The author explores erotic representations of asexuality and how asexuality is a series of perspectives from which sexuality can be examined. She challenges the pathologization and invisibilization of asexuality and draws on Audre Lorde's concept of erotics to understand it in the context of relating, through analysis of film, photographs, television, and fiction from the late 1960s on. She examines compulsory sexuality through various modes of asexual erotics and their implications for feminist, queer, and lesbian theory, politics, representation, and relating, particularly feminist political celibacy/asexuality, lesbian bed death, the asexual queer child, and the aging spinster as figures that are asexual, as well as the mass murder of pedestrians into Toronto, Canada, by someone identified as an involuntary celibate. Annotation 2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
