Discrimination against asexual people

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Discrimination against asexual people, also known as acephobia, encompasses a range of negative attitudes and behaviors toward asexuality or people who identify as asexual. The term aphobia may also be used if referring more broadly to discrimination against both asexual and aromantic people. Some examples of negative feelings or characterisations toward asexuality include dehumanisation, the belief that asexuality is a mental illness, that asexual people cannot feel love, and the refusal to accept asexuality as a genuine sexual orientation. Asexuality is sometimes confused with celibacy, abstinence, antisexualism, or hyposexuality. As a form of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, acephobia belongs under the wider social concept of kyriarchy. There have been efforts to combat anti-asexual discrimination through legislation or education (such as through workshops on asexuality).

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