The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'. This unique volume collects a diverse range of interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical work which addresses this emergence, raising important and timely questions about asexuality and its broader implications for sexual culture. One of the most pressing and contentious issues within academic and public debates about asexuality is what relationship, if any, it has to sexual dysfunction. As well as collecting cutting edge scholarship in the emerging field of asexuality studies, rendering it indispensable to any sexualities course across the range of disciplines, this anthology also addresses this urgent debate, offering a variety of perspectives on how and why some have pathologised asexuality. This includes a range of chapters addressing the broader issues of sexual normativity within which these contemporary debates about asexuality are taking place.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Psychology and Sexuality.
This unique volume collects a range of cutting-edge scholarship relating to asexuality and the sexual community. It explores issues relating to the increasing high profile and politically active asexual community in terms of broader debates about sexual normativity and sexual dysfunction.
This book was originally published as a special is
Introduction Mark Carrigan, Kristina Gupta and Todd G. Morrison
1. Who
reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national
probability surveys Catherine R.H. Aicken, Catherine H. Mercer and Jackie A.
Cassell
2. Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified
asexual men and women Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto and Boris B. Gorzalka
3.
HSDD and asexuality: a question of instruments Jacinthe Flore
4. How is
asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder? Andrew
Hinderliter
5. Asexuality: from pathology to identity and beyond Randi
Gressgård
6. Sex as a normalising technology: early-twentieth-century public
sex education campaigns Elizabeth Stephens
7. The average and the normal in
nineteenth-century French medical discourse Peter Cryle
8. From pre-normal to
abnormal: the emergence of a concept in late eighteenth-century France
Caroline Warman
9. Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an
interdisciplinary method Ela Przybylo
10. A mystery wrapped in an enigma
asexuality: a virtual discussion C. J. Bishop
Mark Carrigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. For his dissertation, he is developing a critical realist approach to longitudinal qualitative research through an empirical case study of undergraduate students. His other research interests include asexuality, sexual culture and digital sociology.
Kristina Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, USA. For her dissertation, she is researching the intersections of feminist theory, asexuality, and scientific and medical research on sexual desire.
Todd G. Morrison is Associate Professor in the College of Arts & Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His primary research interests include gay and lesbian psychology; body image; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; psychometrics; and human sexuality (in particular, pornography and sex work).
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