I’m unclear on the distinction between “sexual orientation” and “romantic orientation”. I can understand the distinction between “sex” and “romance”, but the two are strongly connected to each other. Are there people who want sex with one gender, but romance (whatever that means without sex) with the other? The Wikipedia article, um, isn’t helping me.
My impression is that a person’s romantic orientation is almost always a sub- or superset of their sexual orientation. At any rate I don’t recall hearing of anyone who identified otherwise. But the inclusion can go either way (e.g. asexual but homororomantic, or bisexual but heteroromantic). They’re strongly correlated but distinct.
I’m unclear on the distinction between “sexual orientation” and “romantic orientation”. I can understand the distinction between “sex” and “romance”, but the two are strongly connected to each other. Are there people who want sex with one gender, but romance (whatever that means without sex) with the other? The Wikipedia article, um, isn’t helping me.
My impression is that a person’s romantic orientation is almost always a sub- or superset of their sexual orientation. At any rate I don’t recall hearing of anyone who identified otherwise. But the inclusion can go either way (e.g. asexual but homororomantic, or bisexual but heteroromantic). They’re strongly correlated but distinct.
There are also non-asexual people who are a- or demi-romantic.