(A)sexual film nearing completion
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- Published on Monday, 04 April 2011 09:01
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(A)sexual started life as Asexuality: the Making of a Movement. The new film covers the history of the Asexual movement and its steady progression to the current time. Angela Tucker came across the idea of making a film about Asexuals and Asexuals movements after reading an article by David Jay on Salon.com in 2006. Tucker decided to investigate the topic further.
(A)sexual has suffered from funding problems from the beginning. According to Tucker, few people are willing to fund a documentary when the subject matter is unknown. She is still surprised whenever someone who does not identify as Asexual has heard of Asexuality. Even after becoming immersed in the project, she still finds it hard to believe how many people do not know about the topic. As stated here, an $11,000 kickstart campaign brought the film to its current status.
(A)sexual film stalled in final stages
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- Published on Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:48
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(A)sexual, a new documentary about the Asexual movement is in the editing stages. The proposed film, which has already faced one funding crisis may not make it beyond the cutting floor if it does not receive more funding.
Petition to add Asexual, Pansexual to Facebook and other social networking sites resurfaces
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:15
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A petition to ask Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites to add Asexual and Pansexual to their orientation list is circulating once more. Currently, Facebook does let users select male, female, both or neither in their profile.
Asexuals, Pansexuals and Bisexuals all face erasure and invisibility. Allowing Bisexuals and Pansexuals the ability to pass for straight while in a heterosexual relationship is a point of contention. When Asexuals express their true orientation, other people meet the pronouncement with disbelief or probing questions.
HSDD remains a condition for men under current DSM 5 proposals
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 21:04
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Women will no longer have to worry about getting diagnosed with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder when the new version of the DSM comes out in May 2013. Men will not fare as well. The diagnostic criteria for the condition in men will change the disorder for males little in the new version of the bible of the profession of psychiatry.
The condition that it must cause the individual marked distressed must remain, as does the condition that the condition must cause interpersonal difficulty, a person diagnosed must also not have been diagnosed with another condition that accounts for his disorder, according to dsm5.org
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Apricus forms sexual dysfunction committees
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- Published on Sunday, 27 March 2011 19:05
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Femprox and Libigel are competing to become the first drugs on the market for Female Sexual Arousal Disorders. Like Biosante's Libigel, the drug is targeted mostly at post menopausal women who normally experience a decrease of libido after the change of life.
The Food and Drug Administration did not give flibanserin approval for its attempt to market a female viagra earlier this year. Libigel and Femprox attempt to correct the declining libido that occurs with age. Neither product seems to target the Asexual community. Hypocative Sexual Desire Disorder in men will remain, although Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in women will be renamed Sexual Arousal/Disinterest Disorder in women, according to dsm5.org.