zedsexual
English edit
Etymology edit
From zed + -sexual as a play on asexual, since the sexuality falls on the other side of the sexual spectrum from asexuality, as the letters "A" and "Z" are on opposite ends of the alphabet.[1]
Adjective edit
zedsexual (comparative more zedsexual, superlative most zedsexual)
- (neologism) Not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others.
- Synonyms: allosexual, sexual
- Antonym: asexual
- 2015, "Omnes et Nihil", "Situating This Zine & The Ace Sex Wars", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 3, June 2015, page 5:
- Most significantly, it was a time before zedsexual people started (en masse) appropriating ace educational materials and mainstream ace discourse to perpetrate and/or justify anti-ace sexual coercion and rape […]
- 2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT, unnumbered page:
- But what about people who don't feel completely asexual or zedsexual?
- 2019, Jo Teut, "Integrating Asexuality: A is for Asexual in LGBTQIA+", New Directions for Community Colleges, Winter 2019, page 96:
- Both asexual and zedsexual (non-asexual) people tend to experience different attractions on a spectrum of intensity, from none ever to all the attraction all the time, with many different nuanced levels in between.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:zedsexual.
References edit
- ^ Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, unnumbered page