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asexual erasure | Library.LGBT
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asexual erasure

the acts and attitudes of ignoring, removing or falsifying asexual and aromantic people and identity. In its most extreme form, this could be the belief that asexuality doesn’t exist, or is the result of people on the asexual spectrum being ‘broken’ or the result of a mental/sexual dysfunction, rather than as a legitimate, sexual orientation.

Erasure of asexual people is often the result of acephobia, even though it does not always involve overt antagonism; asexual erasure and invisibility inevitably has a detrimental effect on asexual people’s individual health and well-being.

Originally published: 10th December, 2020
Last modified: 10th December, 2020

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