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Aversexual alt flag!

Aversexual - a label for when one feels an amount of sexual attraction they deem significant, but has a sex stance that does not align with it. For example, an allosexual person who is sex-repulsed may want to use this label!

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Flag by me. Averromantic, Averrose, and Aver- with more types of attraction to follow! Tagging @radiomogai.

Here is the link to the original coining post.

More saturated flags below the cut:

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coining a label for my orientation because I can't find it anywhere

As the title says, I am going to make my own label for my orientation. I have found labels that are close, but there are always extra pieces of information that don't really describe me. I know that you don't have to fit a label exactly to use it, but I think this will give me peace.

Aversexual - A label for when you experience a significant amount of sexual attraction, but have feelings towards sex that do not align with this attraction. This could be anything you feel fits this definition, but some examples include feeling neutral, averse, repulsed, etc!

Etymology: Aver (from averse) + sexual

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Averromantic - A label for when you experience a significant amount of romantic attraction, but you have feelings towards romance that do not align with this attraction. This could be anything you feel fits this definition, but some examples include feeling neutral, averse, repulsed, etc!

Etymology: Aver (from averse) + romantic

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Averaroace / Averrose - A label for when you experience a significant amount of romantic and sexual attraction, but have feelings towards sex and romance that do not align with this attraction. This could be anything you feel fits this definition, but some examples include feeling neutral, averse, repulsed, etc!

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Etymology: Aver (from averse) + aro + ace,

or Aver + ro (from romantic) + se (from sexual)

I only made these three flags, but the prefix aver- can be applied to any type of attraction!