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"Sometimes called "A Fourth Orientation", asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by a persistent lack of sexual attraction toward any gender. This book explores love, sex, and life, from the asexual point of view. This book is for anyone, regardless of orientation. Whether you're asexual, think you might be, know someone who is, or just want to learn more about what asexuality is (and isn't), there's something inside for you"--Page 4 of cover

Lambda Literary Award 2014 Finalist in LGBT Nonfiction Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award 2014 Finalist in Family & Relationships Independent Publisher Book Awards 2015 (IPPY) Silver Medal in Sexuality/Relationships Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2015 Winner in LGBT -- What if you weren't sexually attracted to anyone? A growing number of people are identifying as asexual. They aren't sexually attracted to anyone, and they consider it a sexual orientation--like gay, straight, or bisexual. Asexuality is the invisible orientation. Most people believe that "everyone" wants sex, that "everyone" understands what it means to be attracted to other people, and that "everyone" wants to date and mate. But that's where asexual people are left out--they don't find other people sexually attractive, and if and when they say so, they are very rarely treated as though that's okay. When an asexual person comes out, alarming reactions regularly follow; loved ones fear that an asexual person is sick, or psychologically warped, or suffering from abuse. Critics confront asexual people with accusations of following a fad, hiding homosexuality, or making excuses for romantic failures. And all of this contributes to a discouraging master narrative: there is no such thing as "asexual." Being an asexual person is a lie or an illness, and it needs to be fixed. In The Invisible Orientation, Julie Sondra Decker outlines what asexuality is, counters misconceptions, provides resources, and puts asexual people's experiences in context as they move through a very sexualized world. It includes information for asexual people to help understand their orientation and what it means for their relationships, as well as tips and facts for those who want to understand their asexual friends and loved ones.

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing on the knowledge generated by asexual community, activism, and scholarship, Ela Przybylo gives us the first queer and feminist monograph on asexuality.

Intro -- I Am Ace -- Cover -- Of related interest -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Asexuality and You -- 1. What Is Asexuality? Understanding Orientation -- 2. What Is Asexuality? Understanding Attraction -- 3. What Kind of Asexual Am I? -- 4. But Am I Really Asexual? -- Part II: Asexuality and Others -- 5. How Do I Come Out as Asexual? -- 6. How Do I Deal with Microaggressions? -- 7. Asexuality and Relationships: Can I Have Them and What Kind Can I Have? -- 8. Asexuality and Relationships: Negotiating Intimacy with Your Partner -- Part III: Asexuality and the World -- 9. Asexuality and the Queer Community -- 10. Ace in the World -- 11. Finding Your Ace Joy -- One Last Thing… -- Additional Resources -- Index.

Introduction: Erotics and asexuality: thinking asexuality, unthinking sex -- The erotics of feminist revolution: political celibacies/asexualities in the women's movement -- Lesbian bed death, asexually: an erotics of failure -- Growing into asexuality: the queer erotics of childhood -- Erotics of excess and the aging spinster -- Epilogue: Tyrannical celibacy: the anti-erotics of misogyny and white supremacy.

pt. 1. Theorizing asexuality : new orientations -- pt. 2. The politics of asexuality -- pt. 3. Visualizing asexuality in media culture -- pt. 4. Asexuality and masculinity -- pt. 5. Health, disability, and medicalization -- pt. 6. Reading asexually : asexual literary theory.

Intro -- SEXUAL MINORITY RESEARCH IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- SEXUAL MINORITY RESEARCH IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITORS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- "HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED IT?" ASEXUAL AGENCY AND THE SEXUAL ASSUMPTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING ASEXUALITY -- METHOD -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- Asexual Agency -- FRIENDS AND PEERS -- FAMILY -- ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS -- The Sexuality Assumption -- Limitations -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ASEXUALITY: AN EMERGENT SEXUAL ORIENTATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ASEXUALITY DEFINED -- ASEXUALITY AS A SEXUAL ORIENTATION -- COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF ASEXUALS -- ASEXUAL INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETY -- CONCLUSIONS -- METHOD -- Participants -- Measures -- Procedure -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- CONTEXTUAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDBEARING DECISIONS AMONG LESBIAN COUPLES PLANNING A FAMILY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHICH ONE WILL BIRTH THE CHILD? -- Anonymous or Known Donor? -- METHOD -- Participants -- Procedure -- Quantitative Measures: Individual Characteristics -- Quantitative Measures: Dyadic Characteristics -- Quantitative Measures: Social Network Characteristics -- Qualitative Measures -- Analytical Strategy -- RESULTS -- Individual Characteristics -- DYADIC CHARACTERISTICS -- Social Network Characteristics -- Legal and Cultural Context Surrounding Choice of Donor Type -- DISCUSSION -- Individual Characteristics -- Dyadic Characteristics -- Social Network Characteristics -- Legal Uncertainty -- Study Limitations -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF GAY FATHERHOOD IN ALBERTA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Same-Sex Marriage and Same-Sex Parenting -- Prevalence of Same-Sex Parenting -- Gay Fatherhood.

"Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher

"The landscape of trauma is scattered with ghosts. Wolves hunkering in the shadows. Memory's spectral persistence and evasion. Leaky bodies and selves gathered up in the storm of pain. Genders imposed and genders made. History's cruel excisions, scars, the spillage of wounds. A landscape in which we are nevertheless called to build home. Here, "storytelling is a kind of suturing."

Combining memoir, lyrical essay, and cultural criticism, KJ Cerankowski's Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming stitches together an embodied history of trauma and its ongoing impacts on the lived realities of trans, queer, and other marginalized subjects. Suture is a conjuration, a patchwork knitting of ghost stories attending to the wound as its own archive. It is a journey through many "transitions": of gender; through illness and chronic pain; from childhood to adulthood and back again; of psyche and form in the wake of abuse and through the work of healing; and of the self, becoming in and through the ongoingness of settler colonial violence and its attendant subjugations of diverse forms of life.

Refusing a traditional binary-based gender transition narrative, as well as dominant psychoanalytic narratives of trauma that center an individual process of symptom, diagnosis, and cure, Suture explores the refractive nature of trauma's dispersed roots and lingering effects. If the wounds of trauma are disquiet apparitions—repetitions within the cut—these stories tend the seams through which the simultaneous loneliness of mourning and togetherness of queer intersubjective relations converge. Across these essays, healing, and indeed living, is a state of perpetual becoming, surviving, and loving, in the nonlinearities of trauma time, body-time, and queer time."

'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality and asexuality. Concepts on sexuality and gender are outlined anew in an interplay of theoretical and clinical networks, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of analytic praxis freed from prejudice and monolithic convention.' Alcira Mariam Alizade from the Foreword

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Abstinence -- The Rise of Abstinence Education -- Celibate Feminisms -- Sexual Choice and Asexuality -- Notes -- 2. Adolescence -- Normative Roots: The Emergence of Adolescence as a Developmental Category -- Undoing Adolescence: Problematizing Adolescence as a Distinct Developmental Period -- An Unsustainable Fiction -- Notes -- 3. Age -- Regulations -- Desires -- Notes -- 4. Animals -- Bestiality -- Breeding