Asexuals were seen as the least human, as both animalistic and mechanistic, and were believed to have the fewest “uniquely human” and “human nature” traits among all sexualities included in the study. Asexual people are accustomed to hearing dehumanizing rationalizations for why asexuality either cannot possibly exist or for why asexuals are deviant, with variations on the claims that asexuality “goes against (human) nature” or that “sex is what makes us human.”
