This year, Asexual Awareness Week, now known as Ace Week, takes place Oct. 19–25. The annual observance spotlights asexuality and the broader “ace” spectrum of identities. Over time, Ace Week has ...

Asexuality as a sexual orientation reaches back to the first humans. But as an area of scientific study, it’s relatively new. And its orientation cousin, aromanticism, is even newer on the scene: The ...