Tom's 26. He's a virgin. He's never fallen in love. And that's unlikely to ever change.

He doesn't like touching people and finds a lot of music "soppy". Sex scenes in films are a pointless interruption of the plot.

"I was brought up in the traditional 'you're not expected to have sex until marriage family'," he says.

It was only when he was 22 that he realised that he was what he calls "an aromantic asexual".

An asexual is someone who does not experience sexual attraction.

Tom says being an "aromantic" means he's never fallen in love with anyone - and doesn't expect to.

"If you think of sexual orientation as who you want to have sex with, romantic orientation is who you want to fall in love with.

"From what I know about it, falling in love doesn't seem like it would be very pleasant - it seems like it would be kind of awkward," he says.

The former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath has been described as "completely asexual" by a close friend, following historical child sexual abuse claims against him.

The friend said there was "never felt a whiff of sexuality about Ted Heath, whether it was in relation to women, men or children".

It's not a term everyone understands, and Tom says that makes it harder "to come out".

"My family don't really understand and they don't really want to talk about it, but some of my friends know.

"A gay person just has to mention their boyfriend and it would be obvious they are gay. It's harder if you're asexual."

As a teenager, Tom didn't realise he was asexual - even when his friends talked about fancying people.

Sometimes it makes me feel sad - it's worst for me when I'm ill and I'm stuck in the apartment on my own, it would be nice to have someone then. Tom

"There's sexual attraction where you want to have sex with someone, and romantic attraction where you want to have a romantic relationship" he explains.

"But there's also aesthetic attraction - where you think someone looks pleasant, in the same way a sunset looks pleasant, and that was what I experienced.

"I didn't realise I was experiencing it in a different way to everyone else," he says.

Tom realised he was asexual after reading an article on reddit when he was 22, although he says it took him a few weeks before he was "ready to admit it".

"Things began to make sense, things like why people were so massively obsessed with the opposite sex when I wasn't.

"At university there was loads of stuff about sexual health being pushed at you from all angles - whereas to me this wasn't even on my radar as anything relevant to me.

"I assumed my experience was the majority and the people who were sleeping with people all the time were the minority - whereas its probably the other way round.

He's always been single and thinks he's unlikely to ever have a girlfriend.

He says he would like a long-term partner but "it's one of those things - it just seems so unlikely that I don't really feel like I'm in a position to want it - like becoming an astronaut".

"Sometimes it makes me feel sad - it's worst for me when I'm ill and I'm stuck in the apartment on my own, it would be nice to have someone then.

"If you look at elderly couples who clearly love each other a lot, but they are not in love and probably not sexually attracted to each other anymore - I'd almost like to skip the first part of the relationship and go to that."

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