Recently, asexuality has been more accepted than in the past.
A 2010 paper written by KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks, titled New Orientations: Asexuality and Its Implications for Theory and Practice, suggests that asexuality may be somewhat of a question in itself for the studies of gender and sexuality
 However, Cranney notes that asexual identification in the third wave was still significant as a predictor of asexual identification in the subsequent wave

