Citations:asexy

English citations of asexy

Adjective: "(slang) asexual"

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• 2007, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Issues 34-37, page 363:

  One of the first rumored-to-be-asexy relationships can be seen in Henry James's The Bostonians, an 1886 novel that deals with the devotion between two women, Olive and Verena — the work even gave rise to the term "Boston marriages" to describe women who lived together in love with one another without having sex.

• 2007, Alex Mar, "Asexual Healing: Young People Forming Sex-Free Community", MTV.com, 5 April 2007:

  Unlike those who choose to abstain by choice — because of, say, religious reasons — the "asexy" claim they have no say in the matter. They're simply not hardwired to want sex.

• 2009, Demian Bulwa, "Asexuals leave the closet, find community", San Francisco Chronicle, 24 August 2009:

  And in June, while wearing an "Asexy Dyke" T-shirt, she marched with two dozen other self-described asexuals in San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade.

• 2011, Robert Crooks & Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Wadsworth (2011), →ISBN, page 250:

  Asexual and Proud! is a MySpace community whose goal is to help “asexy” people connect with one another (Bogaert, 2004).