How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder?

Hinderliter, Andrew C.

doi:10.1080/19419899.2013.774165

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“…"Hypoactive sexual desire disorder" (HSDD) is characterized by the DSM as a deficiency or absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity that causes distress or interpersonal difficulty (Brotto, 2010;Prause & Graham, 2007). This entry in the DSM has become controversial as it imposes a pathology onto asexual individuals and assumes that "normal" or healthy sexual functioning necessitates sexual desire and sexual fantasies (Flore, 2013;Hinderliter, 2013). Asexual individuals have challenged the idea that they qualify for an HSDD diagnosis, arguing that people with HSDD continue to experience sexual attraction, whereas asexual people do not (Brotto et al, 2010).…”

Section: From Pathology To Identitymentioning

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“…Asexual individuals have challenged the idea that they qualify for an HSDD diagnosis, arguing that people with HSDD continue to experience sexual attraction, whereas asexual people do not (Brotto et al, 2010). Researchers have argued that asexual individuals do not meet the DSM's criteria for HSDD because their lack of sexual desire does not cause "distress," which asexual discourses also reflect (Bishop, 2013;Hinderliter, 2013). Furthermore, data measuring women's vaginal pulse amplitude (VPA) and self-reported arousal to erotic stimuli has suggested that asexual women have the same capacity for sexual arousal as other women, challenging the idea that asexuality is equivalent to sexual dysfunction (Brotto & Yule, 2011).…”

Section: From Pathology To Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather, asexual people simply have no interest in sexual activity (Brotto et al, 2010). Medicalized, pathologizing narratives that explain non-heterosexualities as either disorders of sexual desire or responses to sexual trauma are not unique to asexuality (Cvetkovich, 2003;Hinderliter, 2013). The history of homosexuality is also strongly characterized by violence under the guise of medicalization, which continues today in the form of conversion therapy (Waidzunas, 2015).…”

Section: From Pathology To Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families

Carroll

2020

LGBTQ-Parent Families

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Asexuality, most often defined as a lack of sexual attraction, has emerged as a relatively new sexual identity category, and very little research has yet to explore asexual families and parenting. In this chapter, I review the literature on asexuality and its implications for parenting research and LGBTQ-parent families. First, I explain the meanings of asexuality through a review of its competing definitions and the evolving vocabulary of sexual and romantic dispositions within the asexual community. I also examine the methodological issues that have made asexuality especially difficult to research and the growth of asexuality as an identity movement in resistance to pathologizing narratives of sexual dysfunction. Next, I examine intersections between asexuality and gender, race, class, and disability, with critical attention toward the relationship between asexuality and the broader LGBTQ umbrella. I then review existing knowledge of asexual individuals' experiences of parenting, intimate relationships, and marginalization. Practitioners are urged to consider the validity of many types of intimacy as research on asexual parenting can further societal understandings of diverse expressions of love and family formation.

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Section: From Pathology To Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Pathology To Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Pathology To Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families

Carroll

2020

LGBTQ-Parent Families

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“…Although academics continue exploring where and how to separate asexuality from HSDD (e.g. Gazzola & Morrison, ), Hinderliter () discussed how asexuality and HSDD are two different kinds of concepts with different histories and purposes. Specifically, asexuality was created by and for people building a community about shared experience.…”

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Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance

Chasin

2014

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Despite some increased visibility in recent years, the asexual community and asexuality generally remain largely unknown. Aiming to demystify asexuality, this paper discusses the context of antiasexual animosity in which the (largely American) asexual community is situated. Specifically, the asexual community constructed itself in response to hostility, including explicit anti-asexual discrimination, homophobia against asexual people perceived to be lesbian or gay, and the negative impact of (implicit) pathologising low sexual desire. This theoretical paper outlines some of the unique challenges asexual people face negotiating identities and relationships; the collective sense-making strategies they use (generating language and discourse) to do so; and why these things are central to understanding asexual people's experiences. This is accomplished through a purposeful review of literature and a case study of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as an asexual community space. Understanding the challenges asexual people face and the resources they invoke to overcome them helps applied psychologists develop the cultural competence they need to work effectively with the asexual people they will encounter. ).An estimated 1% of people do not experience sexual attraction (Bogaert, 2004)-people who might or might not self-identify as asexual (or even know about asexuality). Unfortunately, awareness of asexuality is still extremely limited, and asexual people have therefore relied on the internet to find and build asexual community. As I will explain, the asexual community includes members who do not self-identify as 'asexual' per se. Consequently, the term 'ace' is sometimes used to be more inclusive, yet others do not feel represented by this colloquialism. Therefore, I will refer to the diverse community of people on the asexual spectrum as the asexual/ace community. This paper is a theoretical article grounded in both published literature and a case study of asexual/ace community surrounding AVEN, which was chosen for its extreme size and notability compared with other centralised asexual/ace community spaces. I explore this asexual/ace community from a broadly ecologically informed perspective-namely accepting that people and their actions exist in a multi-dimensional context, and 'make sense' only within that context (Kelly, 1987). Significantly, the focus on AVEN situates this discussion within a largely American-informed social context. Also, this paper does not address race because AVEN's asexual/ace community adopts a race-neutral stance (i.e. race is absent from AVEN's information about asexuality, and many AVEN members explicitly endorse race-neutral and 'colour-blind' discourses, e.g. Owen, 2012). However, many asexual/ace community members do discuss race and racism as central to their asexuality-finding/creating safe(r) places to do that outside of AVEN (e.g. asexual blogs and tumblr 3 ).This paper outlines some of the unique challenges asexual/ace people face negotiating identities and relationship...

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“…Hinderliter é também autor de outros três textos postados em seu site (s/d) e publicou neste ano outro artigo em um dossiê temático sobre sexualidade que foi organizado para um número da Psychology & Sexuality (Hinderliter, 2013). Aqui, como em seus textos anteriores, não se desenvolve uma reflexão propriamente linguística, área de conhecimento do autor.…”

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A emergência da assexualidade: notas sobre política sexual, ethos científico e o desinteresse pelo sexo

Brigeiro

2013

Sex., Salud Soc. (Rio J.)

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Este artigo trata da emergência da assexualidade. Com base em uma etnografia de comunidades virtuais conformadas por sujeitos autodenominados assexuais e também de artigos que vêm sendo publicados em periódicos acadêmicos a respeito, analiso a conjugação entre política sexual e produção de conhecimento. Os nexos entre as formulações elaboradas por as-sexuais e as que são realizadas por representantes do campo científico-acadêmico estão entre os aspectos mais idiossincráticos e instigantes dessa emergência. Como uma espécie de dobradiça, o encadeamento mencionado deixa ver os atravessamentos e as preocupações que se configuram atualmente em torno do tema do desinteresse pelo sexo. Busca-se também entender como argumentos e conceitos migram, se desterritorializam e reterritorializam, constituindo-se em meio a tais movimentos e interações. No caso analisado, as agendas de ativismo e de avanço da ciência não só confluem, como parecem em certos momentos confundirem-se. Os resultados permitem uma reflexão sobre o ethos científico, sua importância não somente para o campo de estudos sobre sexo, como também para grupos marginalizados em face do ideal de democracia sexual, além de indicar certa fluidez das fronteiras entre leigos e peritos nesse campo de conhecimento.

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How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder?

Cited by 43 publications

References 13 publications

Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families

Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families

Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance

A emergência da assexualidade: notas sobre política sexual, ethos científico e o desinteresse pelo sexo

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