Abstract
Asexual individuals-people who experience little or no sexual attraction to individuals of any sex or gender-comprise approximately 1% of the population but are often left out, medicalized, and dehumanized in both sexual and gender majority and minority spaces. This chapter introduces the concepts of asexuality and the asexual spectrum and discusses key forms of violence and marginalization that asexual individuals experience: medicalization and pathologizing of asexuality, isolation and erasure, and unwanted sexual experiences and corrective rape. The importance of validation and intersectionality in working with asexual individuals is also discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Violence Against LGBTQ+ Persons |
| Subtitle of host publication | Research, Practice, and Advocacy |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 179-183 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030526122 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030526115 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 9 Nov 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Asexual
- Asexuality
- Corrective rape
- Erasure
- Interpersonal violence
- Isolation
- Marginalization
- Medicalization
- Sexual assault
