Worth noting right away: Sexuality is different from sex or gender identity (for gender-related terms, head right this way). Sexuality is sometimes referred to as "whom you love" as opposed to "who you are" (i.e., gender identity), although that's a bit of an oversimplification. Sexual...
Of course, this is an important dialogue in every relationship, but it’s particularly crucial in a relationship where one partner is asexual and the other is allosexual. “The negotiation becomes harder, because one person is coming in with a very ‘default’ understanding of what [the ...
According to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), “an asexual person is a person who does not experience sexual attraction.”Allosexual, by contrast, is a term used in the asexual community for a person who experiences sexual attraction. (Allo–is a prefix meaning “other.”...
sexual attraction for other peopleis considered allosexual, while people who rarely or never experience sexual attraction are considered gray- or asexual. ... The word was coined by the asexual community to help reduce the assumption that allosexuality is “normal” and asexuality is “abnormal....
This is different from allosexuality, which describes people who commonly experience a primary sexual attraction based on instantly available information, such as a person’s appearance. “We use ‘allosexual’ in a similar way to how we use ‘cisgender’ to mean people who are not transgender...
cultural equity for LGBTQIA+ communities.Dulcinea Alex Pitagora, PhD, LCSW, CST, is a licensed psychotherapist, sex therapist, and sex educator specializing in kink and alternative lifestyles.Martha Tara Lee, DHS, is a clinical sexologist, relationship counselor, and AASECT-certified sexuality educator...
Sexuality and romanticism are tightly connected to adulthood – resulting in kids with non-allocishet identities being told they are too young to know, and many queer identities considered a phase that one will grow out of, and hysterical reactions to teenagers who date or have sex without paren...
Pete Wharmby is committing some basic errors here, as an allosexual autistic. By writing the phrase ‘autistic people are human’, given the context, he makes the classic mistake of conflating sexuality with ‘being human’. This is classic compulsory sexuality. ...
“Libido is the body asking for an orgasm,” she says. “Sexual attraction helps direct that libido toward another person.” Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Sex can also feel good to asexual people, just like it does for allosexual people (those who aren’t asexual). “People who ...
Graysexuality, also known as gray asexuality, gray-ace, grey-ace, or gray-a, is a term people use to describe their sexual attraction. Here's what it means.