Autism and Sexuality: Are They Related?

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If it's a question of orientation, though, asexual should be included to differentiate those who lack sexual attraction.

Asexual fits and is fine.

Transsexual is not an orientation, and people who are transsexual can have any orientation. It really shouldn't be in the list, and I can't imagine anyone getting upset if it wasn't.

I didn't vote because I didn't know what to pick.

In a way I could be asexual because I haven't had sex in almost 17 years and don't think I even want sex with a partner and haven't been attracted to a real person in real life in a long time.

I do sometimes get interested in and attracted to fictional characters. I'm not always me in my fantasies though and in my fantasies I think of male/male, female/female, and male/female (but never with me as male in male/female).

I actually had a naughty dream last night which is really rare for me.
If sex was that good in real life maybe I'd actually do it. Like most of my dreams of that nature it was about a vampire. I like vampires.

I'm primarily interested in women; I am biologically male (however I do have a somewhat androgynous appearance, I have one of those faces...) and intend to stay so, however I care very little for gender roles and I view myself as being a mixture of both genders. I feel somewhat in the middle; I've not really came out about it, but to be honest I don't really think I need to because it's what I am and I shouldn't have to place a label on it anyway.

Bisexual with leaning towards lesbian (I have a bf, though).

Homoromantic demisexual. Basically lesbian, but I am rarely attracted to people enough to care.

Opposite case for me. Sometimes I find men sexually attractive, but I feel no emotional connection to them at all.

However I find women both sexually and emotionally stimulating.

Good for you for embracing your sexuality!

I don't like male genitalia. I never have really. I prefer to close my eyes or look away when I'm with my husband. But I love him and love to kiss and hug him and, if I don't see it... then I can enjoy it. Otherwise, it's just something funny to look at and not at all sexually stimulating. I have never been with another woman, beyond kissing. I've kissed a lot of girls, but always have been afraid to try anything else... I guess I respect them more than I do men and am afraid to take things to the next level when the time comes, so I just get stuck on kissing. I love the female form though...on other women. Other girls have just never been romantically attracted to me, though, so it was easier finding a male partner to connect with romantically, and I still don't know just how it would go to actually have sex with a woman. I understand men better, anyway. I feel almost like I'm in a homosexual relationship with my husband sometimes with me just being a slightly effeminate man inside of a female body. He likes the female body, but he has agreed to let me lop off the majority of my breasts after we have a kid. He wants me to keep a B cup... but I might try for a large A cup. I've always hated them.
I also cycle in my attractions. Sometimes men actually are sexually attractive to me, but for the past year they haven't been, and like I said, I never really found their actual male parts attractive, so I dunno. It's weird.

That doesn't imply your orientation is a choice, it implies who you go out with is a choice. Which it is, even if you can't chose their gender.



In my case: I have never felt any feeling that I can reliably classify as 'sexual' in any way. I even tried rubbing my clitoris, and I got a twitchy feeling, but it wasn't at all pleasurable. I find some people (of either gender, though more often women) more physically attractive than others, but have no desire to do anything sexual with them. The thought of doing anything with anyone else's genitalia kind of grosses me out. I also have no desire for any sort of pair-bond.

First, the poll choices don't say who you choose to be attracted to. It's who you choose to have relationships with.

I do agree that saying "who you choose to find attractive" would be inappropriate wording. However, it seems appropriate to note that there is choice involved in who we find attractive. It's not a direct choice thing. And there are limits. But my choices of who I pay attention to and in what way affect who I find attractive. My choices of what attitude to have towards a person affect if I find that person attractive. And, maybe evenmoreso, affect how enduring that attraction is.

I partly agree. It does seem to be a spectrum. I do think I'm close enough to 100% hetero to call it that. And I also think that I am outside the norm in that. I notice that it's normal to have a hint of bisexuality precisely because I don't share that.

Not really. If you said transsexuals are either attracted to women, men, or both, or neither, just like everyone else, I'd agree.

But the heterosexual and homosexual labels require one's own gender/sex to be easily and simply defined, and so, it seems to me, don't really fit for a transsexual unless they've first clearly defined their gender/sex as male or female.

In other words, their sexuality is the same as non-transsexuals, but the usual labels don't fit as easily.

I'd describe myself as straight, I guess. Not to say I haven't been confused about it before. I've always known I'm attracted to girls. But then you have this sort of stigma that anything different than manly should be seen as gay, so until I found out about femdom I was unsure whether there was any sort of small hint of bisexuality in me. That said, I've never been attracted to males specifically, either mentally or physically, despite being curious.

The only person I am sexually attracted to is my husband (I am being completely honest here). I'm attracted to him, as a person, not a man. If this person I love was female, I would probably be attracted to her just the same. I'm not at all confused by my sexuality, probably because I don't even think about it - what's there to think about when you're in a monogamous relationship and not in the least bit tempted to stray? But, if I wasn't with him, I could be with any gender, I'm pretty sure about that. I suppose I'm pansexual/omnisexual, as bisexual doesn't describe my sexuality properly and does really not encompass people who are intersex.

In terms of who I am attracted to, mostly females but occasionally males (I'm male) probably in the range of 80%/30% respectively, though my attraction is usually quite low...

In terms of emotional attraction, doesn't really matter to me what gender they are as long as I like them.

In terms of actually having a sexual relationship, I suppose I am asexual by choice, because the concept of actually having sex with somebody makes me uncomfortable.

My orientation

Undefinable... f**k labels. There ya go.