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What does it mean to be asexual? CSUSB professor discusses common myths about the misunderstood sexuality
TODAY (NBC News) via Yahoo!Life
June 28, 2024

Megan Carroll, assistant professor of psychology, was one of the experts interviewed for an article about asexuality.

While asexual people have likely existed throughout history, people lacked the language to discuss it. When Alfred Kinsey investigated sexuality as part of the Kinsey scale in 1948, he noted some people, whom he called Group X, couldn’t be placed on the scale because they didn’t experience sexual attraction, Carroll says.

“We had no language for asexuality,” Carroll, an assistant professor of sociology at California State University San Bernardino, tells TODAY.com. “That term did not really come into popular parlance until the front of the century, really like 2001, when (the Asexual Visibility and Education Network) was founded … put out a definition of asexuality.”

Local organizations condemn hate, as attacks against LGBTQ+, Jewish and Muslim communities rise
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/Southern California News Group
July 9, 2024

Brian Levin, former head of Cal State San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and a retired professor of criminal justice, was interviewed for an article about new research from the state Department of Justice, which shows that while overall hate crimes statewide went down, reported attacks against the LGBTQ+, Jewish and Muslim communities rose in 2023.

Levin said that the state’s data prompts “a lengthy cautionary notation,” with some agencies — like the Riverside County Sheriff, he called out — barely reporting.

“When final local numbers are available, California actually will have significantly more hate crime totals than those found in the report, and is also likely to mitigate or erase this initial reported overall decline,” Levin said by email.

But he said that the state’s most recent findings reveal a “generally consistent” rise in anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish, anti-LGBTQ and anti-Latino hate crimes.

“We need to establish more resilient community partnerships and better reporting from both victims and local agencies.”

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