The asexual identity: from the culture of masculinity towards the social networks

Abstract

Under the frame of a doctoral thesis, regarding the appearing of the asexual identity in the social scene, this work investigates the main cultural factors that could have contributed to its start and development. An identity under construction, that it’s being produced here and now, in the bosom of a virtual community, and that can’t be unconnected with the opportunities that offer the Information and Communications Technologies. The social networks start to seem, this way, not only as a useful resource to get changes in the public politics, and not only as a key to find new forms of communication and knowledge, but as spaces in which can be generated and disseminated changes, even in the more intimate and personal aspects of the human being, as the sexuality, in whose normativeness has always taken root the “must-be” (that is the identity) of men and women.