Editing Intimate relationship (section)

==== Asexuality ====
Some asexual people engage in intimate relationships that are solely emotionally intimate, but other asexual people's relationships involve sex as part of negotiations with non-asexual partners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Understanding the Asexual Community |url=https://www.hrc.org/resources/understanding-the-asexual-community |access-date=2023-11-17 |website=Human Rights Campaign |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Chasin-2015">{{Cite journal |last=Chasin |first=CJ DeLuzio |date=2015 |title=Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.2203 |journal=Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology |language=en |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=167–180 |doi=10.1002/casp.2203 |issn=1052-9284|url-access=subscription }}</ref> A 2019 study of sexual minority individuals in the United States found that while asexual individuals were less likely to have recently had sex, they did not differ from non-asexual participants in rates of being in an intimate relationship.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rothblum |first1=Esther D. |last2=Krueger |first2=Evan A. |last3=Kittle |first3=Krystal R. |last4=Meyer |first4=Ilan H. |date=2020-02-01 |title=Asexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Population-Based Study of Sexual Minorities |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01485-0 |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |language=en |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=757–767 |doi=10.1007/s10508-019-01485-0 |issn=1573-2800 |pmc=7059692 |pmid=31214906}}</ref> Asexual individuals face stigma and the pathologization of their sexual orientation,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hille |first=Jessica J. |date=2023-02-01 |title=Beyond sex: A review of recent literature on asexuality |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22002378 |journal=Current Opinion in Psychology |volume=49 |pages=101516 |doi=10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101516 |pmid=36495711 |s2cid=253534170 |issn=2352-250X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and report difficulty navigating assumptions about sexuality in the dating scene.<ref name="Chasin-2015" /> Various terms including "[[queerplatonic relationship]]" and "squish" (a non-sexual crush) have been used by the asexual community to describe non-sexual intimate relationships and desires.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fine |first=Julia Coombs |date=2023 |title=From crushes to squishes: Affect and agency on r/ AskReddit and r/ Asexual |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jls.22004.fin |journal=Journal of Language and Sexuality |language=en |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=145–172 |doi=10.1075/jls.22004.fin |s2cid=259866691 |issn=2211-3770|url-access=subscription }}</ref>