ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a small scale research focused on the challenges of representing asexual orientation that has been defined in terms of absence, which is of sexual drive, desire and practices. It reflects on the lack of visibility of asexuality, which has been identified as a substantial barrier to its inclusion in other sexuality-based political action groups. The chapter offers an analysis that suggests how asexual communities overcome the issue of invisibility. It suggests that by adopting practices of eating cake and celebrating an annual cake day, asexuality is performed in a way that challenges common stereotypes to which asexuals have been subjected. In addition, the question of asexual people enjoying cakes as a new stereotype has been discussed on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network's (AVEN's) forums. Existing discourses around pleasures derived from food provoke a number of questions that may be asked in relation to the practices of eating cake and celebrating an annual cake day by asexuals.
