FORT COLLINS- This week is Asexual Awareness Week (October 19th-25th, 2025)! There are many asexual people, but they can be overlooked. For the next seven days, we get to celebrate all those that identify as asexual. Asexual is where a person has little to no sexual attraction. Asexual people can have romantic attraction but don’t have to. Asexual people will often pair asexual with something else. For example, some people may be asexual lesbians. Also, some people who are asexual are also aromantic, which means that they have little to no romantic attraction. Many of these people identify as aroace, which is a mix of both.
It’s important that we have this awareness week, because asexuality is a minimized sexuality, and we don’t want those who are asexual to have to hide, because they are amazing people. Asexual people are all different and they may show their feelings differently and may even have different feelings to people, because the asexual spectrum is a very large one. By this I mean that there are different sexualities under the umbrella of asexual such as autosexual, cupiosexual, demisexual, fraysexual, gray-asexual, and lithosexual. Some people say these are micro-sexualities but they are not; they are just as important and worthy of awareness.
Many things challenge queer and trans people, but there are some things that may affect asexual people differently. This is because in the world we are in today having sexual attraction is a common feeling, but there are people who struggle to come out because of the common misconception that all humans have those feelings. You might be wondering, Well how do I help any asexual people I know? Well, you can just be aware of their sexualities, and you can be willing and able to talk about it. Maybe this is uncomfortable, but that’s okay sometimes, because some queer people and trans people need friends to be able to talk to about their feelings. All people sometimes need to have you or a different friend to talk to or lean on.
This week you get to celebrate the wonderful friends and family members who are asexual. There are many different asexual identities and there are many different ways to support them. Maybe you are asexual, maybe you know someone who is asexual, or maybe you are a wonderful ally. However you ended up here, you now know that we need to bring awareness to people who identify as asexual. It is important to love them and be willing to be friends with them, because they are great people.
Language used:
Acefluxal– Aceflux describes someone whose sexual attraction fluctuates, often on a spectrum between asexual and sexual. This means the frequency or intensity of sexual attraction can change over time, shifting between being demisexual, gray-asexual, or even allosexual.
Autosexual– Autosexuality is a term used to describe a sexual orientation in which individuals experience primary sexual attraction to themselves.
Cupiosexual– Cupiosexual describes a person who doesn’t experience sexual attraction but still desires a sexual relationship.
Demisexual– Demisexuality is a sexual orientation where individuals only experience sexual attraction after forming a strong emotional bond with another person.
Fraysexual– Fraysexual is a sexual orientation characterized by feeling sexual attraction only to people you have just met and do not have an emotional bond with; as the relationship progresses and an emotional connection develops, the sexual attraction fades.
Gray Asexual– Gray asexual is a sexual orientation where a person experiences sexual attraction infrequently or with low intensity. It’s a middle ground between being asexual (no sexual attraction) and allosexual (feeling sexual attraction).
Lithosexual- This sexual orientation is where an individual experiences sexual attraction but does not want that attraction to be reciprocated. This can be because the idea of mutual attraction makes them uncomfortable or their sexual feelings disappear once they find out the attraction is mutual.
