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English
Etymology
From allo- + normativity.
Noun
allonormativity (uncountable)
- (neologism) The assumption that all human beings are allosexual or alloromantic, i.e. that they experience sexual attraction and/or romantic attraction to other people.
- 2015, Laura, "Asexual community politics and sex aversion", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 2, January 2015, page 18:
- Because aces differ so much, the ideologies of compulsory sexuality, sex normativity, amatonormativity, and even allonormativity will tend to operate differently upon different types of aces.
2019, Amanda L. Mollett, Brian Lackman, “Asexual Student Invisibility and Erasure in Higher Education: 'I Thought I Was the Only One'”, in Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Devika Dibya Choudhuri, Jason L. Taylor, editors, Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts: Identity, Policies, and Campus Climate, unnumbered page:The sooner campuses acknowledge asexuality as a sexual identity, the sooner they can begin examining and addressing the ways they perpetuate allonormativity.
2019, Constance Bougie, “Pink Gauze, Cold Spirits: Asexual Criticism and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway”, in Oshkosh Scholar, volume 14, Oshkosh: University of Wisconsin, page 99:In such a context, those who identify as asexual, inundated as is common by such norms of what we might refer to as allonormativity, are left, as blogger @theacetheist notes, with only two theses with which to incorrectly regard their existences: “I am not a sexual being, therefore I am not human,” or, alternatively, “I am human, therefore I am a sexual being.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:allonormativity.
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