The virtual asexual community of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area

Abstract

The present paper identifies and characterizes the asexual community of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In order to do so, it carries on a theoretical revision of the concept of asexuality, highlighting the most relevant contributions for its emerging study. Secondly, as asexual people mostly interact through virtual platforms, the chosen methodology is a virtual ethnography, combined with in-depth interviews. The objective is to highlight the specificity of a mainly virtual community. In the last place, the process of “politization” of the asexual community is developed, this one being oriented to the rest of the civil society and other groups of sexual diversity.

Key words:
asexuality; asexuals; virtual ethnography; sexualnormativity