List of asexual spectrum sexual orientations
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Asexuality is a sexual orientation defined as having little or no sexual attraction to other people.[1] Asexuality is also a blanket term, known as the asexual spectrum, that contains various variants of asexuality.[2] It is the counterpart of aromanticism.
Sexual orientations
- Gray asexuality – orientation in between allosexual and asexual[2]
- Demisexuality – orientation not feeling sexual attraction until developing an emotional bond[3]
- Aceflux – sexual orientation fluctuating within the asexual spectrum[4]
- Fraysexuality – (a.k.a. ignotasexuality) only feeling sexual attraction towards strangers and acquaintances and less sexual attraction towards people whom knowing well, and the opposite of demisexual[5]
- Cupiosexuality – desiring a sexual relationship but not feeling sexual attraction[6]
- Caligosexuality – feeling weak sexual attraction, comparingly to vapor, fog, or mist[7][clarification needed]
- Orchidsexuality – feeling sexual attraction but not desiring a sexual relationship, and the opposite of cupiosexual[8]
- Quoisexuality – orientation of being unsure if one experiences sexual attraction[5]
- Reciprosexuality – orientation feeling sexual attraction towards people who feel sexual attraction towards one first,[5] and the opposite of lithosexual
- Lithosexuality – (a.k.a. lithsexual or akoisexual) orientation feeling sexual attraction but not wanting it reciprocated[5]
- Placiosexuality – desiring to provide sexual acts but not to receive sexual acts, and the opposite of accipiosexuality[5]
- Fictosexuality – feeling exclusive sexual attraction to fictional characters[9][10][5]
- Accipiosexuality – (a.k.a. iamvanosexuality) desiring to receive sexual acts but not give them[5]
- Aegosexuality – (a.k.a. autochorissexualism) experiences sexual arousal, enjoys sexual content, masturbation, or sexual fantasies, but does not desire sexual activity[5][11]
- Autosexuality – orientation feeling sexual attraction towards oneself[12][13]
- Apothisexuality – orientation when one is asexual and sex-repulsed[5][14]
- Caedsexuality – orientation when one was allosexual but now asexual due to trauma[5][14]
- Requissexuality – orientation not feeling sexual attraction due to emotional exhaustion[14]