“I think it is a word that emerged primarily out of the Aven site and asexual advocates, not necessarily out of academics,” says Anthony Bogaert, a human-sexuality researcher and professor at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, who’s written multiple papers about asexuality. At that time, people on the Aven site were figuring out just how diverse the asexual spectrum could be – new terms began emerging as people who’d previously identified as asexual noted unique circumstances in which they could experience sexual attraction.