Terminology Poll

[greenchestnuts]

Hi everyone,

After a lot of discussion in the Tumblr asexual communities, I've created a poll trying to get some feedback on preferences for a term for people who aren't asexual, demisexual, or grey-asexual. The link to the poll, and a brief explanation of why it is necessary, is here at my Tumblr. Even though this project came out of things on one particular social media site, I'm hoping to get a wide cross-section of responses from across the Internet, so I'm sharing it here.

Thanks!

Comments

[notthemarimba]

I am also deeply curious on this point. Nobody on tumblr has ever been able to point me to a cogent argument as to why "sexual" is a bad option. The only argument I've seen on tumblr is that it makes it sound like the person is all about sex, which doesn't hold any water to me.

[bubbleblower]

I think the whole point of this community is that we tend to be, on average, less about sex than the general population. So "Sexual" might be the best term for the ones who are not us.

Brainstorming a bit:

If you want a different term, maybe we should use something other than "___sexual". Maybe "sex-centered" or "genital-oriented" or something?

Or maybe we need something analogous to the word "vanilla" as used in the kink communities, such as "standard" or "erotypical"?

Something like "erotypical" would differentiate them from those of us who feel erotic attraction that is not based on a desire for coitus or other genital-oriented sex.

Mischievous thought: "McSexual", indicating willingness to take whatever comes off the assembly line?

[notthemarimba]

If the issue with "sexual" is that it reduces people to being all about sex, how on earth would "sex-centered" or "genital-oriented" be any better?

Also, "McSexual" seems very dismissive of people who do experience sexual attraction as consumers and predators...