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allosexual

adj
/ˌæloʊˈsɛkʃuəl/

Etymology

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

  1. borrowed from sexuālis
  2. prefixed as allosexual — “allo- + sexual”

Definitions

  1. Experiencing sexual attraction

    Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

    • Gray-asexual [denotes] a person who is somewhere between 100% asexual and allosexual; they might only experience sexual attraction on very rare occasions, […]
    • Sexual assault is alarmingly common, yet most victims still identify as heterosexual, cisgender and allosexual (the opposite of asexual) after the trauma. Being sexual assaulted did not make me asexual, […]

  2. LGB

    LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.

    • Yet we later learn that Diana Baring already knew the secret — whether being “half—caste" references being lower-caste with “black blood” (more than a racial marker) or being transsexual, homosexual, or allosexual.

  3. Directed toward or involving another person rather than (only) oneself.

    • Allosexual behavior peaked during the follicular phase for both heterosexual women and lesbians.
    • Allosexual behavior was positively related to libido, and negatively related to positive and "premenstrual" emotional factors. Autosexual behavior was predicted by libido and an energetic / creative emotional factor.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Involving or directed at the other biological sex

      Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.

      • […] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.

    2. One who experiences sexual attraction

      One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.

      • […] that is par for the course of being any form of queer-identified. But it also allows allies and allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) to push out asexual and aromantic-identified individuals.
      • A chart of the Ace Spectrum: the different possibilities for asexuals, demisexuals, and allosexuals.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for allosexual. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA