On Allosexism

superacespace:

Allosexual is a word, most probably made by the ace community, to describe someone who isn’t asexual.

It was created most likely due to the fact a lot of non-ace SJ tumblr uses REALLY HATED us using the word ‘sexual’ to describe them.

As in ‘we’re asexual, you’re sexual’

But they took that to mean we were slut-shaming (?) them and acting as if we thought they were 100% sexual 100% of the time and couldn’t get sex off the brain or something. We actually just needed a word to use because ‘non-asexual’ sounds dumb.

So, some smartypants comes up with allosexual, which sounds pretty cool. It doesn’t have any amoeba connotations either (lucky allosexuals). HOWEVER, allosexual is not the opposite of asexual like ‘cis’ is the opposite of ‘trans’. ‘Allo’ is the opposite of ‘auto’. Allosexual means having sexual attraction outside of themselves, autosexual means only having sexual attraction for yourself (and it was used to described asexuals who masturbated, but it’s kind of a stupid word).

Overall, I think it’s a good word to use. It’s pretty nice, can be shortened to ‘allo’, and doesn’t sound derogatory. But I have yet to see anyone outside of the ace community use it so I’m unsure how well people would accept it. Which is strange, considering the way the SJ community denounces cis people who dislike the term ‘cisgender’ because of whatever reason, saying that as a majority they shouldn’t be offended to the name given to them. So, all non-asexuals, I hope you like the name allosexual, it’s very nice and isn’t meant to be mean or derogatory and is just there to reference people out of the ace spectrum. You don’t need to actively identify as it, just acknowledge it as a reference word.

Ok thank you (u v u@)

If I messed up anything here please tell me and I’ll fix is thank you.

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  6. whatistigerbalm reblogged this from pilferingapples and added:
    “it can be shortened to ‘allo’” …….
  7. bold-sartorial-statement reblogged this from shirozora and added:
    Works for me.
  8. azurelunatic reblogged this from shirozora and added:
    Allosexual sounds like a fine word, and less gender-binary-loaded/queerness-disclosing to describe myself than...
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    given that in the asexual community there have literally been instances of ace people telling non-ace survivors that “on...
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    Oh sweet carp, I LOVE “Allosexual”. It makes it sound like my sexuality is a giant carnivorous dinosaur.Thank you, Aces,...
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    Actually, the term “allosexual” refers to a sexuality that isn’t heterosexual; etymologically, the prefix “allo” in this...
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    Going back four pages on harm’s blog has convinced me to use an acronym instead of consexual/allosexual/sexual/et al....
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    I pretty sure I am sexual.
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    That’s cool. But also we sexual people who are (supposedly at least?) in the somewhat privileged majority could also...
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