He says his findings suggest that many asexual people are not aromantic.
2011, Kishan Kirkwood, "Just average", The Sun (Blenheim, New Zealand), 12 January 2011, page 8:
Anyone with a choice would need their head read to want to get kicked out of home, lose support (financial and emotional) from parents, be left with only my friends and minimal possessions, and then have to watch the love of your life become an aromantic asexual and lose all contact because of overwhelming homophobic behaviour.
Although there are aromantic asexuals who do not experience the instinctual emotional need to be in a romantic relationship, many asexuals seek monogamous partners and value intimate connections just like sexual people.
2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
However, if she [Emily Brontë] was asexual, she likely was not aromantic (see chapter 2 for distinction between sex and romance), or at least she had a high-level understanding of romance, as she wrote one of the most intensely romantic novels of her time, Wuthering Heights.
'I let it slip one time at work that I’m an asexual aromantic [an asexual who is also not interested in making romantic attachments], and they think it’s absolutely hysterical,’ says Jean Wilson, a sales assistant and 63-year-old grandmother from Banbury. 'One of the women I work with said, “I don’t think you’ve met the right man yet.” I said: “Trish, I’m 63. If I haven’t met him by now I don’t think I’m going to.”’