The virtual asexual community of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area

Abstract The present paper identifies and characterizes the asexual community of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In order to do so, it carries on a theoretical revision of the concept of asexuality, highlighting the most relevant contributions for its emerging study. Secondly, as asexual people mostly interact through virtual platforms, the chosen methodology is a virtual ethnography, combined with in-depth interviews. The objective is to highlight the specificity of a mainly virtual community. In the last place, the process of “politization” of the asexual community is developed, this one being oriented to the rest of the civil society and other groups of sexual diversity.

摘要 本研究旨在识别并刻画布宜诺斯艾利斯都会区无性恋（asexuality）社群的特征。为此，研究首先对无性恋概念开展理论梳理，重点提炼该新兴研究领域的关键学术贡献。其次，鉴于无性恋群体主要依托虚拟平台开展互动，本研究采用虚拟民族志结合深度访谈的研究方法，核心目标在于凸显这一以虚拟空间为主要活动场域的社群的独特性。最后，本研究探讨了无性恋社群的“政治化”进程，该进程面向公民社会其他群体及各类性多元群体展开。