Asexuality research and paper!

[alee_grrl]

I get to write a 20 page paper on asexuality this semester. I'm going to do a broad overview of the topic for the introduction, look at the issues of cultural discrimination and examine how that discrimination might play out in legal settings. I was particularly interested in addressing on of my classmates comments that basically said zie doubted that asexuals face the same sort of legal discrimination that other folks in the queer community do.

We're going to be allowed to use a wide variety of sources including websites and blogs. So if you have materials on this topic that you think might be helpful or interesting please feel free to mention them in the comments. I have some already (like AVEN) but am certainly on the lookout for more. I'd also love to bounce title ideas off folks.

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asexuality and legal issues

[paganaidd]

I was thinking about possible legal issues and I run into the same ones same gender couples run into. Children, medical power of attourney, health care etc. The two things our law recognizes as paramount are blood ties and sexual ties. So there is agitation for same gender marriage, but not for nonsexual marriage, for instance.

So, one has a husband with whom one is (presumably) sexual, whom society favors in all things legal. One might also have a nonsexual wife (and here I find myself resisting the urge to put quotes around it showing how deep that conditioning is). One is in a car accident with husband and is incapacitated. Often in legal matters, one's blood kin (who might well be estranged) will be favored over this nonblood, nonsexually related person even if proper forms are filled out.

Re: asexuality and legal issues

[alee_grrl]

This was very much where my thinking went when I was first contemplated possible legal issues. I hadn't quite reached the thought on the relationship (blood being preferred over non-blood), but that is a very good point.