Asexual

Categories: Words, Volceldom

'''Asexual''' designates the lack of [[sexual]] attraction (not to be confused with [[libido]]) or lack of a sexual orientation toward any specific gender taken up by a large number of human beings. Asexuality can be said to lead to [[volceldom]] as people identifying as asexual often do not want to have sex with someone else, though they may desire [[Relationship|romantic relationships]]. Unlike [[hyposexual]] conditions, asexuality relates to an individual's capacity to find given targets arousing rather than the physiological state of the libido.

Usually it simply refers to a person having a negligible/unobserved quantity of sexuality, perhaps due to having below-average sexual impulses.{{Citation needed}}

Research suggests that the development of asexuality may be similar to or relate to homosexuality, specifically in the greater likelihood of being later-born and prevalence of non-right-handedness, both of which is weakly linked to high [[mutational load]].<ref>Yule, M.A., Brotto, L.A. & Gorzalka, B.B. Biological Markers of Asexuality: Handedness, Birth Order, and Finger Length Ratios in Self-identified Asexual Men and Women. ''Arch Sex Behav'' '''43,''' 299–310 (2014). <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0175-0</nowiki></ref>

== Demography==
Approximately 1% of the United Kingdom population identifies as asexual.<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490409552235 Asexuality: Prevalence and associated factors in a national probability sample]</ref> In the USA, as much as half of adult [[virgins]] in their late twenties identify as asexual.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947171/ Haydon, A. A., Cheng, M. M., Herring, A. H., McRee, A.-L., & Halpern, C. T. (2013). Prevalence and Predictors of Sexual Inexperience in Adulthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(2), 221–230]. doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0164-3</ref>
==See also==
*[[Homosexuality]]
* [[Demographics of inceldom]]
*[[Aromantic]]
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