What Do Asexual Women Want? A Propensity Score Matching Study of Preferred Relationship Options and Ideal Partner Preferences.

Paula C Bange, Laura J Botzet, Amanda A Shea, Virginia J Vitzthum, Tanja M Gerlach

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Paula C BangeDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Simon Building S314, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands. P.C.Bange@tilburguniversity.edu.ORCID 0009-0007-2171-5151

Laura J BotzetBiological Personality Psychology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.

Amanda A SheaClue By BioWink GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

Virginia J VitzthumCEMCOR, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Tanja M GerlachLeibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg, Germany.

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Research on whether asexual individuals desire (romantic) relationships and, if so, how they picture their ideal relationship has been growing in the past few years. However, less is known about the preferred attributes of an ideal partner in such relationships and whether these partner(ship) preferences are different from what heterosexual individuals want. The goal of the present study was to compare the types of preferred relationships and the ideal characteristics of a long-term partner of self-identified asexual and heterosexual women. Additionally, we examined differences in characteristics of asexual and heterosexual women using self-evaluations of the same attributes used for the partner preference ratings. We used data from the Ideal Partner Survey, a large-scale, multinational online study. Of 51,775 participants, 51,328 identified as heterosexual (M

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Choice BehaviorInterpersonal RelationsSexual BehaviorSexual PartnersAdultFemaleHeterosexualityHumansPropensity ScoreSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultAsexualityIdeal partner preferencesPersonalityPreferred relationship optionsPropensity score matching

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PMID41644861

DOI10.1007/s10508-025-03365-2

PMCPMC12917066

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