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Sexual attraction: What's the difference between romantic attraction and sexual attraction?

Profile: RainStorm226
RainStorm226 on Jul 2, 2015
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Romance is who you want to hug and do "romantic" things with,sexual is who you want to have sex with
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Profile: optimisticKoala39
optimisticKoala39 on Jul 2, 2015
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Romantic attraction seeks affection. Sexual attraction seeks lust/sexual activity. Someone who is romantically attracted would want to be exclusive in some way. Sexual attraction is wrapped in the physical aspect and not much else.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 2, 2015
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Love and lust, two very different things, often mistaken for the same thing. A loving sexual relationship is much different than just a normal sexual relationship when you find each other attractive. It's usually the heat of the moment.
Profile: HushDarling
HushDarling on Jul 3, 2015
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Romantic attraction is a feeling of emotional love. You enjoy the other person's company, personality, and aspects of them that include but are most definitely not limited to physical. Sexual attraction is love exclusively for a person's body. It is also referred to as lust. When sexual and romantic attraction coexist, a healthy partnership is created.
Profile: Whitepawlove
Whitepawlove on Jul 3, 2015
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Romantic attraction is when you want to hold hands, kiss, and go on dates with. Sexual attraction is when you want to have sex with that person.
Profile: CharlotteBanana97
CharlotteBanana97 on Jul 3, 2015
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Romantic attraction is very much what you see on the inside of someone, sexual attraction is wanting to have sex or have sexual relations with someone because of their outer appearance.
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Anonymous on Jul 3, 2015
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Romantic attraction tends to relate to things like hugging, kissing, holding hands, etc. Sexual attraction is sexual acts. Someone could have no interest in sex, but they could still have a romantic attraction to someone. Or it could work the other way round.
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Anonymous on Jul 3, 2015
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Romantic attraction is when you're like, "Wow I wan to date that person." While sexual is, "Wow I wanna have intercourse with this person."
Profile: TheBrightestKitten
TheBrightestKitten on Jul 4, 2015
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Romantic attraction is when you want to date someone and care for them greatly. Sexual attraction usually is more physical. You find them physically attractive. Romantic attraction is about mental attraction as well.
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Anonymous on Jul 4, 2015
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With the first one you feel that being with this person makes you happy and it makes your heart hurt, and the second one makes you to think that you had the necessity of having sex with this person no matter what.
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Anonymous on Jul 4, 2015
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well sexual attraction is portrayt as an attraction from wich you just wish a sexual relation or just sex and the "no strings attached"while the romantic is one that includes the sexual attraction but you expect a relationship, dating, love, comittement (according to how you define commitement ) basicly someone you are willing to build a life with or willing to change yours so you 2 can fuse together
Profile: Hannah1121
Hannah1121 on Jul 4, 2015
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They are often though of as the same thing, but they are not. Sexual attraction is about feeling physically for someone. Romantic attraction is who you would want to date and fall in love with. For example, I could label myself as a homoromantic bisexual if I wanted to. I will only date girls, but I can experience physical attraction to both of the sexes at times.
Profile: NeoBrici
NeoBrici on Jul 4, 2015
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Everyone falls somewhere on a spectrum for each of these two separate feelings, and this can change throughout one's life. Romantic attraction is the feelings of fluff that you get for a person. It's often coupled with sexual attraction, but it's more "I want to marry this person," and "I want to cuddle with this person," and "I want to spend all of my time with this person." Sexual attraction is "I want to make out with this person," and "I want to have sex with this person." Therefore, someone who is sexually attracted to two genders but is romantically attracted to all others is a panromantic bisexual. A person who is only attracted to the same gender is homoromantic and homosexual, and someone who is romantically attracted to a different gender and not sexually attracted to anyone is heteroromantic and asexual.
Profile: ErisXaos6
ErisXaos6 on Jul 5, 2015
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Romantic attraction is attraction to the person as a whole, their personality, unique quirks and talents, and yes even their flaws. You feel like you can relate to this person in a way that is more than just sexual. Sexual attraction is purely a physical attraction to someone and their body, but not the person themselves
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 5, 2015
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I, a pansexual, am romantically attracted to men, and agenders, I am sexually attracted to females and m-f/f-m. Basically I could be in love with a man but still not like the guy part, but I could love a girl and also love that lady part.
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Anonymous on Jul 5, 2015
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It's kind of the same difference as an emotional and a physical feeling. Even though it also differs per person. Do you feel an emotional connection towards someone? Or a physical one? Maybe both, or maybe none.
Profile: Emily619
Emily619 on Jul 5, 2015
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Romantic attraction is the desire to do the things couples do, and sexual attraction is the desire to do more sexual things, that are beyond just being a couple. If you have just a romantic attraction, and not a sexual attraction to people, you would be classified as asexual hetero-romantic, or asexual homo-romantic if it was to the same sex.
Profile: sereneOcean13
sereneOcean13 on Jul 5, 2015
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From experience as a person who generally feels sexual attraction to a person rather than romantic, personally i differ the two by what your wants and desires to the person is. For instance getting excited/happy at the thought of kissing or being sexually intimate with them and wanting to carry out those desires. Whereas romantic attraction falls in fantasizing about possibly taking them on a date or planning a future. For me, sexual attraction is temporary to a person comes and goes quickly but romantic attraction tends to last longer and involves deeper thoughts and feelings.
Profile: peachysunny
peachysunny on Jul 5, 2015
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romantic is felt in your head and heart but sexual is felt in your genatalia romatic is like you want to hug them and tell them how grate they are sexual attraction is you want to have sex with them
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 8, 2015
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A sexual attraction is all about sexuality and attraction to a persons physical state. If you are sexually attracted to someone you are attracted to their looks. A romantic attraction is a mental attraction towards another person.
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