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Pride Is In Full Swing – Here’s Our Guide to Going All Out

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Latines learning, remembering, healing, and finding joy in our diverse stories.

Beautycon is a global platform that brings together beauty enthusiasts, brands, and industry leaders to explore the latest trends, innovations, and...
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Sex-Positive Asexuals: What It Means And What They Want

Asexuality is a type of sexual orientation, used to describe those who ‘experience little-to-no sexual attraction towards anyone, regardless of gender.’ Unfortunately, it’s often perceived as a symptom of something negative, whether it’s a physical or mental disorder, a bad experience, or a bad attitude towards sexuality in general. It’s still assumed that asexuality is akin to sex-negativity and that asexual people must have anti-sex attitudes. It’s a misconception that often leads to asexualit...

Ace Awareness Week: Navigating Asexuality and Intersectionality in Education

I only realised I was asexual when everyone else seemed to realise that they weren’t.

We were approaching the end of primary school, and after coming back from the summer holidays, I noticed that my peers were less interested in playing together and more interested in ‘fancying’ each other. It seemed to come out of nowhere, and while I rolled my eyes as girls argued over boys in the cafeteria, I assumed I’d be doing the same thing soon enough. Whether it was the beginnings of sexual attraction,...
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This Is What Asexual Looks Like

Editor’s Note: Yasmin Benoit is an award-winning asexual activist and founder of the UK’s first asexual rights initiative. In this guest editorial for Playboy, she explains why being asexual has meant so much to her and why it may not look the way you might think. Please note that the UK spellings of words have been retained in this feature.


This is what asexual looks like. It looks like me. It also looks like a 60-year-old married man with three kids. It looks your cool ‘single’ aunt. It loo...
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Yasmin Benoit: 'Within the LGBTQ+ community, there’s a lack of understanding about asexuality'

Ace Week, held this year between October 20-26, highlights the asexual community and serves as a reminder of the unique challenges asexual people face—challenges that are often overlooked, even within LGBTQ+ spaces.


Yasmin Benoit, a model and prominent asexual activist, has dedicated her career to advocating for the visibility and recognition of asexual and aromantic identities.

In this opinion piece, she reflects on her experiences and emphasises the ongoing need for greater un...
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Yasmin Benoit: 'It's time for asexuality to be legally recognised'

‘Asexual rights’ is not a combination of words that you hear very often, but it should be. You’ll mainly find it in certain corners of internet culture. For some, it’s a meme, a joke. For others, it’s a battle cry, a call to arms. This Ace Week, it’s time to emphasise the latter. At the end of this week, Stonewall and I will release the first ever report into asexual experiences and discrimination in the UK. The compilation of qualitative research, case studies, and policy recommendations will p...
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Asexual Intimacy: Partnered Aces Share Their Experiences with Non-Sexual Intimacy

Intimacy can be found in proximity; simply sharing space with the other person. For Courtney and Royce, it is an underappreciated bedroom activity – reading. “There’s an incredible amount of closeness that can be achieved by curling up together over the same book and taking turns reading aloud to one-another.” For Bubbli, that can just mean “working on our laptops next to each other.”Katie developed a close friendship with her now queer-platonic partner after divorcing her husband. “We often go...
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Why Asexual Representation Matters At Pride, According To Model Yasmin Benoit

I attended my first Pride event when I was 14 years old. It was my local Pride, and I was drawn to it purely for the funfair rides and the music. It was 2009 and all I knew about Pride was that it was supposedly for gay people who celebrated with rainbows. I was at the very beginning of discovering my identity; I realised I was asexual when everyone else realised that they weren’t – during early puberty. As I approached my teenage years, people began to ask me what my sexual orientation was; I c...