#absexual

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Absexual —

✶ An ace-spec label for individuals who experience no sexual attraction at all. This is to be a more specific label than just asexual, as sometimes that is used for the whole asexual spectrum.

naming: "abs-" (absent), "-sexual" (sexual attraction)

edit: related/synonymous to the term Suptiliasexual

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Absaroace / Absroace —

✶ An aroace-spec label for individuals who experience no romantic or sexual attraction at all. This is to be a more specific label than just aroace, as sometimes that is used for the whole aroace spectrum. A combination label of absromantic and absexual.

naming: "abs-" (absent), "aroace" (aromantic asexual)

edit: related/synonymous to the term Suptiliaroace

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Absexual

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Absexual is a neologism introduced by Carol Queen (cofounder of San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture) for consideration for inclusion in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V - fifth edition) (currently under development, set to be released in 2013);[1] it is not currently an official psychiatric term. Based on its prefix ab-, it describes a form of sexuality where someone is stimulated by moving away from sexuality. An example would be a person who promotes abstinence fervently while getting excited by that, or also through contradictory behaviour where they act in the opposite way in private, contrary to what they promote publicly. In this way, absexuality can be described as a sex-related subset of reaction formation.

The term was first used in Queen's "Dirty Pictures, Heavy Breathing, Moral Outrage, and the New Absexuality," which appears in her Real Live Nude Girl anthology:[2]

“These disparate anti-porn, anti-gay activists unite in the particular form their relationship to sexuality takes.… Their voyeuristic, judgemental peeping on other forms of sex is, in fact, these peoples' sexual orientation.”Betty Dodson defined the term as describing "folks who get off complaining about sex and trying to censor porn."[3]

The term has also been used to refer to feminism in the 1980s, calling it a "neo-Victorian absexual orthodoxy" and criticizing its association of pornography with social ills including abuse, addiction, and hate speech.[4]