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One percent of the world's people are asexuals
Monday August 20, 2012 06:38:22 PM,
IANS
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London: Around one
percent of the world's population or 70 million people are "asexuals"
-- people who feel no sexual attraction at all, an expert has
said.
Anthony Bogaert, an associate professor at Brock University in
Canada, said the sexualisation of culture has turned people off
sexual feelings to the extent that millions do not have physical
attraction to others at all, the Daily Mail reported.
A book by Bogaert to be published next month, titled
"Understanding Asexuality", even suggests that the growing number
of asexuals should be classed as a "fourth sexual orientation".
Experts believe asexuals may have always existed but are only now
starting to come out as society becomes more liberal.
Bogaert defines asexuality as a complete lack of sexual
attraction.
"There are two forms -- people who have some level of sex drive,
but don't direct this drive toward others, and other people who
have no sex drive whatsoever," he said.
In 2004, Bogaert analysed the responses of 18,000 people in
Britain to a 1994 survey on sexual attraction.
He found that one percent agreed with the statement "I have never
felt sexually attracted to anyone at all".
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