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August 21, 2012 | 469 notes

Studies suggest that about 1% of the world’s population identifies as asexual. So that accounts for a large number of people who don’t experience sexual attraction, but who do experience relationships in a variety of ways. Some of us are romantic and interested in intimate relationships. Others, like me, are aromantic and more solitary in nature. Some of us have a sex drive though it isn’t directed at anyone, and others don’t. The complexity of asexuality remains largely unstudied, something that I hope to see changing over the coming years as it becomes more widely recognised as an orientation in its own right. SE Smith on Guardian Comment: “Asexuality always existed, you just didn’t notice it”

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