Searchable Bibliography

Our searchable bibliography will allow you to browse and easily find a list of curated sources pertaining to aromanticism, asexuality, and its related subject matters. To maximize the relevancy of the search results, these are our recommended steps to using the bibliography.

  1. Select the tags you are interested in the advanced filters such as affect, adolescence. Tags were manually assigned by our research team to each resource to ensure they are relevant.
  2. If you want to further specify your search results, you can also select the category (article, book chapter, etc.) and type of resource (academic or community).
  3. Search up the term you are looking for in the search bar. Your results will be filtered based on the tags, category, and type you've selected.
  4. You can also check and uncheck different types of information you want to see in the table such as Press, Disciple, Editors, etc.
  5. Additionally, Boolean Search functionalities are also available incuding AND, OR, NOT, Parentheses (), Quotation Marks "", Question Mark "?" and Asterisk "*". You can read more about these operators here.

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AuthorsTitleYearTags
Nikki Hayfield, Thom Winter-Gray"Can I be a kinky ace?": How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes2021aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; BDSM; definitions; fantasies; fetish; intersectionality; kink; masturbation; qualitative methods
Donna M. Mandigo, Louis F. KavarThe Asexual Male Experience: A Phenomenological Inquiry2022allosexual; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; definitions; friendship; gender; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masculinity; masturbation; otherness; platonic; psychology; qualitative methods; queerplatonic; relationships; romantic; self-identification; split attraction
Anna KurowickaThe Queer Identity for the Twenty-First Century? An Exploration of Asexuality2015a-fluidity; asexual; autism; AVEN; categorization; coming out; community; essentialism; feminism; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masturbation; media; pathologization; psychology; queer; romantic; sexusociety
Elisabetta RuspiniAsexual Women and Men: Living without Sex2013asexual; AVEN; coming out; HSDD; identity; intimacy; masturbation; reproduction; sexusociety
Elisabetta RuspiniAsexual Women and Men: Living without Sex2013asexual; AVEN; coming out; HSDD; identity; intimacy; masturbation; reproduction; sexusociety
Lily HughesThe Presence of Absence: Asexuality and the Creation of Resistance2011asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; community; gender; history; masturbation; online community; queer theory; romantic; sexual liberation; visibility
Aoife SadlierEvoking the Female 'Asexual'2019asexual; erotics; gender; identity; masturbation; queer; queer theory; romantic; silence
Myra T. JohnsonAsexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups1977asexual; celibacy; feminism; masturbation; pathologization; religion; reproduction; sexual liberation; virginity
Daniel Copulsky, Phillip H. HammackAsexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality: Distinctions in Desire, Behavior, and Identity2021aromantic; aromantic spectrum; asexual; asexual continuum; demisexuality; gender; gray-asexuality; identity; masturbation; relationships; romantic; self-identification; split attraction
sydney khooFree Toy Included2017adolescence; aromantic; asexual; Asian; celibacy; dating; demisexuality; family; fanfic; food; kink; love; marriage; masturbation; orgasm; relationships; religion; sex
The Ace CoupleAsexual Representation- The Most Banned Book, Gender Queer: A Memoir2023asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; comics; fandom; fanfic; fantasies; gender; masturbation
Angela ChenPlating with Others: Chapter from Ace2020allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; community; consent; intimacy; kink; marriage; masturbation; monogamy; nonmonogamy; polyamory; relationships; sex; sexusociety