Presentation slides for Asexuality workshop. This was done for CUQSC 2013 held in St. John's NFLD.

1. No Sex Please
Asexuality 101
Olivia Cheong
NO SEX PLEASE: ASEXUALITY
OLIVIA CHEONG
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2. Definition
Spectrum of Sexuality
Myths and Misconceptions
WHO ARE ASEXUAL?
Asexual History
Sexual/Romantic Attraction
SEXUALITY
Coming out
Challenging Relationships
HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
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3. WHO ARE ASEXUAL?
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4. Lack of sexual attraction
ASEXUALITY
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Lack of interest in sexual
relations with other people
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5. ASEXUAL
GRAY-AS
DEMISEXUAL
SEXUAL
COMMUNITY
SPECTRUM OF
SEXUALITY
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6. Asexuality is being sexless
...Yup, still there.
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7. Asexuality is celibacy
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8. Asexuality is sex negativity
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9. Asexuality is a result of trauma
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10. Asexuality is being incapable of love
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11. SEXUALITY
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12. No socio-sexual contacts or reactions
Kinsey, 1948
Lack of sexual orientation
Storms, 1980
Lack of sexual behaviour
Rothblum & Brehony, 1993
Lack of sexual attraction
Bogaert, 2004
Low excitatory processes
Prause & Graham, 2007
FIVE
DEFINITIONS
FOR ASEXUALITY
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13. No socio-sexual contacts or reactions
Kinsey, 1948
Able to estimate someone’s
sexual responses / inclinations
at any given time.
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14. Based off of Kinsey’s scale
Two dimensional model
Lack of sexual orientation
Storms, 1980
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15. Asexuals: engaged in none or few sexual behaviours
Administered a survey to 1 146 (41 self-identified asexual)
Used scales of sexual excitation (arousability, sexual desire)
and sexual inhibition
Low sexual excitation.
Little to no difference in sexual inhibition scale
Lack of sexual behaviour
Rothlum & Brehony, 1993
Low excitatory processes
Prause & Graham, 2007
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16. Asexuality: prevalence and associated factors in a national
probability sample
Journal of Sex Research, 2004
18 000 responses; 195 asexual
“I have never felt sexually attracted
to someone at all.”
Recent research on self-identified asexuals
(Prause & Graham, 2007; Brotto et al.,
2010) shows that they do not necessarily
have a lower desire for sexual activity, but
they clearly have a lower desire for sexual
activity with others..."
Lack of sexual attraction
Bogaert, 2004
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17. Romantic
Sexual
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18. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
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19. COMING OUT
WHY BOTHER?
You’re too young/pretty/naive to be asexual
Have you tried it? If you don’t like it, you’re
not doing it right.
Were you abused? Are you sure you
weren’t?
You’re just a prude.
You just haven’t met Mr./Ms. Right yet.
You just haven’t been with me yet.
It’s just a phase.
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20. TWO STORIES
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21. THINGS TO
THINK ABOUT
Relationship structures
What does it mean to love someone?
Friendship/Romantic
Vocabulary
Forms of affection
Female/Male sexuality
Compromise / “Enthusiastic” consent
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22. QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
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