Luke Gompertz

@asexuality-handbook.com

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Author of the Asexuality Handbook (https://www.asexuality-handbook.com/) and lead moderator of r/asexuality. Previously known as "@GlasgowAce" in the other place.

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A scan of a paragraph on a newspaper or magazine page. A title reads "SENSUALITY" under which there is one paragraph reading "As in the Asexual Manifesto, I knew that I liked, that I needed, physical contact with other humans. Since I took all sexual conotations out of this, I picked up on the concept of sensuality; simply enjoying physical pleasure in one's body."

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Scan of a magazine reading: It would be a lot easier to refute these messages, to say, "I am what I am and there's nothing wrong with it," if we asexuals had the help of a support group such as lesbians and gay men have. The problem is that asexuals don't organize to support each other; most of us are ashamed to admit our situation even to close friends, let alone march up Fifth Avenue shouting it to the world. And yet how much more we need this support, how good it would be if we could have it!

A two-dimensional grid divided into four quadrants. The quadrants are labelled (clockwise from top-left): "HOMOSEXUALS", "BISEXUALS", "HETEROSEXUALS", "ASEXUALS". The y-axis is labelled "HOMO-EROTICISM" and the x-axis is labelled "HETERO-EROTICISM". The figure is captioned "Four orientation categories generated by a two-dimensional model."