Abi
08-30-2009, 10:25 PM
Alright this is my latest find. An individual who is apparently asexual.
I had heard the term only once and was intrigued. I didn't understand or truly believe that a human being could be 'asexual'. So I started to do a little reading and observation. It does seem that he is in fact 'asexual'.
So do you believe people can be asexual? Have you ever met anyone who falls into this category? :puzzled:
Asexuality is a sexual orientation describing individuals who do not experience sexual attraction,[1][2] or have no interest in or desire for sex.[3] Sometimes, it is considered a lack of a sexual orientation.[4] One commonly cited study placed the incidence rate of asexuality at 1%.[5]
Asexuality is distinct from celibacy, which is the deliberate abstention from sexual activity. Some asexuals do have sex.
Prevalence
In the mid-twentieth century, Alfred Kinsey rated individuals from 0 to 6 according to their sexual orientation from heterosexual to homosexual. He also included a category he called "X" for individuals with "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions". He labeled 1.5% of the adult male population as X.[7][8] In Kinsey's second book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, he reported this break down of individuals who are X: unmarried females = 14–19%, married females = 1–3%, previously married females = 5–8%, unmarried males = 3–4%, married males = 0%, previously married males = 1-2%.[8]
Further empirical data about an asexual demographic appeared in 1994, when a research team in the United Kingdom carried out a comprehensive survey of 18,876 British residents, spurred by the need for sexual information in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. The survey included a question on sexual attraction, to which 1.05% of the respondents replied that they had "never felt sexually attracted to anyone at all."[9] This phenomenon was seized upon by the Canadian sexuality researcher Dr. Anthony Bogaert in 2004, who explored the asexual demographic in a series of studies. However, he believed that the figure 1% is probably too low. Also, 30% of people contacted chose not to answer the survey. Since less sexually experienced people are more likely to refuse to participate in studies about sexuality, and asexuals tend to be less sexually experienced than non-asexuals, it is likely that asexuals were overrepresented in the 30% who did not participate. The same study found the number of homosexuals and bisexuals combined to be about 1.1% of the population, which is much smaller than other studies indicate.
Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality
I had heard the term only once and was intrigued. I didn't understand or truly believe that a human being could be 'asexual'. So I started to do a little reading and observation. It does seem that he is in fact 'asexual'.
So do you believe people can be asexual? Have you ever met anyone who falls into this category? :puzzled:
Asexuality is a sexual orientation describing individuals who do not experience sexual attraction,[1][2] or have no interest in or desire for sex.[3] Sometimes, it is considered a lack of a sexual orientation.[4] One commonly cited study placed the incidence rate of asexuality at 1%.[5]
Asexuality is distinct from celibacy, which is the deliberate abstention from sexual activity. Some asexuals do have sex.
Prevalence
In the mid-twentieth century, Alfred Kinsey rated individuals from 0 to 6 according to their sexual orientation from heterosexual to homosexual. He also included a category he called "X" for individuals with "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions". He labeled 1.5% of the adult male population as X.[7][8] In Kinsey's second book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, he reported this break down of individuals who are X: unmarried females = 14–19%, married females = 1–3%, previously married females = 5–8%, unmarried males = 3–4%, married males = 0%, previously married males = 1-2%.[8]
Further empirical data about an asexual demographic appeared in 1994, when a research team in the United Kingdom carried out a comprehensive survey of 18,876 British residents, spurred by the need for sexual information in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. The survey included a question on sexual attraction, to which 1.05% of the respondents replied that they had "never felt sexually attracted to anyone at all."[9] This phenomenon was seized upon by the Canadian sexuality researcher Dr. Anthony Bogaert in 2004, who explored the asexual demographic in a series of studies. However, he believed that the figure 1% is probably too low. Also, 30% of people contacted chose not to answer the survey. Since less sexually experienced people are more likely to refuse to participate in studies about sexuality, and asexuals tend to be less sexually experienced than non-asexuals, it is likely that asexuals were overrepresented in the 30% who did not participate. The same study found the number of homosexuals and bisexuals combined to be about 1.1% of the population, which is much smaller than other studies indicate.
Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality