Meaning of A/B/O | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of omegaverse (“subgenre of erotic speculative fiction”).

slang, uncountable

Examples

“Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide⟳ people based on wolf pack⟳ hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).”

“It also harnesses the a/b/o trope to increase⟳ the stakes of intimacy and trust⟳ in the context of sexual encounters, and to intensify descriptions of desire and sexual pleasure.”

“What is interesting is how A/B/O stories explore⟳ these sexual scripts, and how the characters in them negotiate⟳ the disjunctures between the dominant scripts and their desires in their own⟳ lives and interpersonal relationships, […]”

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