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Overall this group showed a normal amount of desire for sexual relationships, but a disproportionately low capacity to achieve them. | Overall this group showed a normal amount of desire for sexual relationships, but a disproportionately low capacity to achieve them. | ||
===44.6% of high functioning adult autistic men remain virgins, despite high sex/relationship drive=== | |||
A group of high functioning autistic men and women were evaluated and compared with healthy controls to assess their sexual and relationship desires and success/failure to achieve those desires.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789215/ | |||
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44.6% of autistic men were found to still virgins among a sample with the average age being 35.7 years. | |||
Autistic men were found to masturbate more and have a greater desire for a relationship than normal neurotypical (NT) men. However, only 16% of autistic men were in a relationship while 82% of NT men were in a relationship. NT men were 5x more likely to be in a relationship than their autistic counterparts. | |||
Autism did not so greatly reduce women's ability to find relationships with men, as 46% of women were able to have relationships, while only 16% of men were. | |||
This is likely due to the fact that autism reduces an individual's capacity for emotional interaction, but normal men crave emotional interaction less than normal women, so this will disproportionately impair an autistic man's attempts to find a relationship vs. an autistic woman's. | |||
Autistic men were also burdened with a dramatically greater number of paraphilias which are considered "socially taboo". These paraphilias which appear to be part of their disease state can only be imagined to make their difficulties in finding sexual and romantic success more difficult. | |||
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* ''Male ASD participants reported more frequent masturbation than male healthy controls (HCs) (P<0.01). '' | |||
* ''ASD men reported a greater sexual desire for sexual intercourse than their HC counterparts (P<0.05, Table III). '' | |||
* ''Of the individuals with ASD, significantly more women (n=18; 46.2%) than men (n=9; 16.1%) were currently in a relationship '' | |||
== Extreme Male Brain Theory == | == Extreme Male Brain Theory == | ||