a useful resource to get changes in the public politics, and not only as a key to find new forms of communication and knowledge, but as spaces in which can be generated and disseminated changes, even in the more intimate and personal aspects of the human being, as the sexuality, in whose normativeness has always taken root the "must-be" (that is the identity) of men and women. ; En el marco de una tesis doctoral a propósito de la aparición, en la escena social, de la nueva identidad asexual, el presente trabajo indaga en los principales factores socio-culturales que pueden haber incidido en su desarrollo. Una identidad que se elabora intersubjetivamente ante nuestros ojos en el seno de una comunidad virtual y a la que, por tanto, no le pueden ser ajenos factores como las posibilidades que ofrecen actualmente las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Las nuevas redes sociales comienzan así a mostrarse, no sólo como instrumentos útiles para impulsar algunos cambios en las políticas públicas, o no sólo como generadoras de nuevas formas de comunicación, conocimiento y saber, sino como espacios donde se elaboran y se transmiten cambios, incluso en los aspectos que parecerían más íntimos del ser humano, como la propia sexualidad, en cuya normatividad ha enraizado siempre el deber ser- esto es, la identidad- de mujeres y hombres.Under the frame of a doctoral thesis, regarding the appearing of the asexual identity in the social scene, this work investigates the main cultural factors that could have contributed to its start and development. An identity under construction, that it's being produced here and now, in the bosom of a virtual community, and that can't be unconnected with the opportunities that offer the Information and Communications Technologies. The social networks start to seem, this way, not only as a useful resource to get changes in the public politics, and not only as a key to find new forms of communication and knowledge, but as spaces in which can be generated and disseminated changes, even in the more intimate and personal aspects of the human being, as the sexuality, in whose normativeness has always taken root the "must-be" (that is the identity) of men and women.