Sensualarian: Someone who “blurs” the lines between romantic, platonic, sensual, and sexual relationships. There is no “clear, cut” distinguishing mark between the variety of types of attraction. For example: You might have a “girlfriend” by traditional standards, but you feel that they provide more than just a romantic partnership.
Ideal for individuals who feel that they have the emotional capacity to love numerous individuals at once, but don’t feel “polyamorous” is a good fit for them, or individuals who feel like “traditional” relationship terms (girlfriend, best friend, friends with benefits, etc.) are not too “rigid” to describe their own feelings and relationships.
Pronounced: “sen-shul-air-e-an”
"What's the difference between Relationship Anarchy and Sensualarian?"
There’s a school of belief behind relationship anarchists that monogamy marriages are not okay, that they do not allow a person to live life ‘to the fullest’. While not all relationship anarchists might believe this, it is a prominent school of thought within the community. Sensualarians don’t follow this belief system.
The person who coined sensualarian crafted the term because in their personal experience, they’ve had relationships that were never “officially” established, but to the common eye, they appeared to be official romantic couples.
Relationship anarchy started officially in the polyamorous community but has since expanded since then. When Sensualarian was crafted, the individual felt like polyamorous wasn’t quite the ‘best fitting’ term.
Relationship anarchists don’t follow traditional/stereotypical relationships. Sensualarians have relationships that are often “between” typical relationships (for example: a sensualarian might be engaged, but feel like they might as well be married because of how their relationship is). A sensualarian might have a close friend (or someone they like) where no one “officially” says “hey, we are girlfriend/boyfriend” (whatever term fits for the bf/gf deal), but they treat each other like a boyfriend or girlfriend does (hold hands, go out together and lean on each other, etc.).
Term coined by: lgbtrainbowdolls
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The pinkish/salmon color: love
Gray: the blurring between the “official” types of relationships
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Gray: blur the lines between romance, sexual, platonic, etc.
Pink and blue: capable of attraction for femininity and masculinity
Purple: capable of attraction for nonbinary individuals
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