Sexual Relationships 
Sexual Health 
This year, asexual awareness week is October 21-27, 2018.
What is an asexual?
Someone who never experiences sexual attraction and never has the intrinsic desire to have partnered sex.
Asexuality is not a lack of a sex drive
Many asexuals do masturbate, but they don't think about having sex with others or inherently desire to share sexual activity with others.
Asexuality is not celibacy
Celibates have the inherent desire to have sex with someone, but they choose not to act upon it. Asexuals don't have that inherent, primary desire.
Asexuality is not repression or a result of medical problems
Asexuality is not the result of sexually abuse, level of attractiveness, never having had good sex, getting out of a bad relationship, hormone deficiency, being a loner, not meeting the right person, depression, or etc. There are plenty of ugly people who are heterosexual. Most asexuals don't have a hormone deficiency from the last time they checked. Asexuals aren't repressing a sexual desire that doesn't exist. They aren't secretly homosexual and in denial. Many asexuals, including me, would've not repressed homosexual desires if we had any. Being a loner is irrelevant to sexual orientation. Sexual people don't "turn asexual" because of bad experiences, they only turn bitter.
Asexuality is not a mental disorder
Asexuality doesn't cause psychological distress to self or others, doesn't cause physical harm to self or others, doesn't break any laws, and isn't strongly frowned upon by society; so it's not a mental disorder according to DSM-5 standards.
Asexuals can have varying romantic orientations
There are romantic and aromantic asexuals. Romantic asexuals inherently desire a romantic relationship with another person but without the sex part. So it's possible for a straight person to not desire sex in a relationship. It's possible for a gay or bi person to not want sex in a relationship. Those people may have sex with their partners only for the secondary benefit of keeping their romantic partner.
What Girls & Guys Said
14 40There is not such thing as asexual. It's just another word for weird loser.
That's your opinion.
No shit
THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID.
I've never seen people make a big deal about asexuality. Unless it was compared with the LGBT community. Then I would see it shouldn't be added or the mental illness comments.
Asexuals are the panda bears of our societies, you just got to hug me a lot.
Nice
Asexuality is normal and goes back millennia, at least to the time of St. Paul where he talked about it as a gift for believers.
Thats an awesome take and it explains so much
lol what a bullshit orientation.
That's your opinion
Yep.
Good take
Quack
Real question: why should we care? No offense, that's a real question.
Asexuals are oppressed and only a humane person would care.
No they're not, no one cares about them at all. No one even knew they existed, if they do, until recently. And having a "week" won't make me care about them more. They're nothing special to me, no more than anyone else.
If no one cares, that's already a sign of oppression and erasure.
Nope, it's a sign that there is no problem. What do you want? Special treatment? People praising you for something you didn't even chose? You're just another human among billions of other humans, you're not superior, not really different, not special. Once you'll understand that, then you'll realize that no one treats you badly, and that what you're asking is privilege, not equality. You "week" is already a privilege.
There is a problem. Your attitude about this and many people have the same attitude towards this, some even worse, causes erasure and oppression in ways that you don't understand. I will write a myTake about the problems to discuss that. Asexuals are not treated equally as everyone else (ex. asexuals aren't given the same acceptance as heterosexuals). My week may look like a privilege to you, but it's not enough to fight off erasure and discrimination. I don't want special treatment out of this. I'm not saying I'm superior to everyone else. I don't want praise for something I didn't choose. I just want to be accepted and understood just like everyone else.
All that you said is just a whine of a spoiled brat. "Boohoo people don't recognize us and praise us a the special snowflakes we are". Well so fucking what? You're not special. You don't deserve to be recognized more than me or anyone else. You're just a person among billions of others.
I'm not saying it makes me special. I'm not asking to be recognized as an individual. I just want asexuality to be just as recognized as heterosexuality and homosexuality.
Polysexual = You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Things like this make me wonder if I am asexual.
Why fuck has this a week
Doesn't exist... Just like Santa, stop making excuses
It does exist and there are no excuses. Your opinion is wrong.
I'm asexual
Same
Incorrect. Asexuality is the ability to self reproduce reproduce (e. g. flat worms)
A human calling themselves asexual implies either a belief they are the reincarnation of the virgin Mary or a severe lack of understanding of etymology (the kind of lack of understanding that indicates one shouldn't be coming up with names for things)
Definitions can change and one word can have more than one meaning. Your point is null.
nice one
Bullshit and it only trivializes those who actually are unhappily alone or desire romantic/sexual companionship even more.
Sometimes I do wish that all countries in the modern west will break up so we can each have our own small areas of sovereignty among those of similar category.
It's not trivializing anyone. People who are unhappily alone usually find someone one day. In fact, they are more privileged than asexual people. If someone is unhappily alone and remains that way, then it looks like they need to lower their standards and their entitlement.
To be completelyltylyy honest