- Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction.

Sexual attraction is the desire to be sexually intimate with a person. It’s like looking at a person and knowing that, given the chance and the right circumstances or whatever, you would totally have intercourse with them.

- An ace is a personal who identifies with asexuality.

- The ace sexual spectrum includes but is not limited to:

- Asexual

- Grayasexual

- Demisexual

- Lithsexual

- A gray-asexual person experiences sexual attraction rarely or in small amounts, they exist in the “gray” area between asexual and sexual.

- A demi-sexual person does not experience sexual attraction unless a strong emotional connection or similar requirements have been met.

- Your libido is your sexual drive, the instinct that pushes people toward having sex.

- Arousal is the state of being reactive to stimuli.

- Being sex repulsed means that you are repulsed by sex. A sex repulsed person may feel disgusted or uncomfortable about matters concerning sex. Like many things this can exist on a spectrum of being highly sex repulsed, or only a little sex repulsed.

- Aesthetic attraction is an attraction to something that is not sexual or romantic in nature.

- Some asexuals wear a black ring on the middle finger of their right hand in order to show pride, signal other aces, or other such things.

- This is not a question we can answer for you. Exactly how you know is ultimately up to you. It is always a good decision to research everything that you can until he find something that is comfortable for you. A good question to start with is “do I feel sexual attraction?” If you don’t you may be asexual.

- No, you may identify with asexual or any other sexual identity at any age?

- No, only if you want to.

- No. Your sexual drive and your sexual identity are not one and the same.

- No. Asexuals can experience arousal.

- No. Your sexual behavior and sexual identity do not define each other.

- An aromantic person experiences little or no romantic attraction to other people.

- The romantic spectrum includes but is not limited to:

- Aromantic

- Biromantic

- Panromantic

- Lithromantic

- A biromantic experiences romantic attraction to two or more genders.

- A panromantic experiences romantic attraction to all genders.

- A crush is the romantic attraction to a person, the desire for a romantic relationship.

- A squish is an aromantic crush; it is the desire for a relationship that is platonic in nature.

- No, you can identify with any romantic orientation at any age.

- A good place to start is with a definition. Offer them resources that they may check out to help them understand.

- No. Asexuals are capable of successful relationships and marriages and can be great parents.

- A lithsexual person experiences sexual attraction to others but does not wish for it to be returned.

- The opposite of asexual; the experience of sexual attraction.

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Lithromanticism is the experience of romantic attraction without the desire for it to be returned?

- They can be, however not all asexuals are aromantic or the other way around.

- Yes.

- It is a joke based off the concept that an ace would rather eat cake than have sex.

- Yes, you can be asexual regardless of sexual behavior or experience.

- Yes.

- Celibacy and abstinence are voluntary. Asexuality is not.  

- Sensual attraction is the desire for sensual, but not sexual, things with people. It includes things such as cuddling.

- Yes, you can be any combination of romantic and sexual orientations.

- You may want to consider explaining what it is and offering them resources where they may learn and come to understand that it is a thing that existence. If they are making you uncomfortable in any way, you may want to consider no longer associating with them.

- By communicating with them. Tell them what it is and what it means for you and your relationships.

- Communicate with them.