1: Introduction
2: The A, B, C, and Ds of Sex (and Asex)
3: History of Asexuality
4: The Prevalence of Asexuality
5: To Masturbate or Not to Masturbate
6: Sex and Gender
7: Forging an (A)sexual Identity
8: The Madness of Sex
9: Do You Have Hypoactive Skydiving Disorder?
10: A Monster in All Our Lives
11: Art and Food on Planet Sex
12: (A)sexuality and Humor
13: Just Because
14: The Beginning
Bibliography
Anthony Bogaert is professor of community health sciences and psychology at Brock University. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, along with book chapters, on such topics as asexuality, sexual desire, sexual orientation, birth order and sexual identity, and other related topics.
Essential reading for anyone who wants to explore how asexuality is
transforming our understanding of sex.
*David Jay, founder of Asexual Visibility and Education Network
(AVEN)*
Despite an adaptationist flavor, Understanding Asexuality is a
thoughtful, nuanced, and even paradigm-changing book.
*Maurine Neiman, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Biology,
University of Iowa*
[This] work is extremely well received.
*Epoch Times*
Asexuality is a sexual orientation that is often overlooked; it has
garnered little attention from the scientific community compared to
other sexual orientations. Queer theorists especially would benefit
from familiarizing themselves with asexuality because it challenges
heteronormative norms and, like people of other minority sexual
orientations, asexual people are faced with oppression and
systematic erasure. It is of no small importance that Understanding
Asexuality is the first academic book published on the topic. In
this book, Anthony F. Bogaert, a professor of human sexuality,
delivers an important theoretical introduction to asexuality for
scholars and the general public, as well as asexuals themselves.
There is an informal and conversational tone to the book that makes
it accessible to all these audiences, while still being
professional in its discussion of the extant, if sparse, research.
. . .Understanding Asexuality is a solid theoretical introduction
to asexuality that provides ample material on which to build future
research.
*QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking*
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