David Jay (born April 24, 1982) is an American asexual activist. Jay is the founder and webmaster of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN). While a student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Jay "came out" as asexual and launched AVEN's website.AVEN, which Salon**** referred to as the "unofficial online headquarters" of the asexuality movement, is widely recognised as the largest online asexual community. Its two main goals are to ****** public acceptance and discussion about asexuality and to facilitate the growth of a large online asexual community.