Concordance Between Romantic Orientations and Sexual Attitudes: Comparing Allosexual and Asexual Adults

@article{Clark2022ConcordanceBR,
  title={Concordance Between Romantic Orientations and Sexual Attitudes: Comparing Allosexual and Asexual Adults},
  author={Alyssa N. Clark and Corinne Zimmerman},
  journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior},
  year={2022},
  volume={51},
  pages={2147 - 2157},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:247955047}
}
Sexual and romantic orientations are often considered one and the same, and attitudes about engaging in sexual behavior are assumed to be predominantly positive. The current study explored the concordance between sexual and romantic orientations among allosexual and asexual adults as well as the frequency with which they identify as having a sex-positive, sex-neutral, or sex-averse attitude. As expected, allosexual adults were largely sex-positive (82%) and almost all (89%) had a romantic… 
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