Describes any individual whose sexual orientation falls somewhere between asexuality and allosexuality. ⇨ Grey Asexual: Also gray asexual, grey-asexual, gray-asexual, or any of these forms with the “ace” abbreviation. The second form is frequently directed towards young asexual and aromantic spectrum people. ⇨ Erasure: This can refer both to passive exclusion (especially from popular culture and media), and to active denial of an identity. ⇨ Demisexual: A person who only experiences sexual attraction after a strong emotional connection is established. ⇨ Demiromantic: A person who only experiences romantic attraction after a strong emotional connection is established. ⇨ Crush: Feeling romantic (and sometimes, but not always, also sexual) attraction towards a person. ⇨ Compulsory Sexuality: The idea that a romantic relationship requires both partners to be sexually available, and that a (usually heterosexual) sexual relationship is an important goal for all people. ⇨ Cishet: An abbreviation for “cisgender, heterosexual, and heteroromantic”. ⇨ Chastity: Used in both religious and kink communities to describe abstinence from sex or certain sex acts. ⇨ Celibacy: The choice to abstain from all sexual activity, regardless of attraction. ⇨ Bogaert, Anthony: Author of a great deal of the current available scientific literature about asexuality. ⇨ AVEN: The most well-known forum for asexual spectrum people. “ Ace-spectrum” or “ ace spectrum” are common variants. ⇨ Asexuality Spectrum: A collective term to encompass all individuals whose sexuality is more closely related to asexuality than to allosexual identities, and who identify with asexual experiences. ⇨ Asexuality: A sexual orientation characterized by not experiencing sexual attraction. ⇨ Asexual: Someone who does not experience sexual attraction. ⇨ Aromantic Spectrum: A collective term encompassing all individuals whose romantic orientation is more closely related to an aromantic identity than an alloromantic identity, and who identify with aromantic experiences. ⇨ Aromantic: Both the romantic orientation characterized by not experiencing romantic attraction, and an adjective used to describe these people. ⇨ Amatonormativity: The idea that (generally monogamous) romantic relationships should be an ultimate life goal of all people, and that these relationships have more intrinsic worth than other relationships. ⇨ Allosexual: Someone who experiences sexual attraction. It is possible to be allosexual but not alloromantic. ⇨ Alloromantic: Someone who experiences romantic attraction. It is possible to be alloromantic but not allosexual. ⇨ Allo: Generally used to refer to someone who is both allosexual and alloromantic, although in some contexts it may refer specifically to allosexual or alloromantic people. ⇨ Aesthetic Attraction: Appreciation for someone’s looks, which may be accompanied by other forms of attraction, but is not always. A Glossary of Asexual and Aromantic-Related Terms
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