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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the National Coming Out Day.

Find out how "out" our 2022 ace respondents were to different groups.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #NationalComingOutDay

53.1% of aces were out to all their current partners, while 26.1% were not out to any of their partners. Almost a quarter (23.0%) of ace respondents were out to all their ex-partners, and 45.5% had not disclosed their ace identity at all to their ex-partners.
29.9% of ace respondents were out to all people in their household, while 22.9% were out to all their parents. Few ace respondents (5.2%) were out to all other family members.
The majority of ace respondents were out to either all (45.5%), most (28.4%), or few (17.4%) of their LGBTQIA+ friends. Slightly more than three quarters (78.5%) of ace respondents were also out to at least a few of their non-LGBTQIA+ friends.
Ace respondents were rarely out to counselors (17.9% to all, 62.4% to none) teachers and school staff (2.4% to all, 81.6% to none), coworkers (3.8% to all, 69.5% to none), and medical professionals (6.6% to all, 68.9% to none).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 2d

Today is World Mental Health Day.

As part of out 2022 survey, we asked about the mental health diagnosis that applied to our respondents.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #mentalhealth #worldmentalhealthday

Over one third of ace respondents (36.2%) reported having been diagnosed professionally with an anxiety disorder, 31.1% with a depressive disorder, 14.8% with ADHD or ADD and 10.4% with autism spectrum.
Similar percentages of ace respondents reported having been professionally or self-diagnosed with PTSD (8.6% professionally diagnosed, 8.3% self-diagnosed), OCD (4.8% and 5.0%, respectively), and any personality disorder (2.4% and 2.0%). In contrast, around twice as many ace respondents had self-diagnosed with an eating disorder and behavioral addiction (9.0% and 2.9% respectively) than had been professionally diagnosed (4.8% and 0.8% respectively).
Under 5% of ace respondents had been professionally diagnosed or self-diagnosed with bipolar disorder (1.9% and 0.8%, respectively), a psychotic disorder (0.9% and 0.7%, respectively), substance-related addiction (0.6% and 1.6%, respectively), and HSDD or SI/AD (0.1% and 0.6% respectively).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 12d

There are a lot of countries that are underrepresented in our survey. Want to boost your country's numbers? The 2025 survey is just around the corner!

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Nearly half of all ace survey respondents (46.5%) were from the United States of America. The next most commonly selected countries were the United Kingdom (8.7%), Germany (7.7%), Canada (6.1%), Australia (3.1%), Brazil (2.7%), and Italy (2.0%). Aces also responded from the Netherlands (1.9%), France (1.7%), Spain (1.7%), Poland (1.6%), Russia (1.3%), and other countries (15.0%).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 22d

What is the most common gender identity of our ace respondents?

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #gender #nonbinary #trans #transgender

When asked to describe their gender identity, over half of ace respondents selected “Woman or female” (53.1%), over a quarter identified as nonbinary (28.6%), and around one in six identified as agender (17.0%), “Man or male” (16.1%), or genderqueer (13.0%). Other gender identities selected by aces included genderfluid (8.5%), demigirl (5.7%), androgynous (5.5%), demiboy (2.9%), bigender (1.4%), or neutrois (1.3%). Among aces, 15.4% were questioning or unsure of their gender, 6.5% selected “No gender,” 0.3% selected “None of the above,” and 5.5% provided another write-in response.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Sep 10

TW: Suicide

Today marks World Suicide Prevention Day.

During our 2022 survey, we examined the number of aces with suicidal ideation.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #suicideprevention #mentalhealth

Ace respondents who answered questions about suicide were asked if, during the previous 12 months, they had seriously considered attempting suicide. Of these respondents, 22.9% did consider attempting suicide. Moreover, 68.4% had not considered attempting suicide. The remaining 8.7% of ace respondents were unsure if they had.

Ace respondents who had specifically thought about suicide were also analyzed. While more than four in five (81.4%) of respondents who indicated that they had thought about suicide had attempted suicide zero times in the past 12 months, the percentage of ace respondents who had attempted suicide one time (8.7%) was four times higher compared to all aces who answered the questions about suicide (2.1%). Furthermore, aces who had thought about suicide had actually attempted suicide two or three times (5.2%) at a rate five times higher than all aces that answered questions about suicide (1.2%). Aces that thought about suicide had actually attempted it four or five times (1.2%) or six or more times (1.0%). Among aces who thought about suicide, 2.5% were unsure if they had attempted suicide.

While 19.7% of ace respondents who thought about and attempted suicide needed medical treatment by a doctor or a nurse, 76.0% did not need to be treated. The remaining 4.3% of ace respondents who had thought about and attempted suicide were not sure if their attempt resulted in an injury.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Sep 9

Help us with the last stretch!

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Call for translation volunteers

Thanks to all translator volunteers, we have translated the Ace Community Survey into more than 15 languages!

We are, however, missing a few key documents in Polish and Turkish.

We need to proofread the survey and complete two missing documents in the next 2 weeks. If you are available and want to help, please DM us your email and we will reach out to you shortly!

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today is the US Labor Day.

Our 2022 analysis explored the employment conditions of participants.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #LaborDay #JobSurvey

When asked about employment status, over one in three ace respondents indicated that they were full time students (38.1%), constituting the largest proportion of respondents. The next largest group was those who were employed and working full time (29.4%), followed by those who were employed and working part time (18.0%). Nearly two in three aces (60.9%) were employed in some capacity, and approximately one in five were unemployed due to various reasons (21.8%).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Visibility Day!

Where do our respondents go to find their favorite aromantic content? Check below!

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #content #community

When asked about aromantic-spectrum content, a third of ace respondents reported engaging with aro communities on Tumblr (38.7%), YouTube (36.4%), and Reddit (30.0%). One in five ace respondents interacted with aro communities in chat rooms (26.0%), on Instagram (26.0%), TikTok (23.7%), and Twitter (20.9%). Under ten percent of aces engaged with podcasts (9.4%), AUREA (8.3%), Facebook (6.8%), and Arocalypse (3.9%). The remaining 3.4% of ace respondents read or watched content from aromantic-spectrum communities on other platforms.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Aug 18

TW: Sex

Have our 2022 respondents had sex? Would they have opted out if they have had more information?

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #sex

The majority of ace respondents (60.9%) had never had consensual sex, while 37.1% had. Only 2.0% of respondents answered “Unsure.” This might include aces who were unsure whether their experiences were sexual in nature, as well as those who were unsure whether their sexual experiences were fully consensual.

A closer look within the ace subgroups shows that close to half of the asexual (48.3%), graysexual (46.1%), and questioning (46.2%) respondents had engaged in sexual activity that they would have declined. Conversely, 41.7% of demisexual respondents indicated they had engaged in sexual activity that they would not have declined.

Nearly half of ace respondents (47.3%) indicated that they had engaged in consensual sexual activity that they would have declined had they known about options or identities available to them. Over a third (35.9%) did not. Only 16.8% answered “Unsure.”

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Aug 10

TW: Conversion Therapy

Have you ever beed advised to undergo, offered or undergone conversion therapy?

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality

Participants were asked if they had ever been advised to undergo, offered, or undergone “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for either an ace identity or a non-ace LGBTQ identity. Fewer than one in ten ace respondents reported that they had been advised to undergo (7.8%) or had been offered (3.1%) “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity. Slightly fewer had been advised to undergo (4.2%) or offered (1.8%) “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for a non-ace LGBTQ identity.

A higher percentage of transgender and/or nonbinary (TNB) ace respondents had been advised to undergo, been offered, or undergone “conversion” or “reparative” therapy compared to aces and LGBPQ aces. Specifically, 10.2% of TNB aces had been advised to undergo and 3.9% had been offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity, while 7.9% had been advised to undergo and 3.5% had been offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for a non- ace LGBTQ identity. Additionally, more LGBPQ aces had been advised to undergo, been offered, or undergone “conversion” or “reparative” therapy compared to aces. Among LGBPQ aces, 8.7% had been advised to undergo and 3.4% had been offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity, and 5.4% had been advised to undergo and 2.5% had been offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for a non-ace LGBTQ identity.
Similar numbers of aces, LGBPQ aces, and TNB aces had undergone “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity (0.5%, 0.6%, and 0.6%, respectively) or for a non-ace LGBTQ identity (0.6%, 0.7%, and 0.8%, respectively).

The age group of ace respondents with the highest frequency of reporting having been offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity was those ages 35 to 44 (4.4%), while the frequency among other age groups was below 4.0%.
Aces aged 45 and up had the lowest frequency among all age groups of being advised to undergo or being offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity (3.9% and 1.6%, respectively), but the highest frequency of having undergone “conversion” or “reparative”therapy for an ace identity (1.2%). A similar pattern held for “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for non-ace LGBTQ identity: aces aged 45 and up had the lowest frequency of having been advised to undergo “conversion” or “reparative” therapy (2.8% of ages aged 45 and up) and the second-lowest frequency of having been offered “conversion” or “reparative” therapy (1.6%), but the highest frequency of having undergone “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for a non-ace LGBTQ identity (1.6%). The lowest percentage of aces who reported that they had actually undergone “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for an ace identity was those aged 13 to 17 (0.7%).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Aug 3

Happy National Friendship Day!

Today we want to share with you the different types of attractions our ace respondents are familiar with or experience.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #attraction

When asked about terminology related to attraction, over nine out of ten of aces were familiar with the terms “aesthetic attraction” (94.2%) and “platonic attraction” (91.4%). Around three out of four aces were familiar with the terms “emotional attraction” (79.6%), “intellectual attraction” (75.6%), “sensual attraction” (72.8%), and “queerplatonic attraction” (69.9%). Less than a third of aces were familiar with the term “alterous attraction” (30.5%). Among aces, 2.8% were not familiar with any of the terms, and 0.7% provided a write-in response.

Nearly nine out of ten aces who were familiar with aesthetic attraction indicated that they had experienced it themselves (87.2%). The same was true for over three quarters who were familiar with platonic attraction (80.2%) or emotional attraction (77.5%). Around two thirds of those who were familiar with intellectual attraction had experienced it (63.1%). Just over half who were familiar with the terms sensual attraction (53.8%), alterous attraction (53.0%), or queerplatonic attraction (50.2%) had experienced them.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jul 23

As part of the 2022 survey report, we explored the racial and/or ethnic categories our respondents identified with.

The full report and the most recent translations are available in our bio.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #race

Four out of five aces (81.4%) identified as white or of European descent. Less than one in ten aces identified as Hispanic (8.3%) or Mixed (7.4%), while less than one in twenty identified as East Asian (5.0%) or Jewish (4.2%). A smaller percentage identified as Southeast Asian (2.6%), South Asian (2.3%), Black and/or diaspora (2.2%), North American Native (1.5%), Middle Eastern (1.3%), Black African (1.0%), Black Caribbean (0.8%), South/Central American Native (0.4%), Pacific Islander (0.4%), North African (0.3%), or Aboriginal Australian (0.1%). Among aces, 1.4% identified as another race or ethnicity.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy Nonbinary People's Day!

Curious about how many of our ace respondents consider themselves in the nonbinary umbrella? What terms do they use to describe their gender?

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #nonbinary

When asked whether they identified as nonbinary or considered themselves to be part of the nonbinary umbrella, a third of ace respondents (34.4%) indicated yes, while 15.9% were unsure if they did. Almost half of ace respondents (49.6%) did not identify as nonbinary.

When asked about words used to describe their gender identity, over three out of four (78.2%) nonbinary aces described themselves as nonbinary. Nearly two out of five (38.3%) identified as agender, about a third (30.6%) identified as genderqueer, and one in five (20.5%) identified as genderfluid. Among nonbinary aces, 17.2% identified as “Woman or female” and 11.1% identified as “Man or male,” while 9.9% identified as a demigirl and 6.9% identified as a demiboy. Additionally, 11.1% identified as androgynous, 3.4% identified as neutrois and 3.3% identified as bigender. One in seven nonbinary aces specified “No gender” (14.8%) or were questioning or unsure of their identity (14.1%), while 0.4% indicated none of the options above, and 10.9% wrote in a different option.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jul 11

We received a great amount of responses and we will reach out to some of you over the weekend, keep an eye on your e-mail!
Still looking for volunteers for: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (BR&EU), Russian, Slovak, Swedish, and Turkish! 🌈

#translation #ace

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jul 7

#acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #translate #translators

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jul 7

‪The Ace Community Survey Team is currently looking for new volunteers to translate the survey! ✨ 🖋️

If you’re interested, please fill out this form forms.gle/vYDYFubxJaUJ... by July 16th. If you’d like more information, you may contact us at [email protected] ✉️

#asexual #asexuality #ace

2025 Ace Community Survey Volunteer Form - Translators

Thank you for your interest in volunteering for the Ace Community Survey Team! We are getting ready to release the 2025 Survey for Ace Week, and we would love to include as many languages as possible....

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jul 6

Discover when aces began identifying with their sexual identity in our plot below!

This is part of our 2022 survey report. Find the full report and translations in our bio.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality

Violin plot titled “Age when…”

At the time of the survey, the median age of ace respondents was 23 years old. The median age of first identifying with their sexual identity was 18 years old for ace respondents. The median age when ace respondents indicated that they first participated in an asexual community was 19 years old. In general, while some ace respondents began identifying with their sexual identity in early adolescence, the majority were in their late teens. A smaller number of aces also participated in an asexual community in their early teens; however, many of them began doing so in their late teens or early twenties.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jun 26

TW: Drugs

Today is the World Drug Day.

During our 2022 survey we explored the use of recreational drugs among aces.

The full report and the most recent translations are available in our bio.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality

Bar plot titled “When was the last time you used the following recreational drugs?”.

When asked when they last used alcohol, almost half of ace respondents (43.46%) reported that they had never used alcohol in the 12 months before answering the survey. Meanwhile, 17.43% of ace respondents had used alcohol in the previous 12 months, 14.21% had used it in the previous four weeks, and 24.90% had used it in the previous week.

When asked when they last used marijuana, 83.04% of ace respondents reported that they had never used it in the previous 12 months. However, 8.13% had used marijuana in the previous 12 months, 2.85% in the previous four weeks, and 5.98% in the previous week.

When asked about other recreational drug use, more than nine in ten ace respondents reported that they had never used tobacco (92.40%), nicotine vaping (94.52%), prescription drugs for recreational use (96.70%), other non-injection recreational drugs (96.67%), and other injectable recreational drugs (99.64%) in the previous 12 months.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hope you're enjoying Pride Month!

Our 2022 respondents used diverse labels under the ace umbrella. Check the plots below!

The full report and most recent translations are available in our bio.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality

Pie charts titled “Which of the following sexual orientation labels do you most closely identify with?”.

Among those who considered themselves on the asexual spectrum, two out of three (68.9%) identified with the asexual label more closely, with “demisexual” (11.1%) and “graysexual” (10.5%) being the next choices.

Three out of four of those who were unsure if they were ace (77.4%) most closely identified with the questioning label, and “demisexual” was the second most common label in the group (9.5%).

Pie charts titled “Write-ins to ace spectrum identity question”.

Among aces, 3.1% wrote in a different ace spectrum identity. In total, 151 aces identified as aegosexual, 55 as ace-spec, 35 as aceflux, and 16 as apothisexual, or sex-repulsed. Additional write-in identities included cupiosexual, quoisexual, fraysexual, lithosexual/akoisexual, abrosexual, acespike, caedsexual, reciprosexual, and other terms such as acefluid, iamvanosexual, fictosexual, orchidsexual, and oriented asexual.

Bar plot titled “How often do you currently participate in offline asexual communities?”.

This question used a Likert scale to answer how strongly the respondents identified with their identity labels. The scale ranged from 0 to 4, with 0 labeled “Not strongly at all” and 4 labeled “Very strongly.” When asked how strongly ace respondents identified with the asexual spectrum label they chose, two out of three (67.0%) asexuals answered that they identified with it very strongly. Over two in five ace respondents who identified as demisexual did so very strongly (43.9%). A relative minority of graysexual aces (29.9%) and questioning aces (27.8%) also reported feeling a very strong identification with such label, but the majority chose “3,” the next level on the scale (49.3% of graysexual ace and 40.6% of questioning ace respondents). More than half of ace respondents who chose other ace spectrum labels (52.3%) identified very strongly with their labels as well.

The ace respondents that identified the least with their ace spectrum labels were the questioning ones, with 5.6% selecting “1” and 2.5% selecting “0 - Not strongly at all” answers. Two percent or less of aces in other groups selected either level.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jun 6

As part of our 2022 survey, we explored how aces interact with offline ace communities.

The full analysis and the most recent translations are available in our bio.

#community
#asexual
#asexuality
#ace
#acecommunitysurvey
#demisexual
#demisexuality
#graysexual
#graysexuality

Pie chart titled “Met an ace person offline”.
Two thirds (66.8%) of ace respondents had met an asexual spectrum identifying person offline, compared to 25.0% of aces who had not. The remaining 8.2% of ace participants were unsure if they had met an asexual or asexual spectrum identifying person offline.

Pie chart titled “Have an ace friend”.
Over half (60.9%) of ace responses had friends who identified as asexual or were on the asexual spectrum. However, 30.2% of aces did not have friends who identified on the asexual spectrum. The remaining 8.9% of aces were unsure if they had friends who were asexual or on the asexual spectrum.

Pie chart titled “How often do you currently participate in offline asexual communities?”.
The vast majority (81.8%) of ace respondents had never participated in offline asexual groups. However, 18.2% of aces had participated in offline asexual communities, with 12.0% aces participating a few times a year or less. Around two percent of ace respondents participated once a month (2.5%) or a few times a month (2.4%), while under one percent were involved a few times a week (0.8%) or at least once per day (0.5%).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy Pride Month!

In our 2022 survey, we explored the sexual and romantic orientation labels that our respondents use.

The full report and the most recent translations are available in our bio.

#asexual
#asexuality
#ace
#acecommunitysurvey
#demisexual
#demisexuality
#graysexual
#graysexuality

Bar plot titled "Which of the following sexual orientation labels do you currently identify with?"

Among aces, 83.4% of respondents identified as asexual. The next highest percentage was the three in ten respondents who identified as queer (32.5%). Almost one in five respondents identified as graysexual (19.0%) or demisexual (18.9%), while 13.1% identified as aegosexual/autochorissexual. One in twelve ace respondents were bisexual (8.7%) or questioning (8.4%). Under 6% of respondents were homosexual/lesbian/gay (5.4%), sexually attracted to men (5.0%), sexually attracted to women (4.7%), pansexual (4.5%), heterosexual or straight (4.2%), aceflux (4.1%), sexually attracted to non-binary people (4.0%), sexually attracted to masculinity (3.8%), sexually attracted to femininity (3.8%), sexually attracted to androgyny (3.8%), or preferred not to use sexual orientation terminology (2.1%).

Bar plot titled "Which (if any) of the following romantic orientation labels do you currently identify with?"

Of ace respondents, around a third were aromantic (38.7%) or queer (31.2%). One in five (21.0%) ace respondents were questioning their romantic orientation. Ten percent or more of ace respondents identified as demiromantic (18.2%), biromantic (16.6%), romantically attracted to men (14.6%) gray-romantic or gray- aromantic (14.6%), panromantic (13.7%), romantically attracted to women (13.1%), romantically attracted to non-binary people (11.1%), or heteromantic/straight (10.0%). However, less than one in ten ace respondents were romantically attracted to femininity (9.0%), romantically attracted to androgyny (8.9%), romantically attracted to masculinity (8.8%), or homoromantic/lesbian/gay (8.2%). Under four percent of ace respondents were aegoromantic (3.7%), aroflux (3.4%), or preferred to not use romantic orientation terminology (3.4%). An additional 4.4% identified as something else.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · May 25

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#demisexual
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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · May 25

In our 2022 survey, we asked participants if they were interested in pursuing another romantic or intimate relationship in addition to the ones they currently have.

The full report and the most recent translations can be found in our bio.

Pie chart titled "Are you currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship (apart
from those you already have)?".

When asked if they were currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship, half (50.6%) of ace respondents reported they were not, but would be open to one. However, 40.6% of ace respondents expressed they were not looking and did not want a partnered or intimate relationship. Only 8.9% of ace respondents reported actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship.

Bar chart titled "Are you currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship (apart
from those you already have)?".

When ace respondents were asked if they were currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship and their responses were analyzed by identity, graysexual and demisexual reported “yes” most often to the question (12.8% and 13.4%, respectively).

Similarly, over half of both graysexual (55.9%) and demisexual (53.2%) participants represented the highest rate of those not currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship but being open to one. Half of asexuals (50.3%) reported not looking but open to the idea, while another 41.5% reported that they were not looking and did not want one.

However, aro ace respondents expressed different desires from all other identity categories: half of them (50.0%) were not currently actively looking for a relationship and did not want one, and only 4.4% of them reported currently actively looking for a relationship. Out of all participants, aro aces represented the highest and lowest percentages for these options.

Bar chart titled "Are you currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship (apart
from those you already have)?".

54.2% of ace respondents aged 18 to 24 were not looking for a partnered or intimate relationship but were open to one. Similarly, 46.6% of aces aged 13 to 17, 49.7% of aces aged 25 to 34, and 45.3% of aces aged 35 to 44 were also not looking for partnered or intimate relationships but were open to one.

Among aces aged 13 to 17, the percentage of those who were not looking for a relationship but were open to the idea (46.6%) was similar but slightly higher when compared to those who were not looking and did not want a relationship (45.5%). Among ace respondents aged 35 to 44 and aged 45 and up, a higher percentage reported that they were not currently actively looking for a partnered or intimate relationship and did not want one when compared to those who were open to the idea (47.4% and 52.7%, respectively).

While each age group presented different rates of interest (or lack thereof) in being open to or not wanting a partnered or intimate relationship, aces who reported that they were actively looking for one were always in the minority, regardless of their reported age. The largest percentage of those actively looking for a partnered relationship was among aces aged 25 to 34 (10.6%), while the smallest was among aces aged 35-44 (7.3%).

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · May 17

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