ATTITUDES
Celibacy: the choice to abstain from all sexual activity, regardless of attraction. Celibacy is not the same as asexuality. Celibacy is a behaviour and a choice, not an orientation.
Sex favourability: someone who may engage in sexual activity even if they do not have any desire for sexual activity, for example to please a partner.
Sex indifference: someone who is neutral towards engaging in sexual activity.
Sex repulsion: a personal aversion towards engaging in sexual activity. Someone who is sex repulsed is not necessarily sex negative.
Sex negativity: a moral aversion towards sexual activity as a whole, regardless of one's own participation or abstinence from sexual activity.
Sex positivity: harbouring positive attitudes towards sex, regardless of one's own desire or lack of desire for sexual activity.
Touch aversion: a desire not to be touched by people, or to touch others, and/or a repulsion to touch. This is often relating to sexual touch, but can be any kind of touch.
CONCEPTS
Ace/aro erasure: the denial that asexuality and/or aromanticism is real, and the invisibility and lack of representation of asexuality and aromanticism. Examples include dismissing, ignoring, or trying to explain away asexuality/aromanticism.
Acephobia/arophobia/Aphobia: any negative attitude towards asexuality, aromanticism, and asexual or aromantic people, including prejudice, hate, bullying, and erasure.
Amatonormativity: the assumption or insistence that romantic relationships are the norm and should be the ultimate goal in life for everyone, and that these relationships are more intrinsically valuable than other relationships.
AVEN: the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network, the largest online ace community with lots of forums and information.
Compulsory sexuality: the assumption that everyone experiences sexual attraction, and that everyone should desire sex and partake in it. Compulsory sexuality puts (usually heterosexual) relationships at the centre of the ideal human experience. It also includes the idea that romantic relationships must include sexual activity. Closely related to amatonormativity.
Heteronormativity: the assumption that heterosexuality and heteroromanticism are the norm.
Playing cards: some asexual people have taken up the abbreviation 'ace' and matched different playing cards to various ace identities, and use these playing cards to describe themselves in a kind of slang. The ace of hearts represents romantic asexuals, the ace of spades represents aromantic asexuals, the ace of diamonds represents demi and grey asexuals, and the ace of clubs represents questioning people on the ace/aro spectrum. This has been criticised by some as not inclusive of people whose identities do not fit into these four categories.
EVENTS
Ace Day: since 2015 Ace Visibility Day was taken up by the ace community as a day for posting photos and graphics of their ace playing cards on social media to spread visibility. It has been criticised by some as being too close to Trans Day of Visibility and Blackout. It has since been moved to 26 November.
Asexual Awareness Week: an annual event, usually occurring in late October, which celebrates the ace spectrum and aims to promote visibility and understanding of the community.
Aromantic Awareness Week: a similar event which falls in February (intentionally around Valentine's Day!) and aims to highlight the aromantic spectrum.
http://www.oulgbtq.org/acearo-spectrum-definitions.html
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