asexuality

(And it’s rarely been used to refer to asexual people; most asexuals are either male or female, since asexuality is a sexual orientation, not a gender identity.) “It” is not an option, not because “it” does not have a tradition of application to humans, but because it DOES have a tradition of application to humans – ones the speaker wants to discount and marginalize.

Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009

He has labeled it as asexuality, which is fine-that's as good a description as any.

MetaFilter Projects 2008

It doesn't imply a value judgement of the proclivity to admit candidly that these are deviancies, and so-called "asexuality" is even more deviant, even more fundamentally at odds with basic human norms far more so than the two just listed.

"It's hard to imagine what would push me to having sex. I'm not afraid of sex, it's just not something I want to do." Ann Althouse 2009

If lack of desire for activities like that are the definition of "asexuality" used to come up with the 19% figure, well, that makes sense, but it actually has very little to do with sexual attraction per se, and everything to do with the circumstances surrounding it.

"It's hard to imagine what would push me to having sex. I'm not afraid of sex, it's just not something I want to do." Ann Althouse 2009

Gibber on though the fans may about Morrissey's "asexuality," however, his most shocking songs are the ones that traffic in heteroerotic imagery.

City Journal 2009

So the question I'm left with here is this: Is "asexuality" a biological condition, in the way (I, at least, am convinced) heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality are?

MetaFilter Projects 2008

The Vatican's positions on sexuality have the effect of rendering sex itself even in marriage appear, if not intrinsically unholy, then at least far less holy than celibacy, abstention or asexuality.

Michele Somerville: A Pro-Life Prayer On The Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade Michele Somerville 2011

As you know, this is quoted from the BBC breakfast news interview that involved asexuality.

Oh, how cool is that?!? A tidbit about Bernard Cribbins rabid1st 2009

The Vatican's positions on sexuality have the effect of rendering sex itself even in marriage appear, if not intrinsically unholy, then at least far less holy than celibacy, abstention or asexuality.

Michele Somerville: A Pro-Life Prayer On The Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade Michele Somerville 2011

This fetishization of asexuality gives way to an imperious and isolated priesthood, an aloof caste of men whose holiness is far too greatly predicated upon the choice not to have sex.

Michele Somerville: Sex and the City of God, Part 2: Celibacy and Sexuality in the Catholic Church Michele Somerville 2010