What do you mean with “romantic orientation” as opposed to sexual orientation? I don’t think the term is well known and we already have enough questions about that domain
What gender/s you are romantically attracted to, and also how strongly you feel that attraction, see the Wikipedia page. It is mainly useful for asexuals (and also, I imagine, people who answer ‘other’), but it’s certainly possible to have a romantic orientation that doesn’t match your sexual orientation. Maybe it could be included as an optional write-in box, or at the end?
In the last survey, there were 47 asexuals and 39 ‘other’s. It is a useful distinction for asexuals and I imagine it would be useful for many ’other’s. Furthermore, as per philh’s reply to RichardKennaway’s comment, the distinction is probably useful for some non-asexual people.
Whether this is a sufficient number of people to add an extra question is a bit of a more thorny question. For comparison, there were 25 trans people in the last survey, fewer than the number of asexuals, and there are options for them in the gender question. Even if it’s too onerous to add to the main sex/gender/relationship section is too onerous, I think that it could find a happy home in an extra credit section.
What do you mean with “romantic orientation” as opposed to sexual orientation? I don’t think the term is well known and we already have enough questions about that domain
What gender/s you are romantically attracted to, and also how strongly you feel that attraction, see the Wikipedia page. It is mainly useful for asexuals (and also, I imagine, people who answer ‘other’), but it’s certainly possible to have a romantic orientation that doesn’t match your sexual orientation. Maybe it could be included as an optional write-in box, or at the end?
Could you provide a source for that claim that there is a sufficient number of people for which that distinction is useful?
In the last survey, there were 47 asexuals and 39 ‘other’s. It is a useful distinction for asexuals and I imagine it would be useful for many ’other’s. Furthermore, as per philh’s reply to RichardKennaway’s comment, the distinction is probably useful for some non-asexual people.
Whether this is a sufficient number of people to add an extra question is a bit of a more thorny question. For comparison, there were 25 trans people in the last survey, fewer than the number of asexuals, and there are options for them in the gender question. Even if it’s too onerous to add to the main sex/gender/relationship section is too onerous, I think that it could find a happy home in an extra credit section.
Okay, 86 people seems like enough to be able to separate them into smaller chunks.