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Among ace participants, over three quarters (77.4%) spoke English in their everyday lives. This is slightly lower than the 83.8% of aces who spoke primarily English in the 2022 Survey (ACST, 2024). One in eight (12.7%) also spoke German, 7.4% spoke Spanish, 5.0% spoke French, and 3.8% spoke Italian. Less than three percent of participants spoke Mandarin Chinese (2.2%), Dutch (2.2%), Portuguese (2.2%), Polish (2.2%), Hungarian (1.3%), Finnish (1.3%), Russian (1.1%), or Danish (1.0%). Less than one percent spoke Swedish (0.9%), Japanese (0.8%), American Sign Language (0.8%), Cantonese (0.8%), Hindi (0.6%), Catalan (0.5%), Czech (0.5%), Hebrew (0.4%), Norwegian (0.4%), Korean (0.3%), Turkish (0.2%), or Bengali (0.2%). An additional 4.7% spoke another language.

Which languages do our 2024 respondents use in their everyday life?

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

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Nearly half of ace respondents read or watched ace-related content or posted in an ace or asexual spectrum community on YouTube in the past year (45.5%), making it the most popular platform, followed by Tumblr (39.7%), Instagram (36.5%), Reddit (34.2%), and Discord (30.2%). Fanfic websites (29.0%), AVEN (22.2%), TikTok (19.6%), podcasts (16.7%), Facebook (15.5%), and Twitter (15.3%) were other popular platforms where ace respondents participated online. To a lesser extent, other platforms where ace respondents read or watched ace-related content or posted in an ace or asexual spectrum community in the past year were Pinterest (9.6%), blogs (8.0%), non-English online ace communities (7.7%), WhatsApp (6.3%), Twitch (3.0%), Mastodon or other Fediverse platforms (2.8%), Telegram (2.8%), Fetlife (1.4%), and Amino (0.9%).

As part of our 2024 survey, we asked our respondents about their experience in online ace communities.

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

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Ace respondents were asked if they ever had thoughts of purposely hurting themselves without wanting to die. A third of ace respondents reported they did within the previous year (36.5%) while a fifth did over a year ago (21.0%). However, a third of aces reported not having thoughts to purposely harm themselves (36.6%). The remaining 5.9% of ace respondents were unsure if they had thoughts of purposely harming themselves or not.

When asked if they had ever actually purposely hurt themselves without wanting to die, almost half of ace respondents said “no” (49.5%). The percentage of those who said “yes” within the past year (20.6%) and over a year ago (23.9%) were similar.

TW: Self Harm

Two days ago was the self injury awareness day.

As part of our 2022 survey, we explored the experiences of our respondents with self harm.

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Volunteers needed: The Ace Community Survey team is currently looking for new volunteers to analyze the most recent survey data. Apply now: https://forms.gle/qsPZehz2aUPc3P4BA

We are looking for new volunteers to analyze the survey data!

We are interested in people with experience using Python. Experience with Jupyter notebooks, pandas and github is a plus.

Apply here (closes March, 23): forms.gle/qsPZehz2aUPc...

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When asked if respondents considered themselves to be on the aromantic spectrum, about half indicated that they did (51.4%), a third did not (30.3%), and about a fifth of respondents were unsure if they were on the aromantic spectrum (18.3%).

Happy Aro Week!

Do you want to know how many of our respondents are part of the aromantic spectrum?

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

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Among aces, 15.7% had experienced non-contact unwanted sexual experiences in the past twelve months. One in ten (10.3%) had experienced some form of contact sexual violence, while 9.6% had experienced unwanted sexual contact. Around one percent had experienced sexual coercion (1.0%), rape (1.0%), or another form of contact sexual violence (1.2%). Of the ace respondents, 6.7% reported experiencing sexual violence related to their ace identity. Three quarters of aces (74.3%) reported that they had not experienced any of the above in the past twelve months.

When analyzed by gender, the percentage of ace women and nonbinary aces who reported non- contact sexual experiences was more than double that of ace men (17.0%, 16.7%, and 6.9%, respectively), as was the percentage of those who reported experiencing rape (1.0%, 1.1%, and 0.4%, respectively). However, responses across the three groups were similar regarding other forms of sexual violence. Notably, a lower percentage of nonbinary aces reported experiencing sexual violence due to their ace identity than either ace women or ace men (5.6%, 7.7%, and 7.3%, respectively). Eight out of ten ace men had not had any unwanted sexual experiences in the past twelve months (82.6%), along with seven out of ten ace women (72.5%) and nonbinary aces (74.3%).

When analyzed by gender and sexual orientation, nearly one out of five ace trans women (19.9%) reported having non-contact unwanted sexual experiences in the past twelve months, followed closely by intersex aces (18.8%), LGBPQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual / polyromantic, or queer) ace respondents (18.4%), and a slightly lower percentage of transgender and/or nonbinary aces (16.6%) and ace trans men (13.3%). While experiences were similar across the gender spectrum, a higher percentage of ace trans women reported experiencing sexual violence in nearly every category, including unwanted sexual contact (13.1%), sexual coercion (2.3%), rape (1.8%, which tied with intersex aces), and other sexual violence (3.6%) compared to all other groups. A slightly higher percentage of LGBPQ ace respondents reported experiencing sexual violence related to their identity, followed by ace trans women (7.2% and 6.8%, respectively). Three quarters of ace trans men (77.3%) reported no unwanted sexual experiences in the past year, followed by 75.9% of intersex aces and 74.5% of trans/nonbinary aces. Seven out of ten LGBPQ aces (70.9%) and ace trans women (70.1%) had also not experienced any of the above.

TW: Sexual Violence, Rape, Abuse

This week is Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week.

As part of the 2024 survey, we asked our respondents about their experiences regarding sexual violence.

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

Die Ace Community Umfrage Eine jährliche Umfrage von und für die Ace Community

Our blog posts on the CDC's definition and classification of sexual violence (from 2018) and about extant aro surveys (from 2019) are now also available in German. You can find them on our website (acecommunitysurvey.org/de/).

Die Ace Community Umfrage Eine jährliche Umfrage von und für die Ace Community

Unsere Blogbeiträge zur Definition und Klassifizierung sexualisierter Gewalt (von 2018) und über bestehende aro Umfragen (von 2019) sind jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. Ihr könnt sie auf unserer Webseite finden (acecommunitysurvey.org/de/).

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Among ace respondents, one third had completed an undergraduate degree (33.5%), while one in five had completed a graduate degree (21.1%) and 3.7% had completed a vocational or trade program. Nearly a quarter (22.8%) had completed some form of higher education, while 13.4% had completed secondary education and 5.4% had completed less than secondary education. These results roughly correspond with the age of participants, where 37.3% of participants were within the age range of traditional college students (18–24) and 38.7% of participants were in the traditional age range of those immediately post-college or in graduate school (25– 34).

Today is International Day of Education

As part of the 2024 survey, we asked our respondents for their highest level of education

Full report and most recent translations are available in our bio.

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When asked where survey respondents first heard about asexuality and/or the ace spectrum, the most common response among ace respondents and respondents unsure if they were ace was “I don’t remember” (18.7% and 25.7%, respectively). Among ace respondents who remembered where they first heard of asexuality and/or the ace spectrum, Tumblr was the most common platform (15.4%), followed by friends or family (12.9%) and internet searching (11.6%). Among respondents who were unsure if they were ace, the top three locations were Tumblr (15.2%), friends or family (11.8%), and the LGBTQIA+ community (7.7%). The most commonly reported source where non-ace respondents first heard of asexuality and/or the ace spectrum was friends or family (19.5%), followed by Tumblr (18.1%), which ranked as the second most common response among all ace, unsure if ace, and non-ace respondents. The third most common response among non-ace respondents was “I don’t remember” (17.6%), which was the most common response among ace and unsure if ace respondents.

Do you remember where you first heard of the ace spectrum? Most of our 2024 respondents don't.

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When asked about previous partnered or intimate relationships, almost half of ace respondents (44.3%) responded that they had never had a partnered or intimate relationship that was romantic. Just below a third of ace respondents (30.1%) had been in a romantic relationship in the past, while 18.2% were currently in one at the time of the survey. A small percentage (5.0%) of ace respondents were unsure, and even fewer (2.3%) did not differentiate between romantic and non-romantic relationships.

When asked about previous partnered or intimate relationships, the vast majority of ace respondents (68.3%) had not had a non-romantic partnered or intimate relationship. One in nine ace respondents were unsure (11.8%) or had been in a non-romantic relationship in the past (11.1%). Even fewer ace respondents were in one currently (6.2%) or did not differentiate between romantic and non-romantic relationships (2.6%).

When looking at different identities and their responses to the previous two questions, a contrast between the responses to the two questions emerges. The answers to whether respondents had been in a non-romantic relationship were relatively similar regardless of identity, while the answers to whether respondents had been in a romantic relationship varied. A high percentage of non-ace respondents were in a romantic relationship currently (45.4%), followed by demisexual respondents (35.5%). Aro aces had the lowest percentage with 10.3% in a relationship currently, followed by asexuals with 15.4% of respondents. Over half of aro aces had never been in a romantic relationship (55.5%) along with about half of asexuals and aces (48.1% and 44.3%, respectively). Non-ace respondents featured the lowest percentage of respondents never being in a romantic relationship (20.3%), followed by demisexuals (23.2%) and graysexuals (28.8%).

Relationships come in all types and sized. For our 2022 survey, we checked the number of respondents that have had romantic and non-romantic relationships.

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The majority of ace respondents had participated in LGBTQ communities, with 42.8% of aces interacting both online and offline, and 26.9% just online. However, only 7.0% of aces had only participated in LGBTQ communities offline. Additionally, 23.3% of ace respondents had not participated in any form of LGBTQ community.

Over half (55.2%) of ace respondents reported that their experience in online LGBTQ communities had been mostly positive with some negative experiences. One in five (26.8%) ace respondents had a positive experience in online LGBTQ communities. Additionally, 13.7% of ace respondents had a neutral experience in online LGBTQ communities, 3.9% had a mostly negative experience with some positive experiences, and 0.4% had a negative experience. When asked about their offline experiences with LGBTQ communities, four in ten (43.6%) ace respondents had a positive experience, while a third of aces (37.6%) had a mostly positive experience with some negative experiences. Similarly to the previous question, 13.7% ace respondents had a neutral experience with offline LGBTQ communities. However, more aces had a mostly negative experience with some positive experiences (4.2%) or a negative experience (0.9%) in offline communities compared to online ones

As part of our 2022 survey we explored whether ace respondents participated in LGBTQ communities and their overally experience in them.

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Respondents were asked about their health status via their self-identification with the following labels: neurodivergent, mentally ill, disabled, chronically ill, physically disabled, cognitively disabled, blind or partially sighted, multiple/plural6, and Deaf or hard of hearing. Among the most prevalent responses, 45.0% of aces reported that they were neurodivergent, and 41.8% reported that they were mentally ill. Almost one in five ace respondents (18.9%) reported being disabled, with a similar number that reported they were chronically ill (14.8%). A smaller percentage of respondents reported being physically disabled (8.0%), cognitively disabled (6.9%), blind or partially sighted (3.6%), multiple/plural (3.1%), or deaf or hard of hearing (2.3%).

Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

In 2022, our respondents reported different disabilities.

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2 in 5 ace respondents (41.8%) never engage in sexual activity, 13.2% do it "1-2 times", 10.1% do it "3-5 times", 9.5% do it "6-10 times", 11.7% do it "11-25 times", 7.6% do it "26-50 times" and 6.2% do it "at least 50 times"

Across all asexual, demisexual, graysexual, and questioning subgroups, the percentage of respondents who had not had any consensual sexual encounters in the previous year ranges from 32.0% for demisexual to 45.6% for asexual respondents. Less variation is seen in the percentage of respondents who had consensual sexual activities once or twice in the previous year, ranging from 11.5% for demisexual to 16.0% for questioning respondents. In general, across all subgroups there is a decrease in the percentages as the frequency increases. For example, among asexual respondents, 13.0% indicated they had engaged in consensual sex “1-2 times,” but only 5.3% reported engaging “at least 50 times.” A notable exception is seen in demisexual respondents’ answers, in which the variation is more limited, from 11.5% for “1-2 times” to 9.2% for “at least 50 times,” peaking at 16.0% who selected “11- 25 times.”

TW: Sex

Our 2022 ace respondents engage in sexual activities with very different frequency. Check below!

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Among aces, nearly a quarter (24.5%) identified as transgender or considered themselves to be part of the trans umbrella. A further 13.1% were unsure if they identified this way. Over three out of five aces (62.4%) stated that they were not trans.

Among transgender aces, over two thirds (69.1%) identified as nonbinary. A third also identified as agender (32.4%) or genderqueer (31.6%). One in five (20.6%) identified as genderfluid, and one in nine (11.0%) identified as androgynous. A quarter (23.3%) identified as “Man or male” and one in ten (11.8%) identified as “Woman or female.” Other identities selected by transgender aces included demiboy (8.7%), demigirl (6.0%), bigender (3.8%), and neutrois (3.3%). One in eight (12.5%) transgender aces indicated “No gender,” while one in eleven (8.9%) were questioning or unsure of their gender. An additional 0.4% of transgender aces indicated that they did not identify with any of the labels above and 13.2% wrote in their own responses.

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

As part of our 2022 survey, we explored how many of our ace respondents identified under the trans umbrella and their gender.

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This question used a Likert scale to answer how strongly respondents rated the strength of their sex drive/libido on a scale of 0 to 4, with “0” being nonexistent and “4” being very strong. When asked about sex drive/libido, 17.3% of ace respondents rated theirs at a “0,” or nonexistent. About twice as many (37.6%) rated their sex drive/libido at a “1,” while 27.2% rated theirs as a “2,” 13.4% rated theirs at a “3,” and very few ace respondents (4.5%) rated theirs at a “4.” Non-ace respondents contrasted sharply, with about a quarter (24.8%) ranking their sex drive/libido at a “4” (very strong), and 41.2% at a “3.” About a quarter of non-aces (23.6%) ranked their sex drive/libido at a “2,” and 9.6% ranked it at a “1.” Very few non-ace respondents (0.8%) responded with “0” or nonexistent libido.

This question used a Likert scale to answer how strongly respondents rated the strength of their sex drive/libido on a scale of 0 to 4, with “0” being nonexistent and “4” being very strong. Among asexual respondents, about one in five rated their sex drive/libido at a “0,” or nonexistent (19.7%). In comparison far fewer graysexual (6.3%) and demisexual (4.9%) respondents ranked theirs at a “0.” Fewer than one in ten respondents across these groups ranked their sex drive/libido at a “4” (very strong), ranging from 3.7% of asexual respondents to 7.5% of demisexual respondents. The majority of asexual, graysexual and demisexual respondents ranked their sex drive/libido at either a “1” or “2” (64.7% of asexual respondents, 71.1% of graysexual respondents and 68.6% of demisexual respondents).

This question used a Likert scale to answer how strongly respondents rated the strength of their sex drive/libido on a scale of 0 to 4, with “0” being nonexistent and “4” being very strong. Among aro ace respondents, about one in five rated their sex drive/libido at a “0,” or nonexistent (19.8%). In comparison, just over one in ten ace but not aro respondents (12.4%) ranked their sex drive/libido at a “0”. The majority of aro ace, and ace but not aro respondents ranked their sex drive/libido at either a “1” or “2” (61.7% of aro ace respondents, and 69.1% of ace not aro respondents).

How strong is your sex drive/libido, typically?

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Almost one in four (24.5%) ace respondents had never participated in an asexual community. However, over ten percent of ace respondents reported first participating on Tumblr (16.4%) or Reddit (13.6%). More than five percent of aces first participated in chat rooms (9.6%), AVEN’s English-language content (8.6%), and Instagram (5.2%). Around four percent of ace participants first engaged on Facebook (4.2%), offline asexual groups (4.1%), or Twitter (4.0%). To a lesser extent, ace participants also first engaged on YouTube (1.6%), TikTok (1.5%), and non-English asexual forums (1.5%).

Which ace communities do you believe to be more popular to start?

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The 2025 Ace Community Survey has been released! tinyurl.com/AceSurvey2025

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Among aces, 1.3% reported that they were intersex or had been born with physical differences in sex anatomy. A further 6.5% were unsure if they had these differences. The majority of aces (92.2%) did not report intersex characteristics.

Today is the Intersex Awareness Day.

Some of out 2022 ace respondents were also intersex. Check the number!

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The 2025 Ace Community Survey has been released! tinyurl.com/AceSurvey2025

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As part of our celebration of Ace Week 2025, and in addition to the 2024 Ace Community Survey Summary Report, we are thrilled to share the German translation of the 2020 Ace Community Survey Summary Report with you. You can find the link in our bio.

Zur Feier der Ace Woche 2025 freuen wir uns, neben dem Zusammenfassenden Bericht zur Ace Community Umfrage 2024 (Englisch), die deutsche Übersetzung des Zusammenfassenden Berichts zur Ace Community Umfrage 2020 mit euch zu teilen. Ihr findet den Link in unserer Bio.

We are pleased to present the summary report from our 2024 Ace Community Survey, which marked the 10-year anniversary of the first survey that was released in 2014!

You can find the link in our bio.

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The respondents were asked where they first became aware of this year’s survey. Two out of five participants learned about the survey from Tumblr (20.0%). Over ten percent of respondents discovered the 2022 survey on chat rooms (16.9%), Reddit (13.1%), Twitter (11.2%), and Instagram (10.6%). A small percentage of participants learned from friends or family (5.3%), e- mail (5.4%), and Facebook (3.6%). Additionally, 6.2% of participants learned about the survey using other platforms, while the remaining 0.6% did not provide an answer to this question.

When participants were asked if they used a translation guide to complete the survey, 96.9% reported they did not. However, 3.1% of respondents did utilize a translation guide. Of the participants who used guides, one out of five used German (20.8%) and Portuguese (20.4%) translations. One in six used Russian (16.6%) or Spanish (15.3%) translation guides, and 7.3% used Italian guides. A combined 10.9% of participants who used guides utilized the French, Japanese and Dutch translations, or responded they had used Polish or Danish translation guides, even though no official guides had been provided for those two languages. The remaining 8.6% had written in the language of the translation guide they had used or mentioned online tools, people, or other support who helped them to complete the survey.

Happy Ace Week!

Be prepared for some surprises this week! Let's start by sharing some cool stats about the respondents of our 2022 survey!

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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).

Today is the National Coming Out Day.

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

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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).

Today is World Mental Health Day.

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

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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%).

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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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.

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

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