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  • noun Plural form of asexual.

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Examples

  • BERMAN: My fear is that a large proportion of the people who are going on these Web sites and now identifying as asexuals are just looking for an answer, when the answer may lie in therapy.

    CNN Transcript Apr 05, 2006 2006

  • My "legitimately curious" reply had to do with the quote that I felt was unfairly lumping the curious in with the dismissive as calling asexuals freaks - so when you replied that there are better places for curious people to find information, it seems like you were saying that anyone left making posts is at least not actually sincere and at most has some other purpose in posting.

    MetaFilter Projects 2008

  • (he can still be asexual, I read there are different kind of asexuals?)

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Michael Ausiello 2010

  • Referring to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network AVEN, she describes married asexuals as those who reject the prioritizing of monogamous sexual love over friendship.

    Bella DePaulo: Don't Want to Divorce? Indulge Your Polyamory or Asexuality, Have Your Affairs, Live Apart Bella DePaulo 2011

  • It would have to be a mix of sexuals and asexuals.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • And the protection that this diversity brings to the sexual amoebae might give them a crucial edge in their competition with asexuals.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • The conversation asexuals are having ostensibly about themselves are really about all of us.

    Cory Silverberg: Other Sexual Conversations Worth Having 2009

  • Only in these sorts of animals could the generation-by-generation effects of evolution be seen, because a biologist could compare how the sexuals and asexuals fared.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • The legislation is blind and dumb as to whether the SSM partners are homosexuals, heterosexuals, or asexuals.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal challenge to Prop 8: 2009

  • In our own evolutionary lineage, the race between the sexuals and the asexuals ended hundreds of millions of years ago.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

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