We talk a lot about sexual orientation, but we don’t talk nearly enough about romantic orientation – that’s something Yasmin Benoit is trying to change.
Yasmin is an asexual and aromantic activist who is working tirelessly to make sure the world knows that not everybody experiences romantic attraction in the same way.
Part of the challenge for activists like Yasmin is that huge swathes of the population still don’t understand what aromanticism is. Many don’t even realise there’s a difference between sexual and romantic attraction.
Simply put, aromanticism describes people who feel little or no romantic attraction. Like all things it exists on a spectrum, and the term includes people who experience no romantic attraction at all and those who only experience it occasionally or in limited circumstances.