allonormativity

Definitions

The assumption that all human beings are allosexual or alloromantic, i.e. that they experience sexual attraction and/or romantic attraction to other people.

neologism, uncountable

Examples

“Because aces differ⟳ so much, the ideologies of compulsory sexuality, sex normativity, amatonormativity, and even allonormativity will tend⟳ to operate⟳ differently upon different types of aces.”

“The sooner campuses acknowledge asexuality as a sexual identity, the sooner they can begin⟳ examining and addressing the ways they perpetuate allonormativity.”

“In such a context, those who identify⟳ as asexual, inundated as is common by such norms of what we might refer⟳ to as allonormativity, are left, as blogger @theacetheist notes, with only two theses with which to incorrectly regard their existences: “I am not a sexual being, therefore I am not human,” or, alternatively, “I am human, therefore I am a sexual being.””

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