CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTURE

Should Asexuality Be in the DSM? A workshop and discussion
w/David Jay

Thursday, February 19, 7pm
Cost:  $10 - $25, $5 for students

    Join David Jay, founder of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), for a discussion on the asexual community's efforts to change how the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual treats individuals with low sexual desire. AVEN is currently advising the Sexual and Gender Disorders Working Gorup on creating asexual-friendly diagnostic criteria for low sexual desire, and would like your input.

    The workshop will provide a quick history of the asexual community, of the research which has taken place on asexuality and of the way that asexuality is currently treated in DSM. Participants will then break into a structured discussion envisioning sex and asex-positive means of treating low sexual desire. Notes from this discussion will be incorporated into AVEN's recommendation to the SGD Working Group. The discussion will include therapists, sex-educators, students in human sexuality and members of the local asexual community.

    David Jay has been a key figure in the asexual community since its foundation in 2001. He leads the AVEN DSM Taskforce, regularly speaks at conferences and university campuses, and has been featured in such  programs as 20/20, The View and The Montel Williams Show. For more information please visit www.asexuality.org.