/u/GoingFeralOutHere on Can we stop saying allosexual?

I always though of allosexual as being less an antonym of asexual, and more a place holder kind of term for any sexuality that isn't asexual/ace spectrum.

Allosexual= "_______sexual"= heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, etc etc- a word that can stand in place for any of this type of sexual orientation.

Asexual= The term for the asexual orientation, and also usually the term for the umbrella or spectrum of asexual orientations/identities. A word used both like allosexual, but also like one would use terms like heterosexual or bisexual, as a specific orientation label term.

Basically, all not-asexual-sexual orientations have an over arching term to describe them that isn't also already a term for any single on of those orientations: allosexual. We don't have an asexual equivalent to the word allosexual other than asexual. So far, we've gone with the term asexual to both describe the orientation asexual, as well as using it as the over arching term to describe all orientations within what we call the asexual or ace spectrum. This has long been a point of confusion and endless debate, and I don't really have any strong arguments regarding it because it's not the biggest deal, and I don't really have anything to add that hasn't been hashed out already.

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PS FYI:

If you are within the asexual or ace spectrum or whatever you want to call that grouping, you have every right to consider yourself asexual and use the term asexual to identify yourself and that is valid. It's basically all the same shit in the grand scheme of things imo

March 01, 2023 at 12:17AM