Asexuality is Not Celibacy - It's a Sexual Orientation that Must Be Respected and Explored

Sexuality is a gray area. Why can't a girl prefer the touch of another woman; why must she only enjoy the charms a man hides beneath his clothes? Sure. It seems logical - the girl has a space there and the guy has a peg. Nature obviously meant for those two parts to work together somehow. But as humanity grows more civilized, we also learn that we don't have to follow "human nature." We can rise above it.

We've already begun to accept that homosexuality isn't a choice someone makes. It's part of their biology and part of their pyschology. Just as a heterosexual man is hormone-drawn to women, a homosexual man's chemicals tell him, "Hey! Look at that cute guy over there!"

And we're also willing to accept that transgendered individuals aren't just people with really confusing childhoods. Perhaps they truly do belong in different physical forms. As spirituality grows in global popularity, more than ever humanity can see that it's true nature of a person that matters and not what's between their legs.  As time passes society's view of sexuality is slowly becoming more undefined.

So in this evolving world of understanding and compassion for individuals of all sexual preference, I would like to inform you all about another kind of sexual orientation: None at all. 

Clearly not enough media is being made for asexual individuals. Many campuses have a GSA (Gay-Straight-Alliance), but I'd never heard of asexuality as a valid sexuality "option" until I happened to stumble across a website one day: The Asexuality Visibility and Education Network (AVEN).

What exactly does it mean to be "asexual"? Ironically, I was asexual for years and just assumed that I was broken or somehow psychologically scarred. The thought of being truly asexual didn't occur to me. "Maybe I'm just a lesbian," I thought and tried to date girls. "Maybe I need medicine to give my hormones a kick."