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=== Feminist research ===
TheBidang fieldkajian ofaseksualitas asexualitymasih studiesmuncul issebagai stillturunan emergingdari asbidang ayang subsetlebih ofluas the broader field ofmengenai [[gender and sexuality studies|kajian gender dan seksualitas]]. NotablePara researcherspeneliti whoterkemuka haveyang producedtelah significantmenghasilkan workskarya insignifikan asexualitydalam studieskajian aseksualitas includedi antaranya[[KJ Cerankowski]], Ela Przybylo, anddan CJ DeLuzio Chasin.
ASebuah 2010naskah paperyang writtenditulis tahun 2010 byoleh KJ Cerankowski anddan Megan Milks, titledberjudul ''New Orientations: Asexuality and Its Implications for Theory and Practice'', suggestsmengemukakan thatbahwa asexualityaseksualitas maymungkin beserupa somewhatpertanyaan oftersendiri auntuk question in itself for the studies ofkajian gender anddan sexualityseksualitas.<ref name="Hultquist">{{cite book|author1=Aleksondra Hultquist|author2=Elizabeth J. Mathews|title=New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text|isbn=978-1317196921|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2016|page=123|access-date=January 4, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDGTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT123|archive-date=September 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923043758/https://books.google.com/books?id=lDGTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT123|url-status=live}}</ref> Cerankowski anddan Milks haveberpendapat suggestedbahwa thataseksualitas asexualitymenimbulkan raiseslebih manybanyak morelagi questionspertanyaan thandari ityang resolvestelah dijawabnya, suchseperti asbagaimana howseseorang adapat personpuasa couldberhubungan abstain from having sexseks, which is generally acceptedyang bysecara societyumum toditerima beoleh themasyarakat mostsebagai basicnaluri ofpaling instinctsmendasar.<ref name="Cerankowski and Milks 5">{{cite book|author=Karli June Cerankowski|author2=Megan Milks|title=Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives|isbn=978-1-134-69253-8|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2014|pages=1–410|access-date=January 4, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XbgTAwAAQBAJ|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726101807/https://books.google.com/books?id=XbgTAwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> TheirMakalah ''New Orientations'' papermereka statesmenyatakan thatbahwa societymasyarakat hasmemiliki deemedanggapan "Seksualitas [LGBT anddan] femaleperempuan sexualitysebagai asberdaya empoweredatau or repressedtertindas. TheGerakan asexualaseksual movementmenantang challengesasumsi thattersebut assumptiondengan bymenantang challengingbanyak manypaham ofdasar the basic tenets ofmengenai [[pro-sex feminism|feminisme proseks]] [inyang which it isdidalamnya] alreadysudah defineddidefinisikan assebagai repressiveseksualitas orrepresif anti-sexatau sexualitiesantiseks." InSebagai additiontambahan tountuk acceptingmenerima self-identificationidentifikasi diri assebagai asexualaseksual, theJaringan AsexualKebertampakan Visibilitydan andPendidikan EducationAseksual Networktelah hasmerumuskan formulatedaseksualitas asexualitysebagai asorientasi ayang biologicallyditentukan determinedsecara orientationbiologis. ThisRumusan formulaini, ifjika dissecteddibedah scientificallysecara andilmiah dan provendibuktikan, wouldakan supportmendukung researcherkajian buta peneliti [[Simon LeVay]]'s blind study of themengenai [[hypothalamus|hipotalamus]] indalam gaylelaki mengay, womenperempuan, anddan straightlelaki menlurus, whichyang indicatesmengindikasikan thatbahwa thereada isperbedaan abiologis biologicalantara differencelelaki betweenlurus straightdan men andlelaki gay men.<ref>{{cite book|last=Myers|first=David G.|title=Psychology|year=2010|publisher=Worth Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4292-1597-8|page=474|edition=9th}}</ref>
InDi tahun 2014, Cerankowski anddan Milks editedmenyunting anddan publishedmenerbitkan ''Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives'', asebuah collectionkoleksi ofesai essaysyang intendeddimaksudkan tountuk exploremenjelajahi thepolitik politicsaseksualitas ofdari asexualityperspektif fromfeminis a feminist anddan queer perspective.<ref name="Cerankowski and Milks 5"/> ItKoleksi isini brokendibagi intomenjadi thependahuluan introductiondan and then sixenam partsbagian: TheorizingMeneorikan AsexualityAseksualitas: NewOrientasi OrientationsBaru; ThePolitik PoliticsAseksualitas; ofMemvisualkan Asexuality;Aseksualitas Visualizingdalam Asexuality inBudaya Media Culture; AsexualityAseksualitas anddan MasculinityMaskulinitas; HealthKesehatan, DisabilityKetunaan, anddan MedicalizationMedikalisasi; andserta ReadingMembaca AsexuallySecara Aseksual: AsexualTeori LiteraryKarya TheoryTulis Aseksual. EachSetiap partbagian containsterdiri twodari todua threesampai paperstiga onnaskah ayang givenmengulas aspectaspek ofpenelitian asexualityaseksualitas research.yang Onesesuai. suchSalah papersatu isnaskahnya writtenditulis byoleh Ela Przybylo, anothernama namelain thatyang ismulai becomingdikenal commondalam inkarya asexualtulis scholarlyakademis literatureaseksual. Her articleArtikelnya, withberkenaan regarddengan to theantologi Cerankowski anddan Milks anthology, focusesmemusatkan onperhatian accountspada by selflaki-identifiedlaki maleyang asexualsmengidentifikasi diri aseksual, withkhususnya apada particularpengalaman focustekanan-tekanan onyang thedialami pressureslaki-laki menterhadap experienceberhubungan towardsseks havingdalam sexwacana indan dominantmedia WesternBarat discourseyang and mediadominan. ThreeTiga menlelaki livingynggal indi SouthernOntario Ontariobagian Selatan, CanadaKanada, werediwawancari interviewedpada intahun 2011, anddan Przybylo admitsmengakui thatbahwa theukuran smallsampelnya sample-sizeyang meanskecil thatartinya herpenemuannya findingstak cannotdapat bedigeneralisasikan generalizedpada topopulasi ayang greaterlebih populationbesar indalam termshal of representationketerwakilan, anddan thatbahwa they aremereka "exploratorybersifat andmenyelidiki dan provisionalsementara", especially in aterutama fielddalam thatbidang isyang stillmasih lackingkekurangan indalam theorizationsteorisasi.<ref name=":1">Przybylo, Ela. "Masculine Doubt and Sexual Wonder: Asexually-Identified Men Talk About Their (A)sexualities" from Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks, eds., ''Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives'' (Routledge, 2014), 225-246.</ref> AllKetiga threeorang intervieweesyang addresseddiwawancara beingterpengaruh affectedoleh bystereotipe thebahwa stereotypelelaki that men have to enjoy andharus wantmenikmati sexdan inmenginginkan orderseks tountuk bemenjadi "reallelaki mensejati".<ref name=":1" />
Another ofKarya Przybylo's workslainnya, ''Asexuality and the Feminist Politics of "Not Doing It"'', publishedyang inditerbitkan di tahun 2011, takesmengenakan alensa feministfeminis lensuntuk tomenulis scientificilmiah writingstentang on asexualityaseksualitas. Pryzyblo arguesberpendapat thatbahwa asexualityaseksualitas isdimungkinkan madehanya possiblemelalui onlykonteks throughorang theBarat Westernmengenai context"keharusan-keharusan of "sexualseksual, coitalsenggama, and heterosexualdan imperativesheteroseksual".<ref name=":2">{{cite thesis |last=Przybylo |first=Ela |year=2011 |title=Asexuality and the Feminist Politics of 'Not Doing It' |degree=MA |location=Edmonton, Alberta |publisher=University of Alberta |doi=10.7939/R3RB04 |doi-access=free}}</ref> SheDia addressesmenyebutkan earlierkarya-karya worksterdahulu byyang ditulis oleh Dana Densmore, Valerie Solanas, anddan Breanne Fahs, whoyang argued forberpendapat "asexualityaseksualitas anddan celibacyselibat" as radicalsebagai feministstrategi politicalpolitik strategiesfeminis againstmelawan patriarchypatriarki.<ref name=":2" /> WhileMeskipun Przybylo doesmemang makemembuat somepemisahan distinctionsantara betweenaseksualitas asexualitydan and celibacyselibat, shedia considersmenganggap blurringmengaburkan thegaris linesdi betweenantara thekeduanya twomembuat toproduktif bebagi productiveseorang forfeminis amemahami feministtopik understanding of the topictersebut.<ref name=":2" /> InDalam hernaskahnya 2013di articletahun 2013, "ProducingMemproduksi FactsFakta: EmpiricalAseksualitas AsexualityEmpiris anddan theKajian ScientificIlmiah StudyMengenai of SexSeks", Przybylo distinguishesmembedakan betweenantara twodua differenttahap stagesberbeda ofpenelitian asexual researchaseksual: thatbahwa ofakhir thedasawarsa late1970an 1970shingga toawal the1990an, earlyyang 1990s,sering whichmeliputi oftenpemahaman includedsangat aterbatas verymengenai limitedaseksualitas, understandingdan ofpeninjauan asexuality,kembali andyang thedilakukan morelebih recentbaru revisitingmengenai ofsubjek thetersebut subjectyang whichdikatakannya shedimulai saysoleh began withkajian Bogaert's 2004di studytahun and2004 hasdan popularizedtelah themempopulerkan subjectsubjek andtersebut madedan itmembuatnya morelebih "culturallyterlihat visiblesecara budaya". InDalam thisartikel articleini, Przybylosekali oncelagi againPrzybylo assertsmenegaskan thepemahaman understandingaseksualitas ofsebagai asexualityfenomena as a cultural phenomenonbudaya, anddan continuestetap to be critical ofkritis itsmengenai scientifickajian studyilmiahnya.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Przybylo | first1 = Ela | s2cid = 144394132 | year = 2013 | title = Producing Facts: Empirical Asexuality and the Scientific Study of Sex | journal = Feminism & Psychology | volume = 23 | issue = 2| pages = 224–242 | doi = 10.1177/0959353512443668 }}</ref> Pryzblo publishedmenerbitkan asebuah bookbuku, ''Asexual Erotics,'' indi tahun 2019. InDalam thisbuku bookini, shedia arguedberpendapat thatbahwa asexualityaseksualitas poses amemiliki "paradoxparadoks" inyaitu thatorientasi isseksual ayang sexualdidefinisikan orientationoleh thatsama issekali definedketiadaan byaktivitas the absence of sexual activity entirelyseksual. SheDia distinguishesmembedakan betweenantara apemahaman sociologicalsosiologis understandingmengenai ofaseksualitas asexualitydan and a culturalpemahaman understandingbudaya, whichyang shemenurutnya saiddapat could includemeliputi "thejalinan openterbuka meshberbagai ofkemungkinan, possibilitieskesenjangan, gapsketumpangtindihan, overlapsperselisihan, dissonances anddan resonanceskeharmonisan".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Przybylo|first=Ela|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1096288008|title=Asexual erotics : intimate readings of compulsory sexuality|publisher=[[Ohio State University]]|year=2019|isbn=978-0-8142-1404-6|location=Columbus|pages=1–32|oclc=1096288008|access-date=December 9, 2020|archive-date=March 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309223644/https://www.worldcat.org/title/asexual-erotics-intimate-readings-of-compulsory-sexuality/oclc/1096288008|url-status=live}}</ref>
CJ DeLuzio Chasin statesmenyatakan indalam ''Reconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential'' thatbahwa academicpenelitian researchakademis onmengenai asexualityaseksualitas "hastelah positionedmemposisikan asexualityaseksualitas insejajar linedengan withwacana [[Essentialism|essentialistesensialis]] discourses ofmengenai sexualorientasi orientationseksual" whichyang ismerepotkan troublesomekarena asmenciptakan it creates asebuah [[Binary opposition|binarybiner]] betweenantara asexualsaseksual anddan personsorang-orang whoyang havetelah beendikenai subjectedintervensi topsikiatris psychiatricuntuk intervention for disorders suchgangguan-gangguan asseperti HypoactiveGangguang SexualHasrat DesireSeksial DisorderHipoaktif.<ref name="Reconsidering Asexuality" /> Chasin saysmengatakan thatbahwa thisbiner binaryini impliesmengimplikasikan thatbahwa allsemua asexualsaseksual experience a lifelongmengalami (hence,karenanya enduringmenanggung) lackkekurangan ofketertarikan sexualseksual attractionseumur hidup, thatsehingga allsemua non-asexualsnonaseksual whoyang experiencemengalami akekurangan lackhasrat ofseksual sexualmerasa desiretertekan experiencekarenanya, distressdan overmenganggap it,para andaseksual thatyang itmengalami pathologizesperasaan asexualstertekan whoseperti doitu experienceabnormal suchsecara distresspsikologis.<ref name="Reconsidering Asexuality" /> AsSeperti Chasinyang saysdikatakan Chasin suchyang diagnosesmendiagnosa assebagai HSDD actbertindak tomengobati medicalizedan andmerawat governserta women'smengatur seksualitas sexualityperempuan, theartikel articleitu aims tobertujuan "unpackmengungkap" problematicdefinisi definitionsaseksual ofyang asexualitybermasalah thatyang areberbahaya harmfulbaik topada bothaseksual asexualsmaupun and women alikeperempuan. Chasin statesmenyatakan thatbahwa asexualityaseksualitas hasmemiliki thedaya poweruntuk tomenantang challengewacana commonplacelumrah discoursemengenai of the naturalness ofkealamian sexualityseksualitas, buttapi thatpenerimaan thetanpa unquestionedmempertanyakan acceptancedefinisi ofsaat itsini currenttidak definitionmemperkenankannya. doesChasin notjuga allowberpendapat fordi this.situ Chasindan alsodi arguesdalam therekarya andlainnya elsewhere indalam ''Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance'' thatbahwa itmerupakan ishal importantyang topenting interrogateuntuk whymempertanyakan someonekenapa mightseseorang bedapat distressedmerasa abouttertekan lowmengenai sexualhasrat desireseksual yang rendah. Chasin furtherberargumen argueslebih thatjauh cliniciansbahwa havepara andokter ethicalmemiliki obligationkewajiban tosecara avoidetis treatinguntuk lowmenghindari sexualmerawat desirehasrat perseksual seyang asrendah pathologicalpada hakikatnya sebagai ketidaknormalan psikologis, anddan tountuk discussmendiskusikan asexualityaseksualitas assebagai akemungkinan viableyang possibilitylayak (wheresaat relevantrelevan) withdengan pasien yang secara clientsklinis presentingdatang clinicallykarena withhasrat lowseksual sexualyang desirerendah.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
=== IntersectionsTitik withpertemuan racedengan andras disabilitydan ketunaan ===
ScholarAkademisi Ianna Hawkins Owen writesmenuliskan, "StudiesKajian-kajian ofmengenai raceras havetelah revealedmengungkapkan thepenyebaran deploymentaseksualitas ofdalam asexualitywacana indominan thesebagai dominantsatu discourseperilaku as anseksual ideal sexualuntuk behaviormembenarkan tobaik justifypemberdayaan bothorang-orang thekulit empowermentputih ofmaupun whitespensubordinasian andorang-orang thekulit subordinationhitam ofuntuk blacksmenegakkan tosistem upholdsosial adan racialized social andpolitik politicalyang systemdirasialisasi."<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Hawkins Owen|first=Ianna|title=Asexualities : feminist and queer perspectives|others=Cerankowski, Karli June., Milks, Megan.|year=2014|isbn=978-0-415-71442-6|location=New York|oclc=863044056}}</ref> ThisHal isini partlysebagian due to the simultaneouskarena [[sexualization|seksualisasi]] anddan de-sexualizationdeseksualisasi ofsecara blackbersamaan womenterhadap inperempuan-perempuan thekulit hitam dalam [[Mammy archetype in the United States|Mammypola archetypedasar mami]], asdan welljuga asbagaimana bymasyarakat howmendeseksualisasi societyminoritas de-sexualizesras certaintertentu, racialsebagai minorities,bagian asdari partpenawaran ofuntuk amengklaim bidsuperioritas tooleh claimbangsa superiorityberkulit by Whitesputih.<ref name=":6" /> ThisSituasi isini co-existenthidup withberdampingan thedengan sexualizationseksualisasi oftubuh blackperempuan femalekulit bodieshitam indalam thepola dasar [[Jezebel]] archetype, bothyang utilizedkeduanya todigunakan justifyuntuk slaverymembenarkan andperbudakan enabledan furthermemungkinkan controlpengendalian yang lebih jauh.<ref name=":6" /> Owen alsojuga criticizes themengkritisi "...investmentinvestasi indalam constructingmembangun asexualityaseksualitas uponatas anama whiteras racialkulit rubricputih (whosiapa elselagi canyang claimdapat accessmengklaim toakses beingutuk justmenjadi likeseperti everyoneorang-orang elselainnya?)".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Owen|first=Ianna Hawkins|s2cid=149999756|date=November 2018|title=Still, nothing: Mammy and black asexual possibility|journal=Feminist Review|language=en|volume=120|issue=1|pages=70–84|doi=10.1057/s41305-018-0140-9|issn=0141-7789|doi-access=free}}</ref> Eunjung Kim commentsmengomentari onpada thetitik intersectionstemu betweenantara disabilityketunaan oratau [[crip theory|teori lumpuh]] anddan asexualityaseksualitas, sayingdengan disabledmengatakan peoplebahwa areorang-orang morepenyandang frequentlyketunaan de-sexualizedlebih sering dideseksualisasi.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Eunjung|title=Asexualities : feminist and queer perspectives|others=Cerankowski, Karli June., Milks, Megan.|year=2014|isbn=978-0-415-71442-6|location=New York|oclc=863044056}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kim |first=Eunjung |date=2011 |title=Asexuality in disability narratives |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460711406463 |journal=Sexualities |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=479–493 |doi=10.1177/1363460711406463 |s2cid=55747579 |via=Sage Journals |access-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307220258/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460711406463 |url-status=live }}</ref> Kim comparesmembandingkan the ideagagasan ofperempuan [[Hypoactive sexual desire disorder|frigiddingin]] womendengan toaseksualitas asexualitydan and analyzes itsmenganalisis historysejarahnya fromdari asudut queer, criporang lumpuh, and feministdan anglefeminis. ScholarAkasemisi Karen Cuthbert comments onberkomentar "providingmenyediakan thediskusi firstpertama empiricallyyang groundedberlandaskan discussionempiris ofmengenai thistitik intersectiontemu ofaseksualitas asexualitydan and disabilityketunaan (anddan topada ahal lesseryang extentlebih sempit, gender anddan 'raceras')."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cuthbert |first=Karen |date=2017 |title=You Have to be Normal to be Abnormal: An Empirically Grounded Exploration of the Intersection of Asexuality and Disability |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038515587639 |journal=Sociology |language=en |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=241–257 |doi=10.1177/0038038515587639 |s2cid=141976966 |issn=0038-0385 |via=Sage Publications |access-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307225006/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038515587639 |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Bogaert's psychological work and theories ===
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