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@Noel - from wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality

Sexual activity and sexuality
While some asexuals masturbate as a solitary form of release or have sex for the benefit of a romantic partner, others do not (see above).[12] [17] [22] Fischer et al. reported that "scholars who study the physiology around asexuality suggest that people who are asexual are capable of genital arousal but may experience difficulty with so-called subjective arousal." This means that "while the body becomes aroused, subjectively – at the level of the mind and emotions – one does not experience arousal".[19]

The Kinsey Institute sponsored another small survey on the topic in 2007, which found that self-identified asexuals "reported significantly less desire for sex with a partner, lower sexual arousability, and lower sexual excitation but did not differ consistently from non-asexuals in their sexual inhibition scores or their desire to masturbate".[12]

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The article itself is fairly interesting reading. This is just a snippet - the article itself mentions that this is not true of all aesexuals, and that asexuality is a tremendously complex topic with a lot of nuance. I'm posting this peice here, however, to illustrate that Aesexual is not a synonym for a total and utter lack of sexuality.