Mark Carrigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. For his dissertation, he is developing a critical realist approach to longitudinal qualitative research through an empirical case study of undergraduate students. His other research interests include asexuality, sexual culture and digital sociology.Kristina Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, USA. For her dissertation, she is researching the intersections of feminist theory, asexuality, and scientific and medical research on sexual desire.Todd G. Morrison is Associate Professor in the College of Arts & Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His primary research interests include gay and lesbian psychology; body image; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; psychometrics; and human sexuality (in particular, pornography and sex work).

• Introduction Mark Carrigan, Kristina Gupta and Todd G. Morrison 1. Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys Catherine R.H. Aicken, Catherine H. Mercer and Jackie A. Cassell 2. Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified asexual men and women Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto and Boris B. Gorzalka 3. HSDD and asexuality: a question of instruments Jacinthe Flore 4. How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder? Andrew Hinderliter 5. Asexuality: from pathology to identity and beyond Randi Gressgård 6. Sex as a normalising technology: early-twentieth-century public sex education campaigns Elizabeth Stephens 7. The average and the normal in nineteenth-century French medical discourse Peter Cryle 8. From pre-normal to abnormal: the emergence of a concept in late eighteenth-century France Caroline Warman 9. Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method Ela Przybylo 10. A mystery wrapped in an enigma – asexuality: a virtual discussion C. J. Bishop

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Mark Carrigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. For his dissertation, he is developing a critical realist approach to longitudinal qualitative research through an empirical case study of undergraduate students. His other research interests include asexuality, sexual culture and digital sociology.Kristina Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, USA. For her dissertation, she is researching the intersections of feminist theory, asexuality, and scientific and medical research on sexual desire.Todd G. Morrison is Associate Professor in the College of Arts & Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His primary research interests include gay and lesbian psychology; body image; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; psychometrics; and human sexuality (in particular, pornography and sex work).

• Introduction Mark Carrigan, Kristina Gupta and Todd G. Morrison 1. Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys Catherine R.H. Aicken, Catherine H. Mercer and Jackie A. Cassell 2. Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified asexual men and women Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto and Boris B. Gorzalka 3. HSDD and asexuality: a question of instruments Jacinthe Flore 4. How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder? Andrew Hinderliter 5. Asexuality: from pathology to identity and beyond Randi Gressgård 6. Sex as a normalising technology: early-twentieth-century public sex education campaigns Elizabeth Stephens 7. The average and the normal in nineteenth-century French medical discourse Peter Cryle 8. From pre-normal to abnormal: the emergence of a concept in late eighteenth-century France Caroline Warman 9. Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method Ela Przybylo 10. A mystery wrapped in an enigma – asexuality: a virtual discussion C. J. Bishop

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Mark Carrigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. For his dissertation, he is developing a critical realist approach to longitudinal qualitative research through an empirical case study of undergraduate students. His other research interests include asexuality, sexual culture and digital sociology.Kristina Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, USA. For her dissertation, she is researching the intersections of feminist theory, asexuality, and scientific and medical research on sexual desire.Todd G. Morrison is Associate Professor in the College of Arts & Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His primary research interests include gay and lesbian psychology; body image; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; psychometrics; and human sexuality (in particular, pornography and sex work).

• Introduction Mark Carrigan, Kristina Gupta and Todd G. Morrison 1. Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys Catherine R.H. Aicken, Catherine H. Mercer and Jackie A. Cassell 2. Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified asexual men and women Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto and Boris B. Gorzalka 3. HSDD and asexuality: a question of instruments Jacinthe Flore 4. How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder? Andrew Hinderliter 5. Asexuality: from pathology to identity and beyond Randi Gressgård 6. Sex as a normalising technology: early-twentieth-century public sex education campaigns Elizabeth Stephens 7. The average and the normal in nineteenth-century French medical discourse Peter Cryle 8. From pre-normal to abnormal: the emergence of a concept in late eighteenth-century France Caroline Warman 9. Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method Ela Przybylo 10. A mystery wrapped in an enigma – asexuality: a virtual discussion C. J. Bishop

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