Difference between revisions of "Romantic orientation"

From AVENwiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(aka affectional orientation)
m
Line 1: Line 1:
'''Romantic orientation''' (also occasionally called '''affectional orientation''') refers to an individual's pattern of romantic attraction to men, women, neither gender, either gender, or another gender. For many [[Sexual|sexuals]], their romantic orientation and their sexual orientation are in alignment, so the gender(s) of the people they fall in love with are also the gender(s) they are sexually attracted to. For an [[Asexuality|asexual]], who does not experience sexual attraction, it is their romantic orientation that determines which gender(s), if any, they  are inclined to form romantic [[relationships]] with. A person may be aromantic or romantic, or somewhere in between.
+
'''Romantic orientation''' (also occasionally called '''affectional orientation''') refers to an individual's pattern of romantic attraction based on a person's gender. For many [[Sexual|sexuals]], their romantic orientation and their sexual orientation are in alignment, so the gender(s) of the people they fall in love with are also the gender(s) they are sexually attracted to. For an [[Asexuality|asexual]], who does not experience sexual attraction, it is their romantic orientation that determines which gender(s), if any, they  are inclined to form romantic [[relationships]] with. A person may be aromantic or romantic, or somewhere in between.
  
  

Revision as of 19:14, 20 February 2012

Romantic orientation (also occasionally called affectional orientation) refers to an individual's pattern of romantic attraction based on a person's gender. For many sexuals, their romantic orientation and their sexual orientation are in alignment, so the gender(s) of the people they fall in love with are also the gender(s) they are sexually attracted to. For an asexual, who does not experience sexual attraction, it is their romantic orientation that determines which gender(s), if any, they are inclined to form romantic relationships with. A person may be aromantic or romantic, or somewhere in between.


Romantic orientation
Aromantic · Biromantic · Demiromantic · Gray-romantic · Heteroromantic · Homoromantic · Lithromantic · Panromantic · WTFromantic
Category:Orientations