Question: Storms’ Model is a model of sexual orientation proposed by psychologist Michael Storms in 1978. Can we verify this model? Do asexuals experience low or no sexual attraction?
Storms’ original diagram
Tag Archives: non-aces
Sexuality of non-ace respondents
Previously, we showed some results on both the sexuality and sexual politics of ace respondents. Here we compare ace respondents to non-ace respondents, keeping in mind that the non-ace respondents to our survey are not representative of the population in general. Continue reading
Sexuality and Sexual politics
Question: How is one’s sexuality related to one’s sexual politics?
Asexuality refers to personal experiences, and not whether they think there’s too much sex in society. But unsurprisingly, personal experiences and attitudes can be correlated. Here we seek to identify which aspects of sexuality are correlated with political attitudes, and explore those connections. Continue reading
Cross-orientations among non-aces
Question: Are non-asexual respondents identifying with mismatching sexual and romantic orientation labels?
The asexual community has long recognized the possibility of any combination of romantic and sexual orientations, such as heteroromantic asexual or biromantic homosexual. And in recent years, there’s been a push for the aromantic spectrum to be recognized independently from the asexual spectrum. We’d like to estimate the number of non-aces who have applied these ideas to themselves. Continue reading