Citations:zedsexual

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Adjective: "(neologism) not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others"[edit]

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  • 2015, Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, unnumbered page:
    Other attempts to establish a name for the majority include allosexual (prefix allo- means "other"), consexual, monosexual (a term meaning "attracted to one gender," used in contrast to those who are attracted to more than one), alisexual, *sexual, and even zedsexual (like a reference to the opposite end of the alphabet from asexual), but none of these are universally accepted as of this writing.
  • 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?
  • 2018, Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
    There is presently heated debate in asexual communities around the term allosexual, due to its usage and origins within sexology research and thus its connections to norms and violences. In response, activists have offered zedsexual as a corresponding term.
  • 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.

Noun: "(neologism) a person who is zedsexual"[edit]

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  • 2019, Jo Teut, "Asexuality, the Internet, and the Changing Lexicon of Sexuality", in Sexuality and Translation in World Politics (eds. Caroline Cottet & Manuela Lavinas Picq), page 91:
    Mixed relationships between asexual and zedsexuals can be difficult, but this spectrum, as well as other ways to categorise the sexual identity, will hopefully enable productive conversations.