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'''Absexual''' is a [[neologism]] introduced by [[Carol Queen]] (cofounder of [[San Francisco]]’s [[Center for Sex and Culture]]) for consideration for inclusion in the [[American Psychiatric Association]]'s [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]] ([[DSM-V]] - fifth edition) (currently under development, set to be released in 2013);<ref>[http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24664654 What's ‘normal’ sex? Shrinks seek definition. Controversy erupts over creation of psychiatric rule book's new edition] by [[Brian Alexander]] of [[MSNBC]]. May 22, 2008.</ref> it is not currently an official psychiatric term. Based on its prefix [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ab- ab-], it describes a form of [[Human sexuality|sexuality]] where someone is stimulated by moving away from sexuality. An example would be a person who promotes [[abstinence]] fervently while getting excited by that, or also through contradictory behaviour where they act in the opposite way in private, contrary to what they promote publicly. In this way, absexuality can be described as a sex-related subset of [[reaction formation]]. |
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The term was first used in Queen's "Dirty Pictures, Heavy Breathing, Moral Outrage, and the New Absexuality," which appears in her ''Real Live Nude Girl'' anthology:<ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1573440736 Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-positive Culture]. Carol Queen, Cleis Press 2007.</ref> {{cquote|These disparate anti-porn, anti-gay activists unite in the particular form their relationship to sexuality takes.… Their voyeuristic, judgemental peeping on other forms of sex is, in fact, these peoples' sexual orientation.}} [[Betty Dodson]] defined the term as describing "folks who get off complaining about sex and trying to censor porn."<ref>[http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=1&STORY_ID=2952&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2 An interview with the Mother of Masturbation, Betty Dodson] by [[Diane Walsh]] of [[Xtra!]] in [[Vancouver]]. Monday, April 30, 2007</ref> |
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The term has also been used to refer to [[feminism]] in the 1980s, calling it a "[[neo-Victorian]] absexual [[orthodoxy]]" and criticizing its association of [[pornography]] with social ills including abuse, [[addiction]], and [[hate speech]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jRN38BmzsH8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA59&dq=Absexual&ots=kdPUPlt6QS&sig=q1umxB4SA5HDKNXB-X3mowPbomw#PPA79,M1 Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Sandra Liu, ''Countervisions'', Temple University Press, 2000, p. 79-81.]</ref> |
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