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English
Etymology
From ace (“asexual”) + -phobe.
Noun
acephobe (plural acephobes)
- A person who has a negative perception of asexuals and/or asexuality.
- Hypernym: aphobe
2018 November 1, Claire Dwyer, “Asexual Awareness Week”, in The Scripps Voice, page 5:This is at the root of our oppression, that we are seen to be broken and then sometimes rejected by acephobes in the very community that is supposed to protect and love us, in the context of a world which feels like it doesn't always view us as fully "human."
2022, Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture, page 23:It's a deep, shared denial among acephobes that creates the insistence that asexuality cannot or should not exist, and that it must therefore be "fixed" by them.
2023, Michele Kirichanskaya, Ace Notes: Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World, page 15:No book on how to navigate coming out as ace, or what to do after encountering an acephobe.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:acephobe.