Asexuality remains widely misunderstood. Here’s what it means and how this sexuality became a social movement.
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Recent years have put more attention on LGBTQ people’s struggle for acceptance in the LDS church, but asexual Latter-day Saints face unique challenges.
It’s often assumed that people who identify as asexual are also ‘aromantic’ – that they aren’t interested in forming romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so.
Minority sexual identities are on average less satisfied with their lives — but being accepted is crucial to this.
Singles can face mistaken stereotypes and value judgments that they are less happy, or lonelier. For many, being single is simply a relationship preference or even an orientation.
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Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
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PhD Researcher in Sexual Orientation and Well-being, Swansea University
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Ph.D. Student of Communication, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Communication, Arizona State University
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Research Associate, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
