For Miscellaneous People
- ______sexual (Insert name of person
you're attracted to: e.g., Davidsexual, Amandasexual, et
cetera)
- Androgynophile (Attracted to
androgyny)
- Androgynosexual (Attracted to
androgyny)
- Androgynotrope (Attracted to
androgyny)
- Asexual
- Aspiring queer
- Autosexual (Relating sexually to
oneself)
- Contingent invert (Freudian term for
people who "under certain external conditions . . . are
capable of taking as their object someone of their own
sex")
- Contingent ______(inclined toward ______
"under certain external conditions")
- Creatively sexual
- Heterospiritual (Identifying with and
supporting heterosexual moral values)
- Homospiritual (Identifying with and
supporting homosexual moral values; term was used in Alice
Walker's essay "All the Bearded Irises of Life:
Confessions of a Homospiritual")
- Hormosexual (This is a typo we found on
the internet and reappropriated because we found it
charming.)
- Humansexual
- Latent
- Latent ______ (Insert a label that you
potentially may become)
- Metaphysical
- Metasensual
- Metasexual (Beyond sexual)
- Multifactorial (Having or produced by a
variety of elements)
- Multifunctional
- Multilateral (Having many sides, or
particpated in by two or more parties)
- Multilayered
- Multilingual (Literally: "speaking
more than one language")
- Multinomial (Having more than one
name)
- Multipotentiate (Having multiple
potentials)
- Multispectral (Literally: "relating
to two or more ranges of frequencies or wavelengths in the
electromagnetic spectrum")
- Multistage (Occuring in
stages)
- Multiuser (See "polyamorous"
below)
- Multivalent (Having many values,
meanings, or appeals)
- Multivariate (Involving involving more
than one independent statistical variable)
- Nonconformist
- Nonsexual
- Open-minded
- Political lesbian (Used by the
lesbian-feminist movement in the 1970s to refer to a woman who
either chose to be a lesbian for feminist reasons, OR who chose
to stop dating men and politically align herself with
lesbian-feminist activists without necessarily developing
feelings of sexual attraction toward women)
- Polychrome (Literally:
"multicolored")
- Polymorph (Something having many forms
or appearances)
- Polyphasic (Something having two or more
phases)
- Potential ______ (Insert a label that
you potentially may become)
- Quester
- Questioner
- Questioning
- Sexually disoriented
- Sexually independent
- Situational heterosexual
- Situational homosexual
- Situationally sexual
- Tortillero (Mexican word literally
meaning "tortilla maker," in reference to the way
tortillas are slapped back and forth between the hands; refers to
a man who likes to be penetrated and also to penetrate; or to any
man or woman who likes to be in the middle of a ménage
à trois)
- Trysexual (Used to indicate that one is
experimenting with one's sexuality)
- Vertebrate (Literally, "having a
spine"; indicates that one has in some way diverged from the
monogamous heterosexual gender-conformist norm; used in reference
to the fact that such divergence both requires courage and builds
further courage, whereas being a monogamous heterosexual
gender-conformist requires and builds relatively little
courage)
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