Asexuality: A Mixed-Methods Approach
@article{Brotto2010AsexualityAM, title={Asexuality: A Mixed-Methods Approach}, author={Lori Anne Brotto and Gail Knudson and J. Hampden Inskip and Katherine T. Rhodes and Yvonne Erskine}, journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior}, year={2010}, volume={39}, pages={599-618} }
Current definitions of asexuality focus on sexual attraction, sexual behavior, and lack of sexual orientation or sexual excitation; however, the extent to which these definitions are accepted by self-identified asexuals is unknown. The goal of Study 1 was to examine relationship characteristics, frequency of sexual behaviors, sexual difficulties and distress, psychopathology, interpersonal functioning, and alexithymia in 187 asexuals recruited from the Asexuality Visibility and Education…
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