Understanding Sexual Orientation

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Many studies show people in romantic relationships feel less lonely than single people.

These studies often focused only on heterosexual and homosexual couples.

A new study investigated the effect of romantic relationships on loneliness in asexual people.

Romantic relationships improve psychological well-being for most people—but do they for everyone?

It has been shown in many scientific studies that high-quality romantic relationships with a loving partner have several psychological benefits, including increased psychological well-being and, crucially, a reduction of loneliness. However, it must be pointed out that these studies mostly focused on heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual people. One group that has largely been neglected in research on the psychological benefits of romantic relationships is asexual people. Asexual people are a sexual minority (up to 3% of people are asexual) which does not feel sexual attraction or desire to other people. Despite that fact, asexual people........

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