Mniejszość w mniejszości. Jak aseksualność wzbogaca myślenie o ludzkiej seksualności

Olga Żukowicz

doi:10.21697/ucs.2021.28.2.05

Published: 2022-04-06

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2021)

Minority within minority. How asexuality enriches the thinking of human sexuality

Olga Żukowicz

Academic Journal of Sociology

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2021.28.2.05

Abstract

The definitions of sexuality, as well as the implicit assumptions that everyone experiences sexual attraction and desire, have left asexuals’ experiences and rights still not fully respected. Therefore, it has led to the growing number of myths around asexuality and seeing it as a disorder. There is still no consensus among researchers as to whether asexuality should be considered a sexual orientation or its lack, which may have an impact on the invisibility and alienation of this group even in LGBTQIAP+ communities. The aim of this article is to decisively depathologize asexuality and morally, to clearly distinguish it from sexual abstinence or disorders of desire based on the research and testimonies of asexual people to date. Above all, however, the author tries to answer the question of how the experience of asexuality broadens thinking about human sexuality in general. Recognizing asexuality as a lack of sexual attraction to other people – regardless of gender, I would also like to show the diversity of romantic and sexual biographies. The stories were taken from the Polish forum of The Asexual Network Education.

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asexuality, sexual orientation, sexual minority, attraction, sex-drive

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Żukowicz, O. (2022). Minority within minority. How asexuality enriches the thinking of human sexuality. Academic Journal of Sociology, 28(2), 31–39. https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2021.28.2.05

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