6 April is International Asexuality Day. Asexuality is a valid sexual orientation. Asexual people may experience little or no sexual attraction, and ace identities are diverse and real. Too often, asexuality is misunderstood, dismissed, or treated as something that needs to be questioned or explained away. Ace people can face pressure, invisibility, and harmful assumptions about relationships, attraction, and what it means to live a full and meaningful life. There is no one r

Asexuality can be used as an umbrella term to refer to a broad diversity in individual's experience of sexual attraction. An asexual...