Is there a label for someone who must be sexually attracted to someone before they can be romantically attracted to them? I.e. sexual attraction is a requirement for romantic attraction.
I haven’t heard of one, but it’s possible that it’s a form of idemromantic? (meaning platonic and romantic attraction are felt in the same way and the person labels them as platonic or romantic based on outside factors). It might be that one of said person’s deciding factors is sexual attraction. (Message me if you want to talk more, this is pretty similar to how I identify with the idemromantic label).
Maybe I’m just a dumbo, but it wouldn’t let me message you, either :c I like never use tumblr, but it said the URL couldn’t be found or something. Anyway, thanks for your response. I do feel that way about platonic and romantic being basically the same thing, and whether I label them either is based on outside factors. And it’s pretty much solely based of sexual attraction. I mean, I don’t know for sure because I just started thinking about it, but I recognize it’s something I’ve felt at least a little bit for a while. And, now that I’m getting to know myself better, my romantic and sexual attractions become more clear and stable all the time, and sexual attraction feels like the only prerequisite to feeling romantically attracted to someone. It’s like there is personal attraction, which I can for anyone, and then that combined with sexual attraction is what I call romantic attraction. I think I just want to identify as romantically queer because it feels so complicated the more I think about it XD
