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romantic orientations
noun
Plural of romantic orientation
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Asexuals are able to be romantically attracted, and can identify with many different romantic orientations (panromantic, biromantic, hetero-romantic, homoromantic, lithromantic, sapioromantic, etc).
Why should minority sexual and romantic orientations have to fit into strict criteria?
But if young people felt free to explore sexual and romantic orientations (which today's teenagers and young adults in college often do), they would not need to suppress their innate sexuality and could come out earlier rather than later.
"The lack of sexual attraction is just as much an important part of the sexuality spectrum as the rest of the LGBTQ community's sexual and romantic orientations," Aaron says, but he notes that even some within the LGBTQ community don't understand, or hold contempt for, asexual people.
Some people advocate the term "minority sexual and gender identities" (MSGI, coined in 2000), or gender and sexual minorities (GSM) so as to explicitly include all people who are not cisgender and heterosexual, or gender, sexual, and romantic minorities (GSRM) which is more explicitly inclusive of minority romantic orientations and polyamory, but those have not been widely adopted either.
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Should people really define their romantic orientation so early in life?
To understand this, we first must understand that sexual orientation and romantic orientation are two disparate entities.
But most people don't know that beyond sexual orientation, there's a thing called romantic orientation as well.
I am amazed that anyone would be concerned about the sexual and romantic orientation of any imaginary figure.
For gay and straight alike, behavior follows from one's sexual and romantic orientation, which is based on emotions.
I didn't see my skin colour here, I didn't see my gender identity here, I didn't see my romantic orientation here.
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